Dehradun, July 5 -- GARHWAL POST | OPINION & POLICY
Uttarakhand hills cannot afford to borrow development templates designed for the plains. A new model rooted in ecology, spirituality, and community must be built for hills and a differentiated, yet mutually supporting model needs to be built for the plains.
Uttarakhand was created in 2000 with the promise of a development pathway rooted in its unique geography, culture, and aspirations. Twenty-six years later, the central challenge remains not merely one of infrastructure, but of defining a development model suited to the Himalayan context. Such a model must emerge from the mountains themselves shaped by ecological sensitivity, resilient communities, forests, and fragile glaciers that su...