The Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat said that employment, education and health facilities will have to be provided in order to mitigate migration from the mountainous regions. Reiterating his Government’s commitment to curb migration of the people from the hills to the plains, the Chief Minister said that they would go for a three-pronged approach involving employment, education and health facilities while laying emphasis on land consolidation, organic farming and aromatic plantation to make farming beneficial for all who bank on it for livelihood.
While addressing seminar on rural tourism, agriculture and livelihood on Tuesday, CM said that they were particularly concerned over the migration happening in the frontier regions endowed with strategic importance.
He added that natural beauty dotting Uttarakhand, tourism might be developed here on the lines of Switzerland with focus on conserving environment while adding further attractions for the tourists. There are immense potentials for bio diversity tourism, winter sports tourism, adventure tourism, rural home stay and heritage tourism in the Uttarakhand, he said, adding that a tourism village reflecting the glimpses of the entire state might be developed in Dehradun.
CM stressed on removing income disparities between the people of the rural and the urban areas.
Representatives of london Business School participated in seminar. Besides, students from 24 countries were also present in it.