CM Rawat inaugurates Gauchar Fair

The historic Gauchar Fair started today with Chief Minster Harish Rawat inaugurating it here on the birth anniversary of former Prime Minister Jawahar Lal Nehru.

The fair serves as a platform to showcase the state government's development and industrial activities.

Aimed at creating a market for tribal merchandise, the fair is held every year on Rishikesh-Badrinath highway since pre-independence.

Jauljivi in Pithoragarh district and Gauchar in Chamoli district have been associated with Indo-Tibetan border trade and a large number of traders from Tibet used to participate in the fair in the past.

People from far-off places used to converge at the fair to buy goods from Tibetan traders before the suspension of Indo-Tibetan border trade in 1962.