Uttarakhand Governor Krishan Kant Paul invited the Austrian Ambassador to India Bernhard Wrabetz to ski at Auli during the winters and to Nainital during the summer. The Austrian ambassador paid a courtesy visit to the Governor at the Raj Bhawan in Dehradun on Tuesday. Finding Wrabetz curious about Uttarakhand, Paul told him about the various specialties of the State.
The Governor spoke about the unique natural beauty, special spiritual backdrop, tourism and life style of the people in Uttarakhand. He also gifted a book ‘Simply Heaven - Discovering Uttarakhand’ to the ambassador. The Governor and the ambassador also discussed subjects related to investment in industrial sector and tourism development.
While talking about the interest of Austrians in skiing, the Governor informed about the winter sports destination Auli and invited the ambassador to ski here in the winter and to Nainital in the summer. later, while meeting Chief Minister, Harish Rawat at the Bijapur guest house, Wrabetz said while touring Uttarakhand, he visited various places where he found the natural beauty quite impressive.
Pointing at the potential for development in tourism and other sectors, the ambassador said that there are similarities between the mountainous regions of Austria and Uttarakhand. Stressing that the State is committed to development in tourism and other sectors, Rawat said the State Government will provide full cooperation if Austria is interested in investing in Uttarakhand or facilitating any type of technology based industrial training for the unemployed youth here.
The State is attempting to facilitate establishment of environment-friendly industries to generate employment for the youth. He averred that the atmosphere developed for investment is attracting national and foreign industrial ventures to Uttarakhand with a single window system being implemented for this.