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Website. dehradun.nic.in. Dehradun district (pronunciation ⓘ) is a district in Garhwal which is a part of Uttarakhand state in northern India. 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 ...
The confluence of the Dhauliganga and Alaknanda rivers at Vishnuprayag. Map 3: the Rishiganga and Dhauliganga river valleys shown in a hi-res map based on detailed surveys. The 2021 Uttarakhand flood, also known as the Chamoli disaster, [1] began on 7 February 2021 in the environs of the Nanda Devi National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site [2 ...
Legislative Assembly elections were held in Uttarakhand on 14 February 2022 to elect 70 members of the Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly. The votes were counted and the results were declared on 10 March 2022. It was the first time a current government got re-elected after the creation of Uttarakhand.
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 magistrates are assisted by a number of officers (such as deputy collector, assistant collector, additional district magistrate, sub-divisional magistrate, tehsildar, naib tehsildar belonging to the Uttarakhand Civil Service and other Uttarakhand state services.
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]
The major regional languages of Uttarakhand are Garhwali, which according to the 2011 census is spoken by 23 per cent of the population, mostly in the western half of the state, Kumaoni, spoken in the eastern half and native to 20 per cent, and Jaunsari, whose speakers are concentrated in Dehradun district in the southwest and make up 1.3 per ...
The Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly is the unicameral legislature of the Indian state of Uttarakhand. The seats of the legislative assembly are at Dehradun and Gairsain, the capitals of the state. The term of the Legislative Assembly is five years, unless dissolved earlier. It currently has 70 members, who are directly elected from single-seat ...