(The Tribune)
Forty-eight licences have been issued to promote adventure sports in the Tehri lake and to give employment to local people, the Uttarakhand Assembly was told. The Tehri Special Area Tourism Development Authority has issued these licences, state Tourism minister Satpal Maharaj told the Assembly in a written reply to a question by Dhanaulti MLA Pritam Singh Pawar.When asked why only 48 licences were issued so far, the minister attributed it to a ban imposed by the Uttarakhand High Court on white water river rafting and other adventure sports activities in the state in June this year.
