INDIAN STATE: UTTARAKHAND

Aviation

Vision

• Position air transport as a reliable all weather low cost transport option in the hills and as a driver of quality tourism.
  
• Establish scheduled air service with every state capital and connectivity with an international gateway.

Strategy for Development

• Increase stake of state in development of Airports and develop low cost Air Bases.
  
• Put in place a proactive PSP structure, attractive incentives and positive risk sharing mechanism that encourage efficient low cost services.
  
• Facilitate participation of state governments, urban local bodies, airline/aircraft operators, other private investors in development, upgradation and management of small airports/airstrips.

Initiatives Underway

• Close coordination with the Airport Authority of India for upgradation/expansion of Jolly Grant airport Dehradun.
  
• Operationalising of the airstrips at Gaucher (Chamoli), Chinyalisaur (Uttarkashi) and Pithoragarh.
  
• Feasibility study for launching a Mountain Airline to boost high altitude tourism.
  
• Promotion of Aero sports.

Social Infrastructure

Health

The Government of Uttarakhand is committed to improve the health status and quality of life of its people, by focusing on health issues with the objective of reducing disease burden, creating an enabling environment influencing direct and indirect health determinant such as nutrition, water, sanitation, the environment and other factors such as education and employment in the state. The Government intends to reach the replacement level of fertility, population stability with due attention to disadvantaged sections, inaccessible and remote areas.

The following objectives have been laid down by the state in its health and population policy:

• Eradicate polio by 2007.
  
• Reduce the level of leprosy to below 1 per 10,000 population by December 2007
  
• Reduce mortality on account of tuberculosis, malaria, and other vector and water-borne diseases by 50 percent by 2010. Reduce prevalence of blindness from around 1 to 0.3 percent by 2010.
  
• Reduce Iodine Deficiency Disorder (IDD) by 50 percent of the present level by 2010.
  
• Reduce RTIs to below 10 percent among men and women by 2007.
  
• Increase awareness on HIV/AIDS.

Education

The literacy rate in Uttarakhand is 72%, which is higher than the national literacy rate. The state strives to achieve 95% literacy rate, for which it has adopted a tri-fold strategy with the following elements:

(a) 100% enrolment
(b) 100% retention
(c) Continuous Education Programme