Skiing Centre at Auli Uttarakhand

Auli: Uttarakhand Chief Minister Ramesh Pokhariyal on Friday said his government would build a large skiing training centre at Auli Uttarakhand shortly.

Inaugurating the second and the last leg of first South Asian Winter games amidst a cultural fest here, Pokhariyal said the large skiing centre would attract sports lovers from home and abroad to Auli, which has been declared as the natural skiing site by Olympic Council of Asia.

By organising the winter games, Uttarakhand has achieved another milestone in the sports arena, he said.

The Chief Minister also lauded the role of Winter Games Federation of India (WGFI) in organising the event.

Earlier, Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia, who was to officially declare the games open could not reach the venue due to bad weather conditions.

Source: zeenews.com

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Elephant found dead in Rajaji Park Dehradun

Carcass of a female elephant wasfound in Chilla range of Rajaji Park near here, the parkofficials said.

The body of the 42-year-old elephant was noticed by parkguards during a routine patrolling yesterday. A postmortem of the pachyderm has revealed that it died due to an injury inits neck, they said.

In Uttarakhand, bodies of four elephants have beenrecovered in the past five days. On January seven, a tusk-lessmale elephant was killed in a fight with a tusker in Kotdwar area.

Another tusker was also killed in a similar incident onthe following day. Then on January 9, a calf elephant died ofpneumonia in Kotdwar area.

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Hundreds of villagers in remote areas of Uttarakhand's Uttarkashi district are trapped in heavy snowfall and incessant rains, officials said on Saturday.

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Sidcul amends rules for logistics hubs

The bidding process for the development of two logistics hubs in Uttarakhand, which had hit the roadblock last year, has been amended with the government deciding to go for profit sharing formula and lowering the land premium considerably.

With the development of key industrials estates of Haridwar and Pantnagar, the State Infrastructure and Industrial Development Corporation of Uttarakhand Limited (Sidcul) had chalked out plans to provide logistic support and comforts to the industries through these two proposed hubs. For this purpose, about 10 bids were received by Sidcul.

However, the Sidcul board, comprising top government officials, expressed reservations over certain clauses due to which the bidding process did not make any headway. Some of these companies wanted to make upfront charges in a staggered manner by adopting annuity model. However, this was not accepted by the board.

Besides, all the 10 bidders, who were selected through technical bidding process, also wanted some concessions because they found the land premium to be quite high. “We have adopted the middle path to suit both the government as well as the developers,” said a government official.

Under the new formula, the bidders will be offered land at a reserve price aroundRs 1200 per sq metre at the integrated industrial estates (IIEs) of Haridwar and Pantnagar against the current land premium of Rs 3,800 and Rs 4,500 per sq metre. Besides, the government has also decided to take two per cent of the total profit earned. In addition to this, a land rent of Rs 5 per sq metre will also be charged.

“We have now invited financial bids to complete the process. Some of the parties are also seeking more time. We hope to complete entire process shortly,” the official added.

Sidcul, the nodal agency for industrial development in the hill state, had decided to set up two modern logistic/transport hubs having facilities like warehouse, truck parking, dormitories and 24 hour canteen/restaurant, fuel station, service centres, office complexes for service providers and hotels. An investment of Rs 50 crore is proposed in the two logistic hubs.

But the demand from industries was growing for logistic hubs mainly for the comfort of businessmen and industrialists visiting the two places.

Sidcul has also mandated IL&FS Ltd to undertake comprehensive process, management leading to appointment of developers who will implement the projects on the Public Private Partnership model.

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The central government has asserted a 135 km workout of the Ganga river from Gaumukh to Uttarkashi in Uttarakhand an eco-sensitive regularize, Environment and Forests Minister Jairam Ramesh said on Tuesday.

The decision was taken in the Soul Ganga River Sink Permission (NGRBA) breakfast chaired by Bloom Minister Manmohan Singh Weekday.

The NGRBA gave in principle support under cut (3) of the Surround Extortion Act (EPA) of 1986 to declare the 135 km stretch from Gaumukh to Uttarkashi as eco-sensitive separate," said Ramesh.

The NGRBA is a planning, finance, monitoring and coordinating embody of the bifocal governing and the states. The objective of the NGRBA is to check pollution and conserves the Ganga through encompassing planning and management.

The NGRBA legal a resolution to desert terzetto hydel country projects - Loharinag Pala, Bhairon Ghati, and Pala Maneri - in Uttarakhand," he said.