Uttarakhand - What needs to be done!

Dear Mr. Khanduri,
Congratulations on the swearing in ceremony!Having closely followed the BJP and your career within the BJP (I really admire the way you changed the face of the Indian highways with a single minded devotion seldom seen in the Indian politicians, BJP included!).I am tempted to offer you my own two pence worth of humble suggestions. It is ofcourse most certainly upto you to consider the same or not:Please shift the capital of the state from Dehradun to Girsain. Lets not lose touch with the people on the ground. For too long in India, people have been taken for a ride. Lets not do this anymore. Uttarakhand is Devbhumi! Lets strive to make it a true devbhumi! Now it is the turn of the BJP, ostensibly a Hindu party and a party pledged to good governance. Let us ensure that all the religious places (I mean ALL of them) in Uttarakhand are cleaned up, made hygienic, renovated, even if through public - private partnerships, and made pilgrim friendly. Let our own Devbhumi be like the Vatican. Have you been there? Its absolutely religious, really clean, safe, secure, pilgrim friendly and tourist friendly.Can we aim at turning our Devbhumi into a place where truly even the Gods would love to come and stay! Can we clean up Badrinath, not just the temple but the city as well? How about the route to Kedarnath? If the route to Shree Vaishno Devi can be renovated why cant the same be done for the route to Kedarnath. I am not talking of widening the roads for cars to go. No, pilgrims need to walk it, if it be so. I am simple talking of cleaning up the route, providing lights, drinking water and toilet facilities en route etc.How about the route from Gangotri to Gaumukh? Have you been there? Its one of the most dangerous routes. If God forbid something happens to someone, it is nearly impossible for the person to get medical help. Can we have Radio en route to Gaumukh? What about Tapovan? What about Brahma Sarovar? Hemkunth? Joshimath? Yamunotri? Oh, the list is endless. But believe me, if the government focuses on simply making the tourist and religious places more accessible and friendly, just improves the roads,electricity and health facilities at these main points across Uttarakhand, more than half the work would be done. We dont need polluting factories in the hills. We need Uttarakhand to be a true Devbhumi. We need it to be an ecologically safe place, open to visitors and secure for the residents. We need to de-congest Nainital and develop Kausani, Jogeshwar, Bageshwar, Pithoragarh, Chamoli, Chopta, Almora...All this of course cannot be done by the government alone. The government just needs to take out money and get in private investment to develop the roads and electriciy and focus on a complete makeover of the religious places spread all across Uttarachal. Just developing these would ensure the development of the people living in those areas. Believe me, the rest will happen on its own. You see the example of India, unfolding right in front of our eyes. Just have to provide the right conditions and the Indian psyche will take care of the rest. We are all across the world, doing well for ourselves everywhere. We are more than a billion in India itself. Why does anyone feel that we cannot do things or we need the government to tell us how to do things? After all the government also comprises Indians. The government just needs to provide the right conditions. Focus on the basics. I repeat. You can do all of this in the first two years of your government. Just like what Mr. Nitish Kumar is doing in Bihar. I love Uttarakhand and I dont want to see it going to waste. It is our Devbhumi and we owe it to ourselves to make it a true Devbhumi!RegardsGaurav

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