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PTI: Bahuguna joins endeavour against SEZ

Dehra Dun, April. 22 (PTI): Noted Chipko leader Sunderlal Bahuguna, along with scores of farmers, today extended his support to environmentalist Anil P Joshi in his endeavour against the special economic zones. Joshi, who started his ‘1000-km Cycle Yatra’ from Parthal village in Jammu and…

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BS: Uttarakhand to bring new agri policy

Business Standard / Dehra Dun April 14, 2007 Declaring that it would not allow the repeat of any Nandigram-like episode in Uttarakhand, the state government today announced that it would shortly bring a separate agriculture policy with an aim to protect the rapidly shrinking agri-land…

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PTI (2006.6.2): Women panchayat leaders vow to fight corruption

The New Kerala Times often carries PTI articles on Uttaranchal. Check with them for some of the latest news. Kotdwar (Uttaranchal): Over 300 elected women representatives of local panchayats today pledged to fight corruption in the state and threatened to launch a mass campaign against…

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Rediff (2006.4.24): Realty prices skyrocket in Dehradun

The pressures brought about by unbalanced development are stunning. If the Supreme Court ban is lifted, we can say goodbye to any remaining livability for the city. The city’s environment is already badly frayed and actually carrying capacity needs to be measured and respected, to…

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UNI (2006.1.7): Badal demands Uttaranchal CM's resignation

This is interesting, as Badal is known to owns enormous tracts of illegal land in the Terai. Wealthy Punjabi farmers have also largely evade land ceiling laws through illegal Benami transactions. Calling the Kashipur incident akin to 1984 riots is gross irresponsibility. Amritsar, UNI: The…

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ANI (2006.1.2): Demolition drive against illegal properties in Uttaranchal

Udham Singh Nagar (Uttaranchal): District administration in Uttaranchal started a demolition drive against buildings constructed on government land in Udham Singh Nagar on Monday. Following a recent order by the Supreme Court, authorities recovered farms of over 1050 acres, which were illegally occupied by some…

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Urban India into buying more houses

Will cottages for the rich displace local people and lead to land speculation, as well as overwhelm the infrastructure and ecological balance of the region? By Raja Awasthi, Times News Network Ever thought of getting out of the clutter of urban life and spending your…

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Update on Udham Singh Nagar Land Usurpations

Rajiv Rawat, September 2004 I have recently received news about an old issue that was covered on the uttarakhand web site over 4 years ago. VB Rawat, an old colleague and human rights activist, just informed me that a supreme court judgement has ordered the…

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Uttaranchal dilutes Land Ordinance

By Our Staff Correspondent The Hindu, Saturday, Dec 06, 2003 DEHRA DUN DEC. 5. The Uttaranchal Cabinet has watered down the provisions of the controversial Land Ordinance. Now the Ordinance, to become an Act during the coming Assembly session, will not be applicable to urban…

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Hardwar’s sants resist land ceiling laws

HARDWAR, Aug 24: First it was the landowners of Udham Singh Nagar, now it’s the sants of Hardwar. The issue is the same: the land ceiling laws in the proposed state of Uttaranchal. [more]

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