District development officer Ved Prakash on Wednesday flagged off the squad of 40 youths embarked on the trekking trip that would move through different districts of the Garhwal region.
The trip is being sponsored by the State youth welfare department and it is a ten-day trekking tour. The squad left for its destination from Vikash Bahawan in Pauri. The squad will trek through Pauri, Tehri and Uttarkashi districts aside from Jaunsar Bhabar region of Dehradun district.
Prakash said that the youth will be acquainted in course of the trekking with the culture, social and other problems of the area. He asked them to report on what they would find during the trekking trip. District youth welfare officer Prem Singh Rawat said that the trekking trip would prove educative for the youth while the leader of the youth squad Tribhuwan Uniyal who is also the president of the district youth samiti said that the youth will give the information of the welfare schemes launched by the Government.