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Main building of The Doon School. In Uttarakhand there are 15,331 primary schools with 1,040,139 students and 22,118 working teachers (Year 2011). As per 2011 Census of India, the literacy rate of the state was 78.82% with 87.40% literacy for males and 70.01% literacy for females. [1]
Cheli Aipan is a government initiative, to promote the Aipan art form. [10] With an aim to promote the local art form of Uttarakhand and to encourage the artists, The Aipan Resort [11] was established in Chopta, Rudraprayag, Uttarakhand. The resort aims at bringing the local art to a single place and practising its raw form.
The state song of Uttarakhand is a hymn, praising Uttarakhand as a divine motherland. Written by Hemant Bisht and composed by noted Uttarakhandi folk singer and musician Narendra Singh Negi , this song is trilingual with first three of its seven verses written in Hindi , while the last four verses are written in Garhwali and Kumaoni languages.
The Doon School (informally Doon School or Doon) is a selective all-boys private boarding school in Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India, which was established in 1935. It was envisioned by Satish Ranjan Das , a lawyer from Calcutta , as a school modelled on the British public school while remaining conscious of Indian ambitions and desires.
Upon completing the required coursework, students can enroll in general or professional undergraduate (UG) degree-college programmes. Schools in the state are either managed by the government or by private trusts. The majority of public schools are affiliated with the Uttarakhand Board of School Education (UBSE) use Hindi as a medium of ...
[3] [4] [2] [5] It also includes an art gallery encouraging younger generation of artists to exhibit modern and contemporary art. [ 3 ] [ 6 ] The museum is located in one of the Earthquake zones of India and is housed in a specially constructed building to withstand high intensity earthquake and extreme weather conditions.
Ramnagar is a gateway to the Corbett National Park, [2] [3] the oldest national park and a famous tourist destination. The Garjiya Devi Temple [4] [5] and Sitabani temple, Sitabani Wildlife Reserve [6] located nearby also attract many visitors. Uttarakhand Board of School Education is headquartered in Ramnagar. The board was set up in 2001, and ...
Radha-Krishna theme, from the Gita Govinda in Pahari style, Garhwal sub-school. Pahari painting (lit. ' a painting from the mountainous regions, pahar meaning a mountain in Hindi ') is an umbrella term used for a form of Indian painting, done mostly in miniature forms, originating from the lower Himalayan hill kingdoms of North India, during the early 17th to mid 19th century, notably Basohli ...