Srinagar (Uttarakhand) : During his visit to his native village, a hotel businessman in Uttarakhand became very alarmed at seeing most of the young residents leaving it in search of jobs elsewhere. Then, Mahipal Singh Panwar decided to change the situation in his village. Later, he shifted his family there, not only attracted people towards reverse migration but also introduced about 5,500 farmers of nearby villages to modern farming methods and cultivation of medicinal plants.
Mahipal Singh Panwar, who is a resident of Dharpaiyakoti village of Kirtinagar development block of Tehri district, has now become a source of inspiration for unemployed youth and farmers. He changed traditional farming in his village and started cultivating herbs. Today, Mahipal Singh Panwar is not only generating revenue of more than one crore rupees from herbal farming, but has also made the farmers of nearby villages prosperous.
Earlier, Mahipal Singh had a hotel business in Mussoorie and that was doing very well. But one day when he suddenly came to his village, he was shocked to see the conditions there. Most of the youth of the village had migrated. The agricultural land in the village was lying barren. It was from here that the idea of attracting the residents back to the village came to his mind. For this, he left his hotel business and chose modern farming methods in place of traditional ones.
