Uttarakhand will not have any youth left unemployed by 2022, said Chief Minister Harish Rawat. He was speaking while participating in the Satat Vikas Sankalp Yatra being undertaken by the Pradesh Congress Committee. Attending the party programme on the final day of the two-day tour at Dharchula in Pithoragarh district, the CM spoke in detail to the public on the various schemes and facilities being provided by the State Government.
Rawat said, “By linking the youth with enterprises to encourage them towards self employment, there will be no youth left unemployed in the State by 2022. Some work or the other will be given to every working hand,”averred the CM. Referring to the Satat Vikas Sankalp Yatra, he said that the effort was aimed at helping connect villages to the developmental mainstream and to completely eradicate poverty from the State. Considering consistent execution of developmental works, there will not be anyone left below the poverty line by the year 2020, opined the Chief Minister. Averring that the people of Dharchula and Munsiyari had supported him during his political career, the Chief Minister opined that the Uttarakhand forest development corporation chairman Harish Dhami had contributed towards facilitating various developmental works in this border region. Speaking about various Governmental schemes, he said that people were also being encouraged through various schemes to get involved with agriculture. Rawat said that various educational, technical and medical institutions had been opened in the State but the desired benefit will become available only when the required importance is accorded to education.
The State tribal commission vice chairman Kailash Rawat, Pithoragarh municipal council chairman Jagat Singh Khati, Pithoragarh district Panchayat, Prakash Joshi, Pithoragarh superintendent of police Ajay Joshi, sub divisional magistrate of Dharchula, Rajkumar Pande and others were also among those present on the occasion apart from local residents and Congress party cadre.