Bali Devi Rana, Head of the Mahila Mangal Dal (Women Welfare Group) of village Reni (Chamoli Garhwal, Uttarakhand, India) has recently returned from the Global Women’s Conference on Environment, organized by UNEP at Nairobi (Kenya) on 11-13 October 2004, where she shared the inaugural stage with Nobel peace laureate Prof Wangari Maathai. In the 30-odd [...]

Dehra Dun, Oct 31 : With agitation over the demand of declaring Gairsain as the capital of Uttaranchal intensifying, the state government appears to be in two minds over granting an extension to the Virendra Dixit Commission set up to find a suitable place for a permanent capital. The tenure of Dixit Commission ends today [...]

Posted to Mountain Forum, October 28, 2004
Concerned that most of the agreements made at different global conferences in the last 32 years still remain un-honoured, over 200 women from more than 50 countries gathered at Global Women’s Assembly on Environment: “Women as the Voice for the Environment”, organized by UNEP at Nairobi (Kenya) on 11-13 [...]

[Technology India]: Tehri, Oct.26 : As the Tehri Hydro Power project enters its final phase, there is an atmosphere of discontent over lack of proper rehabilitation for the people displaced from the area. So much so, that they have now threatened to stall the final phase of the project if their demands are not met.
The [...]

The Uttarakhand movement for permanent capital at Gairsain, which began on Sept. 25, 2004 has completed one month. Fast unto death by Mrs. Bhubneshwari Devi Kathaith has entered the 12th day and her health is reported to be deteriorating.
In the meantime, amid unconfirmed reports, the police tried to take here away for medical check-up and [...]

[India News]: Dehradun, Oct 24 : Work at the Tehri hydroelectric project has been stalled as villagers, unhappy with their rehabilitation package, refuse evacuation. While most of old Tehri has already been submerged, a few pockets still remain inhabited and their closure is absolutely essential for Tehri’s first power grid to be operational by 2005.
Dam [...]

[India News]: Agar (Uttaranchal), Oct. 23 : Villagers living near a controversial dam are on hunger strike protesting the high tension power lines which pass over their houses and fields.
The 800 kilo watt wires are to transmit power to northern Indian towns after the Tehri dam in Uttaranchal becomes functional. Hundreds of these cables crisscross [...]

Press Club, Dehradun
October 21, 2004

Bali Devi being greeted by Maasai women in Kenya. (courtesy of IISD)The Alliance for Development organized a press conference at the Press Club, Dehra Dun on 21 October 2004, on the return of Bali Devi and Biju Negi from the Global Women’s Assembly on Environment, at Nairobi (Kenya). The following Press [...]

Oct, 18, 2004 saw a very big rally at Gairsain. This was the largest gathering since the movement intesified on Oct. 02, 2004. The rally was attended by over 1,000 people including the newly elected MLA from Dwarahat Mr. Pushpesh Tripathi.
Today, the police force came to lift Mrs. Kamla Sah on her 10th day of [...]

TIMES NEWS NETWORK [SUNDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2004 06:10:22 AM]
DEHRA DUN: Pushpesh Tripathi, oldest son of senior Uttarakhand Kranti Dal (UKD) leader late Vipin Tripathi, on Saturday won the Dwarahat byelection. [more]
Also, please read Imperative Of An Alternative Platform from People’s Democracy for background on the political situation in Uttarakhand on the left.