The Jan Kalyan Manch, Pauri has submitted a memorandum to Uttarakhand Chief Minister through Pauri District Magistrate regarding the efforts of the Government to transfer the office of the rural development commissioner from the regional headquarter Pauri to Dehradun, in which 30 to 35 employees and officers are working. The said office is a state-level office. It is being stated that the plans have been made for shifting this office from the Garhwal regional headquarters to the provisional state capital. If this office has shifted to any other place or Dehradun from Pauri, the public will be forced to launch agitation.
The Jan Kalyan Manch convener Raghubir Singh Rawat, lalit Kothiyal, Girish Barthwal, Bhagwan Singh Negi and Jag Mohan Singh Rawat signed memorandum to Chief Minister stating that after the creation of Uttarakhand state, the first Chief Minister of the state the late Nityanand Swami had inaugurated Panchayati Raj Directorate and office of Commissioner of Rural Development in the year 2001, but no higher authority has worked from these offices till now.
Expressing best wishes to the newly elected government under chief minister Trivendra Singh Rawat, the Jan Kalyan Manch said that the Pauri is the district and regional headquarter having the administrative level importance, but after the creation of the state, the status of Pauri has deteriorated day by day.Due to the policy of previous government, many regional offices have been shifted from Pauri to Dehradun. When the public had opposed the government action, the shifting of the remaining offices was put on hold. The memorandum on behalf of the people of Pauri town, requests the chief minister to stop proceedings in the transfer of this regional office from regional headquarters Pauri to provisional state capital Dehradun.