Recently, a friend of mine came back from a tour of Garhwal and
he was kind enough to send me a few snaps from the region to let me know what
was happening in this hill state of ours and I am here to share with you guys,
the snaps he sent had sent me. Take a look guys:
Though, it is said that tourism is going to be a major industry
in Uttaranchal and that TPS Rawat and company are working day and night to tell
the world that Uttaranchal is a better destination that Switzerland. Well there
are a few things which one wouldn’t find in
Imagine the tranquility and calmness at the evening in a remote
While women toil day night in the jungles and in the fields,
these good for nothing guys find enough time to play cards during the day and
snatch money from their women folks in the evening and to drink Daru. Ask these
guys why are they not working and they will give you 1001 excuses why they
aren’t!
While the men play cards oblivious of what is going around, this
half blind aged woman goes to the local ‘dhar’ to
fetch water from there. So asking for safe and clean drinking water is a
Communist Agenda, which doesn’t inspires us!
This old man retired from the Army in 1957 and must be over ninety
years of age. His clothes were dirty and he doesn’t drink (Yes, there are men
who don’t drink!). Probably, there is no one to look after him. His wife might
be too old or dead to take care of him or his children must be working elsewhere.
While this young girl is busy selling maize to the customers, her
father was busy easing himself with a game of cards and a cup of tea. Welcome
to a prosperous Uttarakhand!
Young girl students pose for a photograph. This school is being
run by a private trust. Its good that many
Uttarakhandis are returning to their roots and doing things to improve the life
of people.
As most of the right thinking people have been saying for long,
that it is only HAT or Horticulture, Agriculture and Tourism which can bring
prosperity in the hills. These dry and abandoned agricultural fields are a grim
reminder of the dead economy of the hills. There are thousands of such
agricultural fields throughout British Garhwal, which have been left abandoned
due to lack of ‘Land Consolidation’ and non-implementation of modern and
scientific methods of farming. If we can ask the owners to plant, not crops,
but trees of Apples, Malta, Grapes, Apricots, Pears etc, which initially
require some effort from our part, it will definitely take Uttarakhand ahead of
Himachal in horticulture.
Leave the IT thing to the young, English educated blokes in
Dehradun and Haldwani, which is mere eyewash on the part of the government and
to mislead people whose vision is far removed from reality. The IT Park, which
our fav bureaucrat, Amarendra boasts about, is not even in any kind of tangible
form, though only soil testing of the site was recently completed. The proposed
IT incubation centre at Bhimtaal is not even formally drafted or approved! This
is the work done by the government in Uttaranchal and how Uttaranchal has
progressed after three and a half years, it does not matter whether it has
signed MoU s with Microsoft or IBM.
Horticulture and
Agriculture along with Tourism hold key to Uttarakhand’s prosperity.
Well the best
thing about this site is tha you can post photos as
well. Otherwise, you guys would have accussed this
commie bastard of misquoting facts to justify his existence. Thanks for going through
this guys.