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Uttaranchal
By Our Staff Correspondent
DEHRA DUN, DEC. 17. Police arrested about 40 Tehri dam oustees as they tried to stop officials of the Airports Authority of India from conducting a survey on the land in Jolly Grant area where they were rehabilitated nearly two decades ago. The Government wants to expand the airstrip to facilitate arrival of airbuses there to promote tourism. Although the land was acquired long ago, not many of the re-ousted victims of the Tehri project have been given compensation so far. "We have worked very hard to make this wasteland good enough for cultivation and had started forgetting the shock of being forced out of Tehri when the officials are back again ordering us to vacate this land also. We are ready to make another sacrifice for the State but the Government must first allot us alternative land with a promise that we will not be uprooted again," said Saroj Negi and others kept in the Dehra Dun police lines. All earlier attempts to operate a regular air service between Dehra Dun and Delhi have failed with operators refusing to run the aircrafts without passengers. The latest flop in the aviation history of Uttaranchal was the much publicized air service to Badrinath and Kedarnath. Hardly a few dozen passengers besides the bureaucrats availed the facility before it was withdrawn. Perhaps the Government should first develop the right kind of tourist-friendly atmosphere so that people came to stay here for a few days and spent money. The current policies and statements declaring Uttaranchal as a world tourist destination look hollow when we see at the empty hotels in the State, said S. P. Kochar a leading hotelier.
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