By Rajiv Rawat
Over the past few weeks, the issue of traffic congestion and road accidents has taken centre stage, not only in Dehradun where the crisis is severe, but also throughout the state where an alarming number of buses have slipped off the roads and into deep khuds this past year. Indeed, in just the [...]

By Rajiv Rawat
Garhwal Post, November 23, 2006
State Formation Day, the CII “Uttaranchal” Fair, and the Uttarakhand Mahotsav have come and gone from the desert scrub of the once lush Parade and Rangers’ Grounds. The glossy pamphlets and display tables of the various state agencies were impressive. Even more stunning was the incredible talent displayed during [...]

Dehradun (July 10): The UKD staged a sit-in in front of Dehradun SDM’s residence and promised to gherao the chief minister to protest extensive omissions in newly revised BPL lists. These omissions as well as the transcription of the list into roman characters threatens to put benefits out of the reach of many poor families. [...]

Uttaranchal September 08, 2005 3:29:35 PM IST
Health services in many of the hill districts of Uttaranchal are in poor condition. With no medicines or proper treatment facilities available in public health centers despite government’s proclaimed policy initiatives, the situation is far from being satisfactory.
The local primary health centres that are meant to take care the [...]

Dehradun, October 04, 2004 3:41:51 PM IST
(ANI) Sweepers in Dehradun have been on strike for the past 10 days. leaving the capital of Uttaranchal without an effective waste disposal system.
So hazardous has the situation become, that the state administration has ordered the state police to chip in and clean the city’s streets.
The striking sweepers are [...]

Just eight months ago in Dhari, a village in Pithoragarh, Uttaranchal, liquor had made life hell for women. There were drunken brawls; women would be abused in front of their wailing children. But today, according to a Civil Society report, men here do not dare to drink. Says Meena, leader of Mahila Mangal Dal, “We [...]