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Sports And Adventure Enthusiast? Now Enjoy Free Of Cost Adventure Sports Training At Tehri Lake, Uttarakhand

In an attempt to boost tourism, Uttarakhand government has joined hands with ITBP to provide free of cost sports training at Tehri Lake.

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By: Priyanka Chakrabarti Published: Sep 22, 2020 12:22 PM IST

Sports And Adventure Enthusiast? Now Enjoy Free Of Cost Adventure Sports Training At Tehri Lake, Uttarakhand

In an attempt to boost tourism, Uttarakhand government has joined hands with ITBP to provide free of cost sports training at Tehri Lake.
By Tanvi Jain

The Uttarakhand Tourism Development Board (UTDB) and Indo Tibetan Border Police (ITBP), have recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to build centres for adventure sports activities, such as land base adventure centre, water base adventure centreaero base adventure centre, etc. at Rajiv Gandhi Adventure Sports Academy situated at Tehri Lake.  

The MoU was signed between UTDB Director, Prashant Kumar Arya and ITBP DIG, Gambhir Singh Chauhan, in the presence of ITBP IG, Nilaabh Kishore. 

As per the MoUITBP will provide training and courses in adventure sports at the Rajiv Gandhi Adventure Sports Academy, to over 200 candidates who will be selected by the state government/tourism department. The training will be provided every year for free.  

 

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ITBP will even bear all the arrangements and expenses for the operation and training in the academy. It has also prepared the road map for development and takeover of the water adventure facility near Tehri Lake and has submitted it to the state government to finalise a tie-up for the projectin order to boost tourism in Uttarakhand 

The training infrastructure built by the state government will be used by ITBP to teach all kinds of sporting activities in tharea surrounding the Tehri Lake, following security and other norms stipulated by the state. 

“Signing of the aforementioned Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) is the latest development in the state’s adventure tourism sector and will add to the post-pandemic revival process of the same. This MoU is one of our initiatives to promote adventure activities in Tehri Lake. We hope that through this initiative, adventure tourism in Uttarakhand will get a new direction,” Dilip Jawalkar, Secretary, Uttarakhand Tourism, said. 

 

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“The institute will impart training of water sports including kayaking, canoeing, rowing, sailing, parasailing, paragliding, water rescue and life-saving course. It will also benefit ITBP and other Central Armed Police Forces (CAPFs) and State Police Forces in the field of water sports,” a statement mentioned as reported by Business Standard. 

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