It is an open secret that student elections throughout India have become training grounds for future goonda-cum-politicians. In Uttarakhand and in particular Dehradun, the situation has only worsened over the years with several colleges playing host to shocking and uproarious scenes of hooliganism every election.…
The two university movement martyrs, who died on December 15, 1972, in police firing demanding a separate Kumaon University, were remembered by the students of PG College and many student leaders at a function here today. The chairman of Pitthoragarh Nagar Palika Parishad and former…
Hindustan Times, Sat, Apr 12 01:00 AM HUNDREDS OF teachers of the Kumaon University will stay away from work on April 17 in protest against the B.C Khanduri-led BJP government’s controversial decision to enact the Uttarakhand State Universities’ Bill 2008. “Teachers of both Nainital and…
Garhwal Post, October 7, 2007 Srinagar, 6 Oct: The historic first conference of the Uttarakhand History and Culture Association concluded this weekend at H.N.B. Garhwal University in Srinagar, with delegates setting the baseline for professionalism and further growth in scholarly activities in the state. Honoured…
A forum for the children of the mountains. By Santosh Mehta Hindu Business Line, March 23, 2007 Twenty-five years of work in the region has proved to the Shri Bhuvneshwari Mahila Ashram (SBMA), a Garhwal-based voluntary organisation in Uttarakhand, that it pays to tap the…
By Rajiv Rawat Garhwal Post 21 December 2006 Recently I had the good fortune to visit Nainital for the first time. The town was wonderful surprise. Naini lake itself seemed quite clean and a far cry from the grim warnings of its imminent demise I…
Garhwal Post, 26 September 2006 A unique graduation ceremony took place at the Nerhu Institute of Mountaineering on Saturday, where thirty-eight youth hailing mostly from the upper reaches of Chamoli, but also from Uttarkashi and Pithoragarh districts, completed their basic mountaineering course. Organized by SPECS…
Lalit Pande: Qualification: MIT, IIT-D. Now runs environmental education programme, USN, in 2,500 Uttarakhand schools. Outlook 18 September 2006 A quiet man, someone said. You may find it hard to make him talk. But when it matters, Lalit Pande can talk. The late afternoon light,…
Sanat Mohanty 27 May 2006 A residential school for girls, in the shadow of the peak of Nanda Devi, has been graduating confident young women from the girls of Kumaon hills. Run as per the ideas of Nai Taleem of Gandhiji, Lakshmi Ashram was set…
Government and aided schools to be governed by same rules DEHRA DUN: The Uttaranchal School Education Bill, 2006, was passed in the Vidhan Sabha here on Wednesday paving the way for uniform education and decentralisation of powers up to the Nyay Panchayat level. Giving out…
Student elections: the origins of corrupt politics
It is an open secret that student elections throughout India have become training grounds for future goonda-cum-politicians. In Uttarakhand and in particular Dehradun, the situation has only worsened over the years with several colleges playing host to shocking and uproarious scenes of hooliganism every election.…
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