By Purnima S. Tripathi The Hindu, New Delhi, Aug. 1 After a stormy start, and despite the controversy about Udham Singh Nagar and Hardwar, the Uttar Pradesh Reorganisation Bill, 2000, was passed by the Lok Sabha on Tuesday by a voice vote without a hitch,…
Tribune News Service and UNI NEW DELHI, Aug 1 — A Bill seeking to create Uttaranchal as a separate state comprising 13 districts of Uttar Pradesh, including Udham Singh Nagar and Hardwar, was carried by vote in the Lok Sabha today. The Uttar Pradesh reorganisation…
Rajendra Bansal/Dehra Dun The Pioneer / August 2, 2000 Emerging from a long dark tunnel of pessimism and despair, the votaries of separate Uttarakhand state took out victory processions and indulged in festivities throughout the region on Wednesday to celebrate the passage of the Uttarakhand…
By R P Nailwal The Times of India News Service 17 July 2000 DEHRA DUN: Uttarakhand Jan Vikas Party declared here on Sunday that it would launch a stir in all the 12 hill districts if the Uttar Pradesh Reorganisation Bill 2000 is not introduced…
By R P Nailwal The Times of India News Service 14 July 2000 DEHRA DUN: Though at the end of the summer session of Parliament, the Centre had announced that the UP Reorganisation Bill, 2000, for the creation of a separate hill state, would be…
In many ways the last year and a half have been positive for the Uttarakhand movement. The movement shifted its focus from dharnas and agitations on the streets to discussions in drawing rooms and seminar halls. Anoop Kumar Doon City Chronicle, June 1999 If a…
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]
THE seeds of trouble were sown three years ago when the then chief minister Mayawati declared the formation of Udham Singh Nagar district in the Kumaon region of Uttar Pradesh. Now it has grown into a full-blown harvest of discontent, with rich Terai farmers and…
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…