Improved security brought down the daily rate of killing from ten to one. With an improved security situation, tourist arrivals to the Valley increased from 28,000 a year to 6 lakhs by 2008, when he relinquished the appointment of Governor. Like the one lakh shallow tube wells project in Assam, he was instrumental in starting 1000 micro hydel projects on the mountains in the state. The idea was to place a turbine on a water mill and generate 3 to 5 KW of electricity providing about 30 light points in a village.