Chief Minister Harish Rawat laid the foundations of various works amounting to more than Rs 78 crore during his visit to Kanalichina block of Pithoragarh on Monday. He also inaugurated the Chief Minister’s health insurance scheme at Kanalichina, distributing health insurance cards to beneficiaries. Addressing the public, Rawat said that the State Government is working in a planned manner to strengthen the State’s economy on its own resources in five years.
“In order to encourage dairy production, we have decided to give Rs 4 bonus per litre of milk while women’s dairy committees are being given Rs 6 bonus per litre. While we are also conducting a scheme to encourage cultivation of fodder species, we will also launch mission walnut in the rainy season. We are working in the rural areas to stop the migration from the mountainous areas within the next four years,” said the CM.
He also spoke about the various schemes being run by the State government for the welfare of the public. Pithoragarh MlA Mayukh Mahar and Gangolihat MlA Narayan Ram Arya also spoke on the occasion informing the CM about issues of their constituencies. later, Rawat also visited remote village of Pato in Munsyari Tehsil. Addressing the locals at Pato, he said that all the disaster affected people in the area would be provided relief and compensation.
Calling residents of border Himalayan villages the guardians of the border, the CM announced that four kilometre road would be constructed for Pato before the rains and the remaining five kilometres after the rains. The area will be electrified without delay, said Rawat, while also announcing the establishment of an ANM centre at Pato and provision of additional Rs 10,000 compensation to each disaster affected family from the chief minister relief fund. From Pato, the CM went to Madkot where he inaugurated a festival of the Barpatiya community.