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Uttarakhand planning chief unveils 2047 roadmap with climate focus
Dr Manoj Kumar Pant, Director of Planning for Uttarakhand, has outlined a development roadmap to 2047 centred on climate resilience and sustainable growth. Speaking in The Times of India’s Uttarakhand Forward 2.0…
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Dr Manoj Kumar Pant, Director of Planning for Uttarakhand, has outlined a development roadmap to 2047 centred on climate resilience and sustainable growth. Speaking in The Times of India’s Uttarakhand Forward 2.0 series, Pant said future planning must put climate at the centre. He flagged migration as a key challenge, stressing the need to create livelihoods in hill and rural areas so that people do not migrate out of distress. Better connectivity and technology could enable ‘work from the hills’ as part of Vision 2047.
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Long-term vision documents often draw scepticism as empty promises. But Pant’s emphasis on making climate the centre of planning is a genuine shift if matched by budgets and regulation. The real test will come when the state allocates funds for hill connectivity and livelihood creation, and when migration data shows whether distress moves have eased. Will the next Uttarakhand budget put climate spending above token allocations?
Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com
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