The three-day District level Vasant Utsav was formally inaugurated by the Chief Minister Harish Rawat here on Friday. The CM also visited the development exhibitions put up by various departments and paid obeisance to the ‘Dev Dolis’ as well. Addressing the gathering, CM Rawat said that fairs and celebrations were part of Uttarakhand’s cultural identity. Emphasising that the Tehri Reservoir would prove a blessing for the place in the days to come, he said that much employment would be generated by it.
The State Government would provide all necessary help in this regard. It was necessary to rise above politics to bring about development in the State. He urged the folk singers of Uttarakhand at this first ever Vasant Utsav in Tehri that they write songs about the village milieu and promote love among the people for their native land.
He praised the workers and officials of NIM for the work done by them in Kedarnath. It was the effort of the Government to make Uttarakhand completely safe, as part of which the Winter Yatra was also begun and as many as fifty thousand people visited the winter abodes of the Deities. A Himalaya Darshan project had also been initiated.
On the occasion, the CM also distributed licences issued by the Tehri Zila Panchayat for boating in the Tehri Reservoir and released a souvenir prepared on the Vasant Utsav. He promised that the fair would become more elaborate in the coming years. In his address, Tehri MlA and Tourism Minister, Dinesh Dhanai, announced that the Tehri degree college would be upgraded to Post Graduate level. He instructed the Sridev Suman University VC to send a proposal on establishing a campus of the varsity in Tehri.
He promised to approve an inspection bungalow of the Zila Panchayat after land was identified for it. The DM was instructed to conduct an inquiry and make recommendations with regard to the rehabilitation of Katiyagaon. Approval was granted for construction of a bridge on the Ghansali-Chamiyala road and construction of a Chamiyala-Bhoda road.