DEHRADUN, Feb. 17 -- Deepak Kumar Gairola, Secretary of the Uttarakhand Government's Program Implementation and Sanskrit Education Departments, had an official meeting on Saturday, with India's National Security Advisor Ajit Doval. During the meeting, Gairola informed Doval about the initiatives being carried out by the Uttarakhand Government's Program Implementation Department and Sanskrit Education Department for public welfare. He also presented Doval with a book titled "Meri Yojana", which provides information about state and centrally funded welfare schemes in the state.

Gairola explained how villagers in remote areas of Uttarakhand were often deprived of these schemes due to a lack of awareness. The distribution of the book at the ...