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The Chief Minister of Uttarakhand Pushkar Singh Dhami announced a compensation of ₹ 0.4 million (US$4,800) for the families of the deceased and ₹ 0.1 million (US$1,200) for the injured. [ 9 ] [ 11 ] Various leaders expressed their condolences on the accident.
The Silkyara Bend–Barkot tunnel was being constructed by contentious [10] Navayuga Engineering Construction Limited (NECL) under National Highways and Infrastructure Development Corporation Limited (NHIDCL) [11] as part of the Char Dham project, intended to connect important Hindu pilgrim sites in Uttarakhand, North India, with two-lane, all-weather paved roads. [12]
Uttarakhand Kranti Dal: 3 Bahujan Mukti Party: 2 Akhil Bharatiya Parivar Party 2 Bharatiya Rashtriya Ekta Dal 2 Uttarakhand Samanta Party 2 Bharatiya Shakti Chetna Party 1 Bharat Ki Lok Jimmedar Party 1 Rashtriya Uttarakhand Party 1 Sainik Samaj Party 1 Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist) 1 Uttarakhand Parivartan Party 1 Total 27
The Uttarakhand government on 11 February 2024 demanded four additional companies of Central Armed Police Forces from the Ministry of Home Affairs after it had already sent four of them earlier. [ 18 ] [ 19 ] The police confirmed that the violence was pre-planned, and that the rioters had attacked the police joint anti-encroachment team without ...
On 5 March 2024, Uttarakhand Police arrested Ashutosh Negi, based on a complaint lodged by a Pauri Garhwal resident under Sections of the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act. Uttarakhand DGP Abhinav Kumar from Kotdwar in a statement to the press: “The intentions of so-called social activists like Ashutosh Negi are suspected.
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
On 4 October 2022, an avalanche at the Draupadi Ka Danda peak in Uttarakhand, India killed 27 mountaineers in the Advanced Mountaineering Course of the Nehru Institute of Mountaineering. [1] The death toll makes this the worst mountaineering disaster recorded in India.
Uttarakhand has a total area of 53,483 km 2 (20,650 sq mi), equal to 1.6% of the total area of India. Dehradun serves as the state capital, with Nainital being the judicial capital. The state is divided into two divisions, Garhwal and Kumaon, with a total of 13 districts. The forest cover in the state is 45.4% of the state's geographical area.