CM favours steps to check migration

Tribune News Service

Dehradun, March 28

Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat has said employment, education and health facilities have to be provided to curb the migration from hilly regions and land consolidation and aromatic plantation will have to be promoted to make agriculture beneficial in the state.

The Chief Minister, while addressing a seminar on rural tourism, agriculture and livelihood held here today, said migration must be curbed in frontier regions considering the strategic importance of the state. Representatives of London Business School, including students from 24 countries, were present in the seminar.

The Chief Minister further said the natural beauty of Uttarakhand had given a unique identity to the Devbhoomi and tourism should be developed conserving the environment like Switzerland. “There are immense potentials for bio-diversity tourism, winter sports tourism, adventure tourism, rural home stay and heritage tourism. A tourism village reflecting the glimpses of entire Uttarakhand might be developed in Dehradun,” he said.

Chief Minister Rawat asserted that special emphasis should be laid to remove income disparities between rural and urban areas. “Organic farming is being practised in Uttarakhand traditionally. Agriculture might be beneficial here if we ensure land consolidation. New dimensions have to be given to agriculture by promoting aromatic plantation,” he said.