AISA’s Uttarakhand State Conference was held on 15-16 Feb at Dehradun with a resolve to fight against the policies of the UPA Govt. which are not different from its predecessor Govt.. The Conference pointed that the central govt. is carrying forward the imperialist agenda endangering democracy and only way left before the students and youth [...]

The following segment from the Garhwal Post lead editorial for February 20-26, 2005 spells out clearly what is at stake if any fresh round of assembly seat delimitation is attempted. The already widening gap between the plains and hills would be further exacerbated, nullifying the whole raison-d’etre of statehood, especially with massive migration to Uttaranchal’s [...]

“Govt is selling off state’s rivers”: Mahila Manch opposes Falenda River Project By OUR STAFF REPORTER Garhwal Post, February 20-26, 2005 DEHRADUN:The Mahila Manch and ‘Chetna Andolan’ expressed opposition on behalf of local villagers in Tehri district to the Falenda River Project on the Bhilangana river, at a press conference held at the Uttaranchal Press [...]

Apart from the location of capital, Uttaranchal is facing a demographic quandary as a new delimitation process based on the 2001 census will shift the balance of power to the plains districts, defeating the very purpose of a hill state. This should cause grave concern to all Uttarakhand activists who foresaw this eventuality, given the [...]

DEHRA DUN, Feb. 14. — They were once ready to die for it. Now they love for it. In the land of the first tree-huggers of the world, about 150 young men and women planted saplings to say the most revered four-letter word on Valentine’s Day today. It helped that the saplings came for free [...]

Indian Express, February 14, 2005 S.M.A. KAZMI DEHRA DUN, FEBRUARY 13: Despite clear cut orders from the Centre to halt eviction of forest-dwellers temporarily, in view of the proposed law to give propriety rights to them, Uttaranchal government has hastened the process to evict Gujjars from the proposed Rajaji National Park, thereby sparking a protest. [...]

THE second state conference of Uttarakhand CPI(M) was held at Rishikesh on 15 and 16 January. The venue of the conference was the Rishikesh Town Hall which was named Nayanar Nagar in memory of Comrade E K Nayanar. The entire town and chiefly the Haridwar – Badrinath route was decorated with party festoons, flags and [...]

Please urge the state and central authorities to give refuge to our Nepali neighbours who are fleeing from repression in Nepal, reminiscent of Indira Gandhi’s own emergency that almost destroyed Indian democracy. DEHRA DUN, FEBRUARY 6: Fearing arrest following the emergency in Nepal, a former minister and several political leaders have slipped out to neighbouring [...]