SMA Kazmi, Tribune News Service
Dehradun, June 24
The magnitude of death and destruction caused by massive landslides in the mid-Himalayan region of Uttarakhand during the past decade points to the alarming rise in human interference in a fragile mountain eco-system that happens to fall in a seismically active zone.
The release of national guidelines for the management [...]

BD Kasniyal, Tribune
Pitthoragarh, May 19
Villagers of Kumaon, disappointed with their elected representatives for failure to provide them water, roads and electricity, boycotted the just-concluded Lok Sabha elections. The EVMs installed in their polling booths did not register a single vote.
The villagers of Sumgarh in Bageshwar district were disappointed with the construction of a tunnel in [...]

Shishir Prashant / Business Standard / Dehra Dun May 04, 2009
Although both the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the two main parties in Uttarakhand, are targeting each other for not improving the economic health of the hill state, politics on the real developmental issues is yet to pick up momentum despite the Lok [...]

SMA Kazmi
Tribune News Service, February 28, 2009
Uttarakhand has not remained unaffected by global economic meltdown. Once a hot favourite destination of the industry following the announcement of an industrial package in 2003, the situation has worsened for all major companies.
While the big ones have started scaling down their production and are retrenching staff, the micro, [...]

Subhash Mishra, India Today
Lucknow, December 30, 2008
Gloom and desperation continues to engulf the small hilly state of Uttarakhand, created eight years back in 2000 as economic disparity and development continues to widen the rift between the hilly and plain regions of the state.
A number of Uttarakhand people sacrificed their lives, bore the brunt [...]

The following informed commentary by Devesh Pant on the government’s decision to privatise hydro plants throughout Uttarakhand should arouse concern and action to thwart the “colossal” sell out of Uttarakhand’s patrimony at fire-sale prices.
To the Editor, The Garhwal Post,
Sir,
Today’s front page news should arouse every Uttarakhandi. Selling off Uttarakhand’s Hydro-Power houses is putting a [...]

Harish Chandola
Mainstream, Vol XLVI, No 19, Sunday 27 April 2008
The Uttarakhand government is acquiring land all over the State for building, expanding and renewing 98 hydropower projects. With this large-scale activity it seeks to make the State a major powerhouse. Most of these will be, what is called, run-of-the-river projects, generating power from the flow [...]

Business Standard / New Delhi/ Dehra Dun November 21, 2007
Amid reports that a large chunk of agri land has fallen into the hands of land builders and industrialists in Uttarakhand, the state government is contemplating special agriculture zone (SAZ) to protect agriculture.
“We want to protect agriculture, for which we want to bring SAZ in Uttarakhand,” [...]

Jaskiran Chopra
Times of India, 8 Nov 2007
DEHRA DUN: It is music to the ears of builders in Uttarakhand, but, many residents are warning that the cacophony of construction could destroy Dehra Dun’s peace. Fulfiling a long-standing demand, the state government has decided to allow construction of highrise buildings in the state. [more]

Combat Law, September-October 2007
After getting full statehood in November 2000, Uttarakhand has become even easier target for the vested interests of private entrepreneurs in collusion with the political leadership of the state, reveals Suresh Nautiyal.
This monsoon, as we moved closer to Gangotari from the holy town of Uttarkashi, the hum of demon-sized machines, bulldozing sounds [...]