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Dehradun (/ ˌ d ɛr ə ˈ d uː n /, ISO: Dēharādūna), also known as Dehra Doon, is the winter capital [13] and the most populous city of the Indian state of Uttarakhand.It is the administrative headquarters of the eponymous district and is governed by the Dehradun Municipal Corporation, with the Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly holding its winter sessions in the city as its winter capital ...
The district headquarters is Dehradun, which has also served as the interim capital of Uttarakhand since its founding in 2000. The district has 6 tehsils, 6 community development blocks, 17 towns and 764 inhabited villages, and 18 unpopulated villages. As of 2011, it is the second most populous district of Uttarakhand (out of 13), after ...
92.21%. • Female. 80.78%. • Rank. 2nd. Sex ratio (2011) 875 ♀ / 1000 ♂. Rishikesh, also spelt as Hrishikesh, is a city near Dehradun in the Indian state Uttarakhand. The northern part of Rishikesh is in the Dehradun district while the southern part is in the Tehri Garhwal district.
UK 07, UK 09. Mussoorie is a hill station and a municipal board, in Dehradun city in the Dehradun district of the Indian state Uttarakhand. It is about 35 kilometres (22 mi) from the state capital of Dehradun and 290 km (180 mi) north of the national capital of New Delhi. The hill station is in the foothills of the Garhwal Himalayan range.
Dehradun municipality. The Dehradun Municipal Corporation is the civic or urban local body [1] [2] that governs the city of Dehradun in Uttarakhand, India.It is essentially the city government and differs from the MDDA (Mussoorie Dehradun Development Board), which is a state run organisation.
Bindal River (also Bindal Rao) flows through Dehradun in Uttarakhand, India, and is fed by a number of springs at the base of Mussoorie ridge. [1] Due to unchecked development and encroachment around the river, the river water has been contaminated with hazardous pollutants and chemicals. [2] In 2019, the government of Uttarakhand initiated a ...
Song River at Raipur. The Song River in Dehradun district drains the central and eastern part of the Doon Valley, in the state of Uttarakhand, India.A tributary of Sooswa river, which in turn is a tributary of the Ganges, it originates as spring-fed stream in the southern slopes of the Radi Top of Mussoorie ridge of the Himalayan range and runs from Dhanaulti towards Narendranagar. [1]
In 1901, Dehradun had a population of 24,039, [7] and was a district of British India, in the Meerut division of the United Provinces, [10] while the neighbouring town of Rajpur, which lay en route to the hill-station of Mussourie, and from where pure drinking water was supplied to the city through pipes, had a population of 2,900. [14]