Aitham (JK), Oct 14 (PTI) The Jammu Tourism Department is preparing to give the region's skies a new identity by introducing commercial paragliding near here by early next year.

The project is also a story of personal courage and empowerment led by Dolly Sharma, the only woman pilot among the 20 trainees preparing to fly professionally.

Aitham is a paragliding location near Jammu that has undergone trials and is being developed by the tourism department to boost adventure tourism. The take-off point is about 19 km from Jammu city and the landing zone is the sand bed of the Sardhan stream. The trial flight is approximately four minutes.

"This is the only site that is recommended for paragliding and we want to operationalise it in the next five to six months before the end of the current

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