Mr Kotyal has been a social worker since long, has been District Panchayat level senior member. In the last election, his wife Mrs Kotyal replaced Mr. JP Pandit who did not contest due his bad health, now dead. She defeated Mrs. Rajesh Agarwal, wife of ex-Sarpanch and a prominent shopkeeper of the town. Kotyal with his son Mr. Rahul also manage Pious Ganga hotel, near petrol station, just as you enter Devprayag town. Very humble and helping, you can always see him surrounded by locals in the morning at his hotel office. Pious Ganga is a nice clean hotel with its own restaurant. From the hotel
rooms, you can watch river Ganga flowing and the road across which goes to Pauri town. (in the picture, Mr Kotyal is at the left in red cap, the place is his hotel courtyard)
