Uttarakhand News

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 ...

Rs.11,169 cr investment approved with central assistance of Rs.2,797 cr Haryana gets 53,290 houses, Tamil Nadu-40,623, Karnataka-32,656, Gujarat-15,584, Maharashtra-12,123, Bihar-11,411, Kerala-9,461, Uttarakhand-6,226, Odisha-5,133 Ministry of Housing & UrbanAffairshas approved the construction of 1,86,777more affordable houses for the benefit of urban poor under Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (Urban) with an investment of Rs.11,169crwith central assistance of Rs. 2,797 cr. The approval ...

The holiday of Mahashivratri festival in Uttarakhand will take place on February 13 instead of February 14. After the amendment to this holiday date, the state cabinet meeting will now be held on February 14 instead of February 13. The festival of Mahashivratri will be celebrated on February 13 in Uttarakhand. The festival will be held on February 14 in ...

The international skiing championship slated to be held in the world famous ski slopes ofAuli has been canceled due to insufficient snowfall this season. The championship was proposed from 16 to 22 February. About this, the Winter Games Federation has sent a report to the Federation of International Skiing (FIS). The government had decided to organize skiing championships in Auli ...

Lanco Infratech Limited which was building Vyong phata hydro power project (76 MW) in Vyong village of Rudraprayag district has closed down the project for incurring losses, especially after a large part of its barrage got washed away in 2013 deluge. Villagers who had been opposing this project and another Singoli Bhatwadi (99MW) in the vicinity since 2001 and were ...

With a special investigating team (SIT) already examining the Rs 300 crore scam in the NH-74 land acquisition and compensation process another central agency, enforcement directorate (ED), on Sunday joined the investigation process. The ED is all set to register cases under the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) based on FIR filed by SIT which also ...

Social activist Anna Hazare will be on a two-day visit to Uttarakhand from February 13. He will be addressing rallies in Srinagar and Tehri. State coordinator of the anti-corruption movement Bhopal Singh Choudhury said Anna would arrive in Dehradun on February 13. He will leave for Srinagar the same day and address a rally there on February 14. He will ...

The Centre has sanctioned Rs 1,500 crore for three years to promote organic farming in state. The amount was sanctioned by Union Agriculture Minister Radha Mohan Singh when Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat met him in New Delhi yesterday. This was in keeping with PM Narendra Modi’s vision of developing Uttarakhand as an organic state, which he spelt out during ...

The Uttarakhand School Education Council will conduct high school and intermediate examinations in the state from March 5 to 24. Chief Secretary Utpal Kumar Singh has asked Garhwal and Kumaon Commissioners to provide adequate security to managers and invigilators of examination centres to help them stop students from using unfair means in the exam, saying guardians of students create chaos ...

Dehradun police on Sunday launched an initiative -‘Sukhad’ in which free pickup and drop facilities will be provided to women on Sundays. Police will provide free pick-and-drop facility to women going shopping, travelling or other work in the city on Sunday. This facility will be available in the city from 10 am to 10 pm, as per the planning of ...