Uttarakhand News

The weather in Uttarakhand changed course again. In the Kumaon division, the rain started from midday in the morning after mildly sunny morning, while most of the districts of Garhwal division received torrential rains. Due to rain and hailstorm, temperatures dropped from hilly areas to the plains. Winter clothing which had been put away by most people had to be ...

The budget session of the state assembly is going to start from Bhadarisain (Gairsain) on Tuesday. Due to the first session of the year, it will start with the Governor’s address. Finance Minister Prakash Pant will present the budget for the upcoming financial year in the House on 22nd March. All administrative preparations have been completed for the session. Chief ...

The state cabinet on Monday fixed the excise revenue target for the next financial year at Rs 2,550 crore. For the current year, the target was Rs 2,310 crore which incidentally excise officials are struggling to achieve. According to many observers, the setting up of higher targets for the next year belies the claims made by the Trivendra Singh Rawat ...

To end the shortage of doctors in the hills, the Uttarakhand Medical Service Selection Board (UMSSB) is hiring 712 doctors to serve in the hilly areas. These doctors will be offered special perks to work in the hilly regions. Chairman of UMSSB, Dr D S Rawat, said, “A total 1,604 applicants had applied online and 1,153 people were shortlisted for ...

The Uttarakhand Subordinate Service Selection Commission has initiated an inquiry into a complaint by students that at least 40 questions in the written examination for the post of Village Development Officer (VDO) held on February 25 were repeated. Secretary of the commission Santosh Badoni said they had initiated an inquiry into the matter. For the last couple of years, the ...

A Passport Seva Kendra (PSK) was opened in Udham Singh Nagar headquarters Rudrapur on Tuesday. Residents of the district, who till now had to travel to Dehradun to get their passports done or renew them, welcomed the development. MP Bhagat Singh Koshyari inaugurated the facility at the city post office. “The centre will largely benefit the people living in this ...

The route of three bus services from Nepal to Uttarakhand is going to open. It has been agreed at the high level meeting between the state and Nepal in Kathmandu on Friday. Under the leadership of Joint Secretary, Union Transport Minister, Dakshita Das, the officials of Uttarakhand discussed in detail with the group formed for the transport facilities across the ...

The IAS Association of Uttarakhand has condemned the assault on the Chief Secretary of NCT, Anshu Prakash, by an AAP MLA earlier this week when the former had gone to CM house in New Delhi. In a statement, the IAS association of Uttarakhand has demanded immediate arrest of culprits. “We demand action and arrest of culprits. In this hour, we ...

The Rs 1,384-crore tunnel project has been approved in Uttarakhand as part of the ‘Char Dham’ project to connect Kedarnath, Badrinath, Yamunotri and Gangotri. The tunnel will reduce the travel distance from Dharasu to Yamunotri by about 20 km and travel time by about an hour. The decision about the tunnel project was taken at a CCEA (Cabinet Committee on ...

The Uttarakhand government has taken a decision to regularise 2.41 crore sqm of nazul land (government land given on lease), which would provide ownership rights to those who have been legally or illegally staying on such land. Usually, such land is given on 90-year or 30-year lease. The new policy was approved by the state cabinet at a meeting, chaired ...