The per capita income (PCI) in Uttarakhand, which stood at Rs 42,000 in November last year, has now zoomed to Rs 56,000.
“As a result of the policies and planning of the government, the per capita income of the state has increased from Rs 14,000 to Rs 56,000,” Chief Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank said in a statement a day before the BJP government completes four years in office in the hill state. Significantly, the per capita income in the state stood at Rs 42,000 in November last year, according to the official documents as well as the CM’s statements.
Claiming that Uttarakhand is far ahead of the country in terms of the economic growth rate, he said the growth rate in the hill state was 9.4 per cent which was better than the national growth rate.
The Veer Chandra Singh Garhwali Government Medical College has been established with a cost of Rs 242 crore in Srinagar town of Pauri district where MBBS degree is available at the nominal fees of just Rs 15,000 per year, he said. “As many as 50,000 farmers have got associated with cultivation of medicinal plants at the first stage of the Jadi Booti Vikas Yojna recently launched by the government.”
Nishank said the industrial growth rate which was 1.9 when the state was formed in 2000, has now reached 26 per cent due to rapid industrialisation. Investment in the state has reached Rs 30,000 crore from Rs 96 crore during the past one decade.
Under the special industrial policy, a provision of grant up to Rs 15 crore to the private sector for infrastructural-development in the hilly and far-flung remote areas of the state has been made. Under this policy, the capital investment has reached Rs 218 crore in the hilly areas.
