By Our Staff Reporter (The Hindu) Dehra Dun, July 21, 1997 Congress (I) leaders are expressing high hopes of rejuvenating their party in Uttarakhand region after their colleagues table a private Bill in Parliament regarding the formation of the hill State on July 25. This…
Deep Joshi GOPESHWAR (CHAMOLI), June 23: The neglect of the Gopeshwar-based Herbal Research and Development Institute (HRDI) is ample proof of the State Government’s callousness towards conservation of precious medicinal plants found in Uttarakhand. The HRDI had been set up in 1992 to check the…
Sharad Gupta Indian Express, June 20, 1997 GARSAIN, June 19: When Uttarakhand Kranti Dal president Kashi Singh Airi laid the foundation stone of the future capital of his dream state here in 1992, people thought God had finally smiled on Gairsain. But with the Government…
by Sharad Gupta India Express, June 17, 1997 Union Home Minister Indrajit Gupta’s assertions to get the Cabinet’s approval for the Bill for creation of Uttarakhand, comprising nine districts of Uttar Pradesh, notwithstanding, Statehood for the region remains a far cry from reality. For no…
The Indian Express June 07 1997 Gopeshwar : The hill people are exhausted. With the regular rallies and dharnas in favour of a separate Uttarakhand state having got them nowhere, the people’s disillusionment is evident more than ever before. “Even if we get a separate…
Hindustan Times, April 19, 1997 GOPESHWAR (Chamoli), April 18 (From Harish Chandola) The death anniversary of a murdered journalist, Umesh Doval, has provided the occasion to Uttarakhand activists to commemorate it with meetings to express their thoughts on the kind of a hill state they…
Hindustan Times, March 7, 1997 CHAMIALA (Tehri Garhwal), March 6 (From Amitabh Shukla) The sleepy town of Chamiala in Tehri Garhwal district of Uttar Pradesh and the neighbouring areas have all what a nature lover would ask for. Beautiful mountains, rivers and simple hill folks,…
Hindustan Times, March 3, 1997 CHAMIALA (Tehri Garhwal), March 3 (From Amitabh Shukla) A movement at the village and block level against corruption, pilferage of funds and the right to information is slowly picking momentum in the villages in and around Chamiala in Tehri Garhwal…
From C. K. Chandramohan (The Hindu) PAURI GARHWAL, Aug. 30, 1996 Now that the emergence of Uttarakhand as the 26th State in the near future seems a possibility following the Prime Minister, Mr. H. D. Deve Gowda’s announcement from the Red Fort on Independence Day,…
From Our Staff Reporter (The Hindu) PAURI GARHWAL, Aug. 30, 1996 Promotion of lesser known natural beauty spots and shrines for pilgrims, domestic and foreign tourists and adventure sports like skiing and river rafting, revival of the age old `chatti’ system, a broad based network…