A ten-day long ddventure foundation course, which is being organised by the Uttarakhand Tourism Development council, has been inaugurated by city magistrate GC Gunwant on Saturday.
In his address, Gunwant said that it is golden opportunity for the participant to learn skills here and become independent in future. “As you know that in Disaster 2013 National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) and Army had played pivotal role in rescue and relief work after disaster. Now UTDC is organising the course to make youth aware about the safety precaution while come across with disaster and how they can help others during or after disaster,” he said.
Regional Tourist Officer YK Gangwar said, “We have been organising such courses for the past 10 years Maldevta, Kalsi, Chakrata and other areas.” However, it is organising for the first time in Mussoorie, he added. The main objective of conducting such courses is to promote Uttarakhand tourism which is affected by the disaster happened in June 2013 and to provide employment opportunities to Uttarakhand youths.
Various adventurous programmes such as mountaineering, rock climbing, basic rescue programme, rappelling, river-crossing, trekking, jumaring, paragliding and others will be taught during the course by experts. Its aim is to provide basic knowledge about adventure sports to the youths so that they can get a better employment opportunities in this field.
Best youth will be selected for other adventurous courses organised by tourism department.