Dehradun | May 16, 2005 7:35:57 PM IST In a shocking case of power theft, vigilance sleuths in the state have cracked down on a police station stealing po
Functioning, efficiency of govt depts also to be rated by the survey S.M.A. KAZMI Indian Express, September 9, 2004 DEHRA DUN, SEPTEMBER 8: A decision to rate the most corrupt bureaucrat of the state and also the performance of various state government departments by the…
White elephant By Our Staff Correspondent, The Hindu, 10 August 2004 DEHRA DUN, AUG. 9. Uttaranchal boasts of being a hi-tech State and spends crores of rupees on disaster management and mitigation works. A good portion of this fund has gone into purchasing video conferencing…
The multi-crore trade in illegal timber is being challenged by one man whose main objective is to save the hills of Uttaranchal from being denuded in the name of development India Today, February 2, 2004 Jaya Prakash Dabral, a former corporate executive turned social…
Anupreeta Das Outlook, September 22, 2003 Lush forests are not the only bounty that Uttaranchal got in its kitty after it became a state in November 2000. It also got close to 45,000 NGOs—mind-boggling for a state so tiny, with a population of only 84.7…
PUCL Bulletin January 2002 (Excerpts from the preliminary report of the PUCL released in November 2001. The full report will follow shortly. Copies of the original report in Hindi can be had from Rajendra Dhasmana, G-7 Akashbarti Apartments, 24 – IP extension (Patparganj), Delhi 110…
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…