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A State grappling with the problem of migration

A decade ago, when Uttarakhand was carved out of Uttar Pradesh, Bhairav Datt hoped that his sons would not have to leave their home to look for jobs in either Delhi or Lucknow. But now, while his third son is preparing for his class X…

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Border villages deserted

Since adolescence, Tappar Singh, 52, a resident of Kunja village in Chamoli district had been involved in farming. But now he runs a small sweets shop in Galnau, a hamlet en route to Gairsain. Heading a family of four, Singh says farming in no longer…

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Rush to foreign lands

For the last one year, Vikas, 22, has been working as support staff at a restaurant in Malaysia. For a special event he has arrived in his village – Vand Anuwa – nestled in a beautiful valley in Ghansali belt of Tehri Garhwal district. Vikas,…

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Ghost villages

From the buzzing Rudraprayag town in the Garhwal hills, the 11-kilometre serpentine steep muddy stretch leads to more than half -a-dozen villages dotted on the hillside. In the last few years, theses villages – Cham Gudhera, Bilota, Gwar, Bauntha and Barsu have witnessed mass migration…

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Uttarakhand: Migration setting political fronts

New Delhi: In poll-bound Uttarakhand, migration of youth has always been a major issue but these elections, even the top state leadership seems to be migrating away from the hills. They’re contesting elections from the more comfortable Tarai region. [more]

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State plains most populous, hills least

Tribune News service Dehradun, April 1 The provisional census report suggests that the three plain districts, comprising Udham Singh Nagar (33.40 per cent), Haridwar (33.16 per cent), Dehradun (32.4 per cent) and hill district of Nainital (25.20 per cent), have witnessed a maximum increase in…

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Highlanders in the flatlands

Times of India 25 Nov, 2002 NEW DELHI: Dayal Singh Rana, like many of his peers, left home in the Tehri Hills 24 years back and came to the flatlands to try his luck out. Working his way through menial tasks in wayside dhabas and…

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Fleeing the Mountains: Downhill Migration

With few job opportunities in the Garhwal hills and no other means of income, more and more hill people head downhill towards the big cities in search of a livelihood. By Mahesh Uniyal Time has stood still in Byasi’s roadside market ever since the first…

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