LUCKNOW: Chief minister Mayawati has given consent to provide the police and security
personnel as requested by the state of Uttarakhand during Mahakumbh to be held next year in Haridwar. The state will provide 15 companies of PAC, 1,000 constables, besides mounted police and other police officials for security.
The decision was taken at a meeting of chief ministers of the two states held on Saturday. In 2000, when Uttarakhand was carved out of UP, the former was also to get a certain amount of work force and assets as a part of the deal. However, there were many issues, which were still unresolved, even nine years after the creation of the hill state. For example many government staff members do not want to go to Uttarakhand. Hence, the two sides have now agreed that in the place of staff unwilling to go, the Uttarakhand will be given the posts, on which it can recruit fresh staff.
The UP government has also agreed to reserve 16 seats for the next five years to students from Uttarakhand in medical colleges in the state on PG diploma training. The state government has also agreed to transfer 18 hectares of land to NHAI for the early completion of four-lane Delhi-Haridwar national highway. It was also agreed that the chief secretaries of both states would hold talks once in a month either in Lucknow or Dehradun to resolve other issues on priority basis.
Uttarakhand chief minister Ramesh Pokhariyal Nishank later expressed satisfaction with the talks. He told reporters that Uttarakhand government would recruit 4,000 policemen to fill vacancies in the force due to the unwillingness of personnel to shift from UP to the hill state. "As they had been delaying shifting to Uttarakhand and had been taking recourse to the law it was felt that fresh appointments of youths of the hill state having better knowledge of the region be made to permanently fill the vacancies," he said. source: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com
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