The ‘nine requests’ that Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed to the state’s citizens and visitors on Uttarakhand Foundation Day would serve as the foundation for growth, according to Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami’s announcement on Sunday.
The chief minister said that by voicing concerns about the state’s dialect, language preservation, and migration, Prime Minister Modi had demonstrated his love for Uttarakhand.
In a statement released here, he said that the state administration will proceed by taking the prime minister’s “nine requests” as the fundamental tenet of growth.
In his video message on Saturday on the occasion of Uttarakhand entering its Silver Jubilee year, Prime Minister Modi had made five appeals to people of the state and four appeals to the tourists and pilgrims visiting the state.
He urged the people of Uttarakhand to teach dialects like Garhwali, Kumauni and Jaunsari etc. to their future generations for their identity, plant ‘one tree in the name of mother’ to protect the environment and reduce the impact of climate change, speed up the water cleanliness campaign by conserving their water sources, keep visiting the villages and convert their old houses into ‘home stays’ and make them a source of income.
Prime Minister Modi also appealed to the tourists visiting Uttarakhand to avoid single-use plastic in the Himalayas, spend at least five per cent of their travel expenses on purchasing local products under ‘Vocal for Local’ while visiting the mountains, follow traffic rules and respect the decorum of the pilgrimage sites.
The chief minister said that his government would make Prime Minister Modi’s requests the basis of its policies and will work on all of them with public support.
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Source: NDTV
