DEHRADUN: MoS for culture, environment, forest and climate change, Mahesh Sharma, announced three new museums and a science city during his visit to the state on Sunday. The museum in Pauri will feature a memorabilia on Veer Chandra Singh Garhwali’s life and another in Tehri Garhwal will be based on Ganga river. The third one will be built in Uday Shankar academy in Almora.

Sharma said, “The consent for developing a science city in Dehradun has also been granted by the Centre and it will be constructed at a cost of Rs 190 crore.”

Earlier in the day, the minister attended the 60th annual symposium of Indian Medical Association. He raised concerns over the declining warmth in the relationship between doctors and patients. He added that health facilites in the rural areas of Uttarakhand is as bad as other states.

Director general of health, Archana Shrivastava raised the issue of scanty infrastructure for doctors in far of areas due to which most doctors don’t take transfers to the hills.