The people of Uttarakhand adapt to changes very quickly and rather than looking at new inventions, the focus should be on innovations for improving the quality of lives of the people. The State’s Information Technology Development Agency (ITDA) director Amit Sinha said this while speaking as the chief guest at the plenary session of the CII Uttarakhand annual session on Tuesday. Sinha informed that the State Data Centre at ITDA is the country’s first data storage unit equipped with latest technologies; its capacity of data storage is so huge that an expansion won’t be needed for years. He shared that this online availability of data will not only speed up governance and delivery but will also help boost development works even in rural areas.”

CII Uttarakhand State council chairman Vipul Dawar opined that the focus of development should now shift from ease of doing business to ease of living and improving quality of lives of citizens, ensuring competitiveness of industry through stable and predictable policy framework, building ‘Brand Uttarakhand’ and moving towards sustainable development practices to make Uttarakhand “future ready”. He further shared that for a long-term sustainable growth and development, Uttarakhand nees to focus on green construction and green buildings in the State must be promoted and incentivised as being done by many other States.

A panel discussion was organized on the theme “Sankalp Se Siddhi” - Uttarakhand State Agenda for India@2047 with an objective to discuss and deliberate on the state achievements so far and more importantly to evolve a vision for the state for a morally, economically and technologically advanced India by 2047 when India completes 100 years of independence and Uttarakhand will be close to its 50th year of formation. INTACH Uttarakhand convenor Lokesh Ohri, IGBC Chandigarh chapter chairman Jit Kumar Gupta and Yi Dehradun chapter chairman Harshit Gupta were part of the discussion.