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Tourist Traffic Hit Due to Uttarakhand Floods
85% Fall in Tourist Traffic in UttaraKhand due to Floods The June flood disaster in Uttarakhand has badly hit the tourism, the largest employment providing sector in the hill state, causing a steep fall of 85 per cent in tourist traffic. Destinations like Jaipur, Agra, Udaipur and MountAbu have benefited the most with travellers making…
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Uttarakhand Floods: World Bank & ADB to give $400m
The World Bank and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) on Tuesday agreed to provide $ 400 million for reconstruction and rehabilitation in the disaster-hit areas in Uttarakhand. In a meeting presided by Uttarakhand Chief Secretary Subhash Kumar, it was decided that the money would be spent in works in sectors including the housing, tourism, irrigation,…