Rajiv Rawat May 31, 2003 Distinguished for its healthy climate, scenic beauty, and abundant amenities, Dehradun lies in the centre of the unique and ecologically sensitive Doon Valley, and currently serves as the provisional capital of Uttaranchal state. One of the larger urban agglomeration in…
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…
PUCL Bulletin, October 2002 by K.N. Bhatt, GB Pant Social Science Institute, Allahabad (Excerpts) Creation of Uttarakhand is, in fact, an outcome of the peoples’ long struggle for survival amidst the extreme conditions of regional economic backwardness and high rates of unemployment. The local people…
The Hoot (September 9, 2002) Sevanti Ninan Did you know that Dehradun was a major publishing centre? There are eleven daily newspapers and no less than 84 weeklies coming out of here. If you look closer though, you might find that many of these have…
Uttarakhand vs. Uttaranchal – the controversy is more than a debate over semantics. It strikes at the core of our identity as a people, and what our people struggled for in the Uttarakhand Andolan. The fact that a state was formed in November 2000 bearing…
Even as media proliferates in the wake of statehood for the Uttarakhand region, its primary challenge is to engage meaningfully with issues that are related to the environment The Hoot (August 9, 2002) Manjula Lal & Sevanti Ninan In a broad sense environment is the…
The fading gains of Himalayan conservation Bharat Dogra, June 2002 Rishikesh, June 5 2002, (IPS): The bare slopes where pine forests once thrived is a sure sign that the famous chipko conservation movement of the 1970s and 1980s, which drew world attention to this once…
Twenty years ago this June, RAMACHANDRA GUHA began a secular pilgrimage to the Alakananda Valley. His destination was Gopeshwar and his mission was to pay tribute to Chandi Prasad Bhatt, founder of the Chipko Movement. On the occasion of World Environment Day on June 5,…
By Meera Rawat IN Kandai, Pauri, Basanti Devi, who is about 50 years old now, has been fighting for the future of mountain folk. She has been among the active women participants in all the rallies in the Uttarakhand region. She has crossed the boundary…
A post poll survey in Uttaranchal was conducted after the 2002 State Assembly Elections in 42 polling stations of 14 assembly constituencies. The sample of assembly constituencies was drawn randomly using the probability proportionate to size (PPS) method and three polling booths in each of…
Dehradun’s Distress
Rajiv Rawat May 31, 2003 Distinguished for its healthy climate, scenic beauty, and abundant amenities, Dehradun lies in the centre of the unique and ecologically sensitive Doon Valley, and currently serves as the provisional capital of Uttaranchal state. One of the larger urban agglomeration in…
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