TRIVENDRA SINGH RAWAT MEETS PM AND REQUESTS FOR FINANCIAL ASSISTENCE FOR VARIOUS STATE PROJECTS

The chief minister of Uttarakhand Trivendra Singh Rawat met the prime minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi and extented him an invitation to inaugurate the Uttarakhand Investors Summit being organised in Uttarakhand on 7th and 8th October, 2018.

During the cordial meeting that lasted for few minutes the chief minister also requested the prime minister for sanctioning the 18 year old state a special financial package of five thousand crore green bonus against the himalayan state’s contribution in protecting and preserving the ecology and environment of Uttarakhand, for establishing or starting the green accounting system, necessary approvals for the various hydro power projects in the state lying stuck due to various environmental bottlenecks and being subjudice, establishment of the central Herbal and Research Institute at Kotdwar, special central assistence for holding the Maha Kumbh at Haridwar and grant of special funding for the rehibilitation and reconstruction of the ecological disaster affected sensitive villages of Uttarakhand.

In the context of various hydro power projects to be started in Uttarakhand the chief minister Rawat urged upon the prime minister to get the 300 megawatt Lakhwaad project approved by the cabinet committee of economic affairs at the earliest. He also requested the prime minister to get early environmental and technical clearences in the context of Central Electricity Authority’s 300 megawatt Nand Prayag hydro power project .

In connection with the 660 Kishaao Hydropower project, Rawat asked Modi for its early financial clearence and for 100 megawatt Nandprayag Langaasu project the UK CM requested for early release of the term of reference in order to initiate its expedious study.

The meeting was held in an extremely cordial environment and the prime minister assured of every possible central assistence to Uttarakhand in the near future. The chief minister also presented a book on the state government’s achievement’s on various developmental projects of Uttarakhand.

In the picture, while the chief minister Uttarakhand is looking in asmiling posture, the prime minister seems to be quite serious.

It may be recalled that the state of Uttarakhand is running in a heavy fiscal deficit of  44000 crores that has enhanced frm Rs 6000 crores from 2004 to the present figure during the tenure of the successive governments during the last sixteen years.

The present government’s finacial income or recovery to too low as compared to  the increasing fiscal deficit.  The state government is therefore at the mercy of the union government for financial assistence every now and then. Even generating the salary of its employees has allegedly become an uphill task in the state.