Staff Reporter
Mingora
A large group of notables and locals lauded Samsons Group of Companies for its billions of rupees investment to restore tourism and provide job opportunities to youth in Swat valley. Addressing a press conference here, they said the company started investing in the area in 2014 when no other investor was willing due to the security threats.
The company has helped restored the tourism in the area with its investment. They were of the view that the company had restored the chair lift, hotels and other facilities in Malam Jabba which in return attracted thousands of local and foreign tourists, providing jobs to thousands of locals. The notables said that there were around 1,600 hotels in the Swat valley and they all remained fully booked during the winter, contributing a handsome amount in the local economy and the country’s revenue through the taxes.
They rejected the allegations leveled by some locals about illegal occupation of the land in the Green Valley and added that all the locals were paid as per agreement with the Samsons Company and then the land was handed over for commercial use. They said that all legal documents of the land transferred to the company were available.
