PIONEER EDGE NEWS SERVICE/ Uttarkashi
While inaugurating the final day’s programme of the three-day Devbhoomi Rajat Utsav, organised to mark the silver jubilee of Uttarakhand’s statehood, the chief minister Pushkar Singh Dhami said that there has been a 44 per cent increase in reverse migration in the State as per the Migration Prevention Commission’s report. “This is an encouraging trend,” he said and added that Uttarakhand is among the leading states in terms of employment generation for the youth and ranked first in the country in the NITI Aayog’s Sustainable Development Goals Index. “To strengthen healthcare services, a 50-bed critical care unit is being constructed in Uttarkashi at a cost of Rs 23 crore and a sub-district hospital in Purola at a cost of Rs 46 crore. Tourism has received a new impetus through the winter travel from Mukhwa to Harsil. The government is working on the concept of ‘One District, One Festival’ while Industrial development has been boosted by investments worth more than Rs 1 lakh crore through the Investor Summit,” he said.
He further said that to strengthen the local economy, House of the Himalayas, handicrafts, self-help groups, crafts and weaving are being recognised. “Over 12,000 women in Uttarkashi have become Lakhpati Didi thanks to enhanced home stay facilities and others,” he added.
He further mentioned that
work on the Silkyara Tunnel is in its final stages. “Once completed, it will reduce the distance between Yamunotri and Gangotri and boost tourism,” he said.
The CM also paid
tribute to the legendary statehood movement leader reverently called ‘Gandhi of Uttarakhand’ late Indramani Badoni on his birth anniversary. “It is thanks to his dream that Uttarakhand as a State has become a reality,” he said.
