Paying Uttarakhand a green bonus for the eco-system services it provides, lifting the ban on construction of hydro-power projects in the State and scrapping the 100-km area along the Bhagirathi river which has been notified as eco-sensitive zone, were among the requests that Chief Minister Harish Rawat placed at the first meeting of the Governing Council of NITI Aayog in New Delhi on Sunday.

He said that the Centre must help the Uttarakhand government with policies that would help in swapping forest land needed for the rehabilitation.

Mr. Rawat added that the Central government must allot all projects with a funding that would be paid for in a ratio of 90:10 between the Centre and the State.

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