Dehradun: The Pushkar Singh Dhami government of Uttarakhand is preparing to set up 15 new cities. For this, a preliminary selection of 12 places in Garhwal and 10 in Kumaon has been done at the level of Uttarakhand Housing and Urban Development Council (Uda). These new cities will be settled in a planned manner. In these, the strategy of settling cities from Garhwal to Doiwala, Chharba, Sahaspur, Arcadia, Roshanabad, Roorkee, the eastern region of Bahadarabad, near Kotdwar, near Chinyalisaur airstrip, Gauchar on Alaknanda coast, south of Simli, Bharadisain-Gairsain, etc.

Whereas, Kumaon to Gaulapar (as Greater Haldwani), south of Ramnagar, near Naini Saini, Almora, Almora ITBP Campus, Rudrapur, Sitarganj, Kashipur, Jaspur, and Bajpur have been identified. While making a master plan of these places, basic facilities like electricity, water, and roads will be provided here so that people will be motivated to settle here. This will reduce the pressure on existing cities. 

According to the decision of the camp, a think tank will be formed in the state on the lines of NITI Aayog. The planning department will set it up in a month and its name will be State Institute for Empowering Transforming Uttarakhand i.e. SETU. Along with this, it was also decided to form a separate board for projects being operated in PPP mode, which will be named Uttarakhand Investment and Infrastructure Development Board. It has been decided to make 25 percent of roads in the state with green technology by the year 2025. The department has been asked to take steps for this. Along with this, it has also been decided to uproot the road and recycle the same material and use it in road construction.  

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