Pravasi Uttarakhandi Sammelan to be held in Dehradun on 07 November.

Dehradun (Amanullah Usmani) Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami on Saturday launched the website of Pravasi Uttarakhand Cell www.pravasiuttarakhandi.uk.gov.in at the Secretariat. The website of Pravasi Uttarakhand Cell has been prepared through ITDA. Through the website, information about various policies, programs and activities of the state government will be provided to the migrants.

The Chief Minister directed the officials to organize a grand conference in Dehradun on the occasion of the proposed Pravasi Uttarakhand Diwas on 07 November 2024 by inviting the migrants living in different states of the country. He said that everyone is connected to their motherland. The state government is trying to take the cooperation of the migrants of Uttarakhand for the development of the state and provide them every possible support to connect with their motherland. He said that the migrants of our Uttarakhand have made their own identity on the strength of their work in the country and the world. He said that we should have regular contact with all the people of Uttarakhand living in the country and the world. Our effort is to be a partner in every happiness and sorrow.

The Chief Minister directed the officials to invite the migrant Uttarakhandis living abroad and organize a big conference in the state soon. The database of all the migrant Uttarakhandis living abroad should be kept updated. He said that the way our migrant brothers and sisters are welcomed grandly during foreign trips, it clearly reflects their attachment to their ancestral land and their connection with their culture.

The Migrant Uttarakhand Cell has been established in the state with the objective of making the state government reach out to the Uttarakhandi migrants residing in different countries and different states of India from the state of Uttarakhand and to connect the migrant Uttarakhandis with their motherland, to take advantage of their expertise, experience and financial capabilities in the development of the state and to honor the migrants with notable achievements. For the convenience of the migrants living abroad, links to the Ministry of External Affairs of the Government of India and its important schemes have also been given on the website. The cell has collected contact details of migrant organizations and eminent migrants working within the country and abroad from various sources. So far, contact has been established with expatriate Uttarakhandis living in 18 countries.

On this occasion, Chief Secretary Mrs. Radha Raturi, Secretary R. Meenakshi Sundaram, Dr. B.V.R.C. Purushottam, Dipendra Chaudhary, S.N. Pandey, Director General of Information Banshidhar Tiwari, Director ITDA Mrs. Nitika Khandelwal, member of Overseas Uttarakhand Cell Sudhir Chandra Nautiyal and related officers were present.