Bhopal, Apr 6: To enlist State in the tourism map of the world, Madhya Pradesh Eco-tourism Development Board (MPEDB) is working on about fifty new eco-tourism projects across the state. MPEDB is an autonomous organisation working under the State's Forest Department.

The Board has planned to promote, organise and develop eco-tourism site that come under the forest department in the state. The Board's contentment is to acquire buildings and facilitate them with tented accommodations, toilet complexes and cafeterias near such tourist sites. The Board will take up accommodations, which are close to the sites.

Besides, plan is to provide training to the locals to the local population who will work like guides in the Board's identified locations, informed a Board member.

This would generate employment opportunities to the locals who will be involved in hospitality and look after the sites.

The guide courses to such locals would be imparted by Madhya Pradesh Tourism Development Corporation (MPTDC) and Archeological Survey of India (ASI), he added.