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Uttarakhand CM's focus on reviving tourism in state

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Press Trust of India - Aug 18, 2014 at 05:27pm IST Uttarakhand Chief Minister Harish Rawat on Monday said his focus on conducting the annual pilgrimages to the high-altitude shrines located in the state was meant to revive tourism which received a setback after last year's calamity. "As last year's calamity dealt a severe blow to the confidence of people wanting to visit its famous temples, I made it my priority to restore their confidence about their safety and focused on the safe conduct of the Char Dham and Nandadevi Raj Jat yatras,"  Rawat said at a press coneference here soon after the formal start of the Nandadevi Raj Jat yatra from Nauti village in the hill district of Chamoli. The Chief Minister said he wanted to give the impression to the outside world that Uttarakhand is as normal and safe a hill state as any other in the country and they had nothing to fear. "I did not want them to harbour an illusion that Uttarakhand had become inaccessible a