NEW DELHI: Enumerating the problems of his state on account of its hilly terrain, Uttarakhand Chief Minister B C Khanduri on Wednesday asked the Centre to determine plan priorities according to region and state-specific needs. Khanduri also urged the Centre to relax norms for developing health and medical infrastructure keeping in mind the remoteness of villages and also low population density of the state. "Determination of plan priorities should be according to region and state-specific needs, problems and constraints of economic development and status of resource endowment," he said in his address at the 54th meeting of the National Development Council here. The Forest Conservation Act, 1980, should be so amended as to exclude the "settled revenue lands" from the definition of "forests" and the lands not having forest cover should not be treated as forest. "Adequate priority should be given in the plan to programmes for checking soil erosion," he added. The Chief Minister said that a second green revolution should be initiated keeping in mind the below subsistence agriculture in hilly areas of the Himalayan states. Resources from the 11th five-year plan would be required to extend administrative support to the self-help group movement and delivery of micro-finance, he said. Apart from this, he also asked the Centre to enact at the earliest the legal framework to protect the rights of people being displaced due to variety of developmental projects and natural disasters.
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