While inaugurating the Khirsu Autumn Festival, organised by Autumn Festival and Development Samiti at Khirsu some 19 kms far from Pauri town on Monday, Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat made a string of announcements. He said that air service would be started from several places like Almora, Pithoragarh, Pauri and Lansdowne in the next six months. He further said that Ma Ganga Express would run from Delhi to Haridwar and vice versa and a special train would run from Delhi to Ramnagar and vice versa, bringing and returning those who would visit the Corbett National Park.
He said that doctors would be posted in every State-run hospital in a couple of months. “Things are moving apace in this direction,” CM said, adding that the service at the health centres would improve a lot with the appointment of 900 nurses.
Besides, he reiterated his Government’s resolve to weed out corruption. “At least 14 persons tagged with corruption charges have been sent to jail in the recent time,” he said, adding that no one found involved in corruption would be spared.
CM sounded happy over the Centre having released the requisite funds for the high ticket all- weather road project and the new railway project. “Things are progressing smoothly. However, we need to speed things up a bit more,” he said. “Besides, the state government is all set to receive `13,000 crore for the construction of border roads,” he said.
CM said that all-out efforts are being made to make Khirsu a tourist place and the second phase of the drinking water scheme involving Dikhwal village would be completed in about four months. Cooperative banks would be set up to take banking facility into the nook and corner of the State. “Efforts are being made to make the unemployed youth self –employed through the 15 centres which have been set up to stitch readymade garments,” he said.
CM distributed cheques to seven women under Pandit Deendayal Upadhaya Kisan Kalyan Yojana which is meant to give assistance to some 300 beneficiaries from the district.
Rawat stressed on developing cluster-based agriculture and large- scale mushroom cultivation in the mountainous parts of the State, saying that they can prove as an antidote to the migration spree continuing unabated in the mountainous villages.