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Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami joined the Uttarakhand CSR Dialogue event at his official residence in Dehradun on Wednesday. The gathering brought together leaders to boost corporate social responsibility efforts in the state.
During the program, Dhami remotely launched a new digital classroom at a primary school in Mukhyamantri Adarsh Gram Sarkot. Key moments included signing memorandums of understanding (MoUs) with Axis Bank Group to digitize 24 schools across Uttarakhand. Another deal with Toyota will support CSR projects focused on environmental protection, education, healthcare, and community empowerment.
Dhami praised how top Indian companies are stepping up for Uttarakhand through their CSR programs. He pointed to initiatives in quality education, healthcare, sanitation, and environmental conservation. Groups like IIFCL, Mankind, Avana Foundation, Toyota, Nestle, THDC, IRCTC, HDFC, and Britannia are already running social projects in the region.
To attract more investment, Dhami highlighted the Global Investors Summit 2023, where Uttarakhand secured proposals worth over Rs 3.56 lakh crore. So far, projects valued at more than Rs 1 lakh crore have kicked off. The state has rolled out over 30 policies to build a strong industrial setup, covering areas like industry, logistics, startups, and MSMEs. Plus, incubation centers help new businesses grow, backed by a Rs 200 crore venture fund for financial aid.
On education, Dhami shared how the government is working hard to improve schools. Uttarakhand led the way as the first Indian state to adopt the National Education Policy 2020. All government schools now require NCERT textbooks to ensure top-notch learning. For the first time, job fairs targeted Class 12 vocational students, landing 146 of them spots with major companies. The state also pioneered a State Curriculum Framework for basic education.
Dhami stressed the fight against exam cheating, noting Uttarakhand’s toughest anti-cheating law in the country. In the last four and a half years, it helped over 25,000 young people land government jobs fairly. Since the law started, police have jailed more than 100 members of exam mafia gangs.
He warned that some folks aren’t happy about these fair chances for youth and are plotting paper leaks to stir trouble and ruin students’ futures. Just recently, someone tried to leak an exam paper and create chaos around it. Dhami vowed the government won’t stop until it wipes out every exam mafia in Uttarakhand.
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