Empyrean Skyview Projects has big plans for the future. In the next five years, the company plans to develop four-six gondola projects worth 875 crore (108. mill euros) and will fund the projects through internal and external sources.

The first two projects would be located in Mussoorie and Yamunotri.

Further project plans are along the Maa Chandi Devi temple and Kedarnath Temple, Gurudwara Hemkund Sahib, and the Shankaracharya and Shivkhori temples in Jammu and Kashmir, besides a ropeway at Varanasi.

These cable cars are supposed to boost the economy and ease traffic and congestion.

“There is no hard and fast rule, but a ropeway acts as a central asset and catalyst for overall tourism development of a region,” said Syed Junaid Altaf, managing director, Empyrean.

In addition, the Dehradun-Mussoorie project will be India’s longest passenger aerial mono-cable ropeway, covering 5.5 km, and among the top five globally as the livemint e-paper reports.

Empyrean Skyview Projects was launched in 2014 and is a wholly-owned subsidiary of FIL Industries, a diversified business group with interests in agriculture, food and beverages, and hospitality.