Why Himachal and Uttarakhand pay for your pilgrimage, tourism and your evironment

While every other state in plains have million opportunities to expand horizon of growth, hills of Himachal, Uttarakhand and other Himalayan states have restrictions. Unlike other states HP can't use its natural resources unrestrictedly because they have responsibility to ensure good weather and rains for the people of plains in rest of India.

We don’t let Himalayan states start lucrative timbre or mining industries in large scale for fear of environmental consequences knowing that these states take this responsibility as custodian for protecting environment for all of India. Does it get compensated for?

People of hills do need good roads but bringing multilane expressways through fragile mountains only benefits people from far of places in Gujarat, south, Punjab , Bengal etc who want to spend good time for their recreation or for seeking salvation at remote pilgrimages where they want to reach faster, more conveniently and in larger numbers. They want even railroads tunnelled through hills to reach Badrinath and Ketharnath quicker. Left to them locals will not need these expressways and trains needlessly. These activities of heavy construction using massive blasting and mega boring through mountains have broken and damaged the very foundations of the hills which are now susceptible to landslides after getting soaked with heavy rains as is being experienced now. Do these states like Himachal get compensated for by people of the plains who reach in millions as tourists and pilgrims up the hills and for whom needless infrastructures need be created mindlessly. 

While these states and people of plains expect and demand restriction on industrial commercial activities on hill states to save their own skies, should centre and other states not consider suitably compensating them, who find even needs at times of disasters difficult to meet because of the lack of funds. At times of difficulty like being experienced this season, every state from plains should be held responsible and made to pay large cess proportionate to number of people who travel to hills from these places. 

All unnecessary large construction activities must be stopped which benefit only large contractors and may be corrupt enablers of these projects but proportionately very few commoners. Tourism and pilgrimage must be enjoyed in natural convenient setting. It can't be pilgrimage being able to drive your SUV from Surat right to the doorstep of Kedarnath or enjoying extra cool weather reaching Shimla one hour earlier while causing miseries to local people. Let's stop all this.