[PGG-Regd Trust] Digest Number 1664 - The Pauri Garhwal Group, Uttaranchal, Uttarakhand

PRANAM - We all belongs to Uttarakhand
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A wedding story needed for my magazine.... From: Kamayani Pant
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thanks for joining me in this group... From: ankur rawat
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Need A job in News paper Industry From: dinesh singh
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Re: Should Answer Sheet be Revealed From: Suresh Kumar
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questioning the credibility and integrity of Uttarkhandi people From: indresh thapliyal
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questioning the credibility and integrity of Uttarkhandi people From: indresh thapliyal
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questioning the credibility and integrity of Uttarkhandi people From: sukhbant singh
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Re: questioning the credibility and integrity of Uttarkhandi people From: Radha Raman Joshi
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Fw: for job From: sumant binjola
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Re: qualish/tata sumo requirement for Pauri Garhwal From: mukesh negi
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A wedding story needed for my magazine....
Posted by: "Kamayani Pant" kimiisqueen@yahoo.com kimiisqueen
Thu Apr 10, 2008 9:27 pm (PDT)
Dear Friends,I am doing an article on weddings(where we shall feature a wedding held recently). If there has been a wedding in your family in last 4-5 months then we would like to do a foto feature on that wedding...for which i shall require some pics of the wedding, (the mahila sangeet, the bride and groom, the family etc) and also the following questions need to be answered...i might even need to talk to someone from the family for any further details.A wedding StoryWedding DateWedding Venue-Reception venue- Groom and Bride's namesGrooms side – Family fromFather's and Mother's nameBride's side Family fromFather and Mother's nameCelebrations started on withTotal no of GuestsShopping from Bride's Trousseau fromGrooms dressingJewellery fromCaterersPhotography byMehendi byBride's make-up byCars etc byHoneymoon Destination of the coupleHotel's nameHoneymoon pic required
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thanks for joining me in this group...
Posted by: "ankur rawat" ankur_rawat_86@yahoo.co.in ankur_rawat_86
Thu Apr 10, 2008 9:28 pm (PDT)
Dear,All friends thanks for informing me about this unique group of uttarakhandis. ......... ......... ....Ankur Rawat
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Need A job in News paper Industry
Posted by: "dinesh singh" dinesh2020@gmail.com
Thu Apr 10, 2008 9:29 pm (PDT)
Dear Members,I Need a Job in Any Daily Newspaper in Delhi or Uttranchal. If anybody worksin any Newspaper Pl. Help Me. My Profile is Graphic Designer.
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Re: Should Answer Sheet be Revealed
Posted by: "Suresh Kumar" rawat_suresh@yahoo.com rawat_suresh
Thu Apr 10, 2008 9:29 pm (PDT)
G han Kandpal g aise kanon th jarur hona chahiy but agar us per sahe dhang se lagu karaya jay, uska misuse na ho. Kunki Govt of India/State Govt mey ik RTI (Right to Information) ka kanoon bana hai jab se ye bana hai tho jaruratmand logo ko soochna tho kam hee mil rahee hai but log iska misuse jyada kar rahy hai.unwanted information k bary mey jyada puch rahy hai hai, is se office mey kam tho bhe badha hai lekin sahee soochna fir bhe nahee mil rahi hai.is liye kanon koye bhe bany jab tak us par sahi dhang se kam na ho tho kanon bana kar kya hoga kewal KANON KE KITABO mey hee band ho jayega.with regardsSuresh RawatSubhash Kandpal <subhash@tisindia. com> wrote:Dosto,Educatioin aur career hamare jeevan ka 1 mahtavpoorn ang hai jo ki hamaara bhavishya nirdharit karte hai. Socho yadi koee enhi ke saath khilwaad kare to eska parinaam kya ho sakta hai, hum eska andaaja laga sakte hai.Dosto bahut samay sunne ko milta hai..jab kaee students aur anya pratiyogi kahte hai ki mera faalana paper/exam to bahut achha hua tha....lekin fir bhi mai pass nahi ho paaya yaa mera selection nahi huaa........ kyoun?... mai matra 1 or 2 numbers se fail ho gaya ....socho us samay unke dil par kya gujarti hogi?Dosto waise koee exam yaa compition pass karna hamari apni mehnat par nirbhar karta hai..jaisi mehnat hum karenge waise hi fal humko milega. Lekin kabhi kabhi hum mehnat to poora karte hai lekin uske anusaar humko parinaam prapt nahi hota hai aur eske doshi kaee hote hai, jo yaa to apni jimmedari sahi tarah se nahi nibhate hai yaa aur bhi kaee karan ho sakte hai.Bahut baar sunne ko milta hai ki falana board ki copy kachre me mili.....yaa Teachers ke bachhon ko copiyan jaanchte hua paaya gaya yaa Falaane ne paise dekar exam pass kiya yaa paise men digree khareedi gayi? Eska asar kis par padega, kon eska parinaam bhugtega? Dosto mera mukhya vindu yah hai ki kya kisi bhi exam/compitition ke baad Answer sheet humko dikhayi jaani chahiye? Kya ab aisa samay aa gaya hai jab humko es prakaar ka adhikaar milna chahiye ki jab kabhi bhi hum koee exam/compitition dete hai to parinaam ghoshit hone ke baad awashyktanusaar humko apni answer sheet dekh saken.Dosto yadi koee aisa kanoon banta hai to nishit hi eske kaee dhanatmak prabhav hamare samaaj me dekhene ko milenge. Sabse pahla jo labh milega wo hai Pardarshita ki. Education ya anya kisi bhi compition me Pardarshita hogi...hamein bhi apne ko mulyankit karne ka moka milega ki hum me kami kaha thi....aur humko aur kitna achha karne ki jaroorat hai.Doosra sabse bada fayda Corruption par rok lagne me milegi. Bahut baar sunne ko milta hai ki yaar waha to pahle se hi fix hai.....waha to unke apne bande hai.....koee fayda nahi form bharne ka...waha to unka "Jugaad" hai. Kahne ka matlab hai ki aisa kanoon aane se kaee fayde ho sakte hai.....jiska andaaja aap log bhi laga sakte hai.....esme mujhe kuch jyada likhne ki awasykata nahi hai.Mere yaha par likhne ka ek matra udeshya ye hai ki "Kya wastav me humko 1 aise kanoon ki jaroorat hai, jo hamare aane wali peedi ko yaa hamare un Pratiyogi Bhai-Bahinon ko ye adhikaar de ki we sawayam apni Answer Sheet ka mulyankan kar saken (Awashyakta Padne Par).Apne sujhav jaroor den.DhanyabaadSubhash Kandpal____________ _________ _________ _________ _________ __Do You Yahoo!?Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail. yahoo.com
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questioning the credibility and integrity of Uttarkhandi people
Posted by: "indresh thapliyal" ikt@rediffmail.com indresh08
Thu Apr 10, 2008 9:31 pm (PDT)
Hi all,i have read all the comments and explanation given by all the respective pgg members.It is realy admirable to all of you who are so confident in our culture. All have shown a way to the person who have still doubt about uttrakhandi culture by the mean of presenting/describi ng the actual picture.I am totally agree with MR Rajiv Naithani, that what Mr Narender Pawar was doing there? before making blame on others Ist blame on yourselve, you were present there so why you have not started first, what for you were waiting, to make a comment only? or what else?dear narender i feel you are not very open to the people and less involving yourseves with the friends, relatives and villagers otherwise you mus have known how rich people are there in the uttrakhand, how co-operative and soft they are. It is know to all over india even in any part of india. Our community is known for honesty, dedications, royalty, hardworking and soft behaviour.Not going much on the subject, only want to make clear to you and similar others, first change yourselve, positively you will see evry thing has been changed in right way.I myself is one example to love my country and more where my birth took place i.e garhwal. I could never forget my origin. This is the only way to get success. Origin give everyone their identity to get ahead in life. we are proud we belongs to culture where moral values are highly respected.Indresh Thapliyal9993031570
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questioning the credibility and integrity of Uttarkhandi people
Posted by: "indresh thapliyal" ikt@rediffmail.com indresh08
Thu Apr 10, 2008 9:32 pm (PDT)
>>>Hi all,>>>i have read all the comments and explanation given by all the respective pgg members.It is realy admirable to all of you who are so confident in our culture. All have shown a way to the person who have still doubt about uttrakhandi culture by the mean of presenting/describi ng the actual picture.>>I am totally agree with MR Rajiv Naithani, that what Mr Narender Pawar was doing there? before making blame on others Ist blame on yourselve, you were present there so why you have not started first, what for you were waiting, to make a comment only? or what else?>>dear narender i feel you are not very open to the people and less involving yourseves with the friends, relatives and villagers otherwise you mus have known how rich people are there in the uttrakhand, how co-operative and soft they are. It is know to all over india even in any part of india. Our community is known for honesty, dedications, royalty, hardworking and soft behaviour.>>>Not going much on the subject, only want to make clear to you and similar others, first change yourselve, positively you will see evry thing has been changed in right way.>>>I myself is one example to love my country and more where my birth took place i.e garhwal. I could never forget my origin. This is the only way to get success. Origin give everyone their identity to get ahead in life. we are proud we belongs to culture where moral values are highly respected.>>>Indresh Thapliyal>9993031570>>>>>>>>>>>>
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questioning the credibility and integrity of Uttarkhandi people
Posted by: "sukhbant singh" sukhbant23@yahoo.co.in sukhbant23
Thu Apr 10, 2008 9:33 pm (PDT)
Rajiv bhai I am happy to know our views about our people.We are always busy in finding fault in our people and appreciating others.This is really demoralising !!!Rajiv Naithani <rajiv.naithani@ globallogic. com> wrote:Dear All,I think people who are questioning the credibility and integrity of Uttarkhandi people are doubting on self identity. Before we raise finger on entire community, the first question should be would we be left out from this blame? It’s not the group of people who think this way rather it’s individual who is known based on individual identity. There are lost many other examples wherein people from our state have been appreciated a lot not just for their honesty but also for their valour. Do we ever come up and appreciate those?? I hardly see any mail chain being exchanged on such topics but seems we are the best critics and believe in using sarcasm to upset entire community. I am somehow feeling really bad the way this entire mail chain has been subjected and presented. This entire incident definitely cannot be appreciated and must be condemned, if this is a true but this should not give reasons for blaming the entire community. I Have a QUESTION for Narender Pawar who actually initiated this entire mail trail that where was he when this happened. Why didn’t he come forward and did the job. Why did he wait for others to make a way for him and for others? Shailesh, you must need to get this answer from this gentleman. It’s very easy to put blame on others however people who accept the ownership would never do it. I am sad we guys are still living in the same world where we have been putting blames and allegations on our own community people and appreciating others. Rajiv Naithani Dy. Manager - HR GlobalLogic India The Global Product Development LeaderUSA INDIA UKRAINE CHINAB-34/1, Sector 59, Noida 201301 U.P , IndiaPhone: +91. 120. 406.2000 x<4653> Mobile +91-9810967493Fax: +91.120.258. 5721www.globallogic. comInfoWorld Award Winner for Agile Innovation------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- -Disclaimer: http://www.globallo gic.com/email_ disclaimer. txt"A man who wants to do something will find a way; a man who doesn't will find an excuse." ------------ --------- --------- ---From: younguttaranchal@ yahoogroups. com [mailto:younguttaranchal@ yahoogroups. com] On Behalf Of santosh ranaSent: Tuesday, April 08, 2008 7:14 PMTo: younguttaranchal@ yahoogroups. comSubject: Re: [YU - All India Society] PEOPLE MAKE SHAME OF BEING GARHWALI OR KUMONI :: WHYMy Dear Friend Mr shailesh,This was a real story and not only one their are thousand of examples where people of hills can be easily seen escaping from the action or even hidding their own identity.people from UK need to change their atitutude including me ,because I only want my self or my state to be no one but when it comes to basic thing we lack.Thanks santosh----- Original Message ----From: shailesh tripathy <shailesh_tripathy@ yahoo.com>To: younguttaranchal@ yahoogroups. comSent: Monday, April 7, 2008 5:27:03 PMSubject: Re: [YU - All India Society] PEOPLE MAKE SHAME OF BEING GARHWALI OR KUMONI :: WHYThis is a fake a fabricated story just to belittle the image of pahdi people.----- Original Message ----From: santosh rana To: younguttaranchal@ yahoogroups. comSent: Sunday, April 6, 2008 1:52:27Subject: [YU - All India Society] PEOPLE MAKE SHAME OF BEING GARHWALI OR KUMONI :: WHYDear All ,UTTARAKHANDI BROTHER.THIS IS FROM MY BEST FRIEND NARENDER PAWAR AND HIS EXPERIENCE.I want to Share a small incident which happen when I was going to Village NH -52 because of rain got damaged near srinager (garhwal).We were forced to stay inside the bus for more than 6-7 hrs by the rain after the rain stopped their was a big jam on that road and road was covered with mud from up .which can be easily removed by people around their but they were waiting for PWD workers to Come .More than 50-60 young ,old Garhwali people inside or outside the bus where waitingto remove the sand to clear the path ,but few sikh people along with their wifes started to remove the soil from the road as they want to go to sikh shrine in UK ,Mothers of these sikh inspired the young ones to work and they did after some sikh people ask for help from Young garhwali people for help but still they where no ready to put their hand in mud......... ......... ......They just waited and watched the whole incident.what a Shame ,I think we can talk a lot but we should learn from Punjabi's, Marwadi's ,Kerala people and all how to work.today if you ask any garhwali they will say I am from Delhi or Mumbai.MY MESSAGE :- OUR PAST AND HISTROY IS SUCH A GLORIOUS ONE THAT WE SHOULD CAN ATLEASE SAY I AM FROM UTTARAKHAND ,INDIA...... ..Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger .yahoo.com ------------ --------- --------- ---You rock. 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Re: questioning the credibility and integrity of Uttarkhandi people
Posted by: "Radha Raman Joshi" rrjoshi_99@yahoo.com
Thu Apr 10, 2008 9:33 pm (PDT)
i appreciate ur coments of SSNegiTrue..but of late it is changing...i like to put a this qestion as how many of us educated/ prosperous, living outside ever considered educating or helping or otherwise to our fellow breathern in village or even in family itself. . Have answers/justificati ons ? Better late then never..Take a honest pledge to help a neady child in the village,then see the change...Raman JoshiSantosh Singh Negi <snegi66@yahoo. com> wrote:Hi,First of all I would like to say that this is not afault of Mr. Narender Pawar.We should appreciate him to raise this issue.This is a real issue and must be addressed in apositive manner and attitude and need to find out whatis the root cause.I have the most likely answer that this gentleman wassitting inside the bus and waiting for near byvillagers to come to clear the way for him. (This isnot his fault).Why I am assuming this answer?Here is explanation:Unintentionally this culture was established long backin 70s,80s when first generation after Independencestarted to move towards metrosDilli/Bambai/ Kalkatta/ Madras etc.When these desi baboos used to come back to Gaon forsummer holidays or some other reason, after gettingdown from the Gadi, they will wait for some one fromthe village to carry his Saamaan, even though he has asmall bag and attaché which can be carried easily.This culture slowly impressed other potential migrantsand again I would use unintentionally become samble ofstatus or dignity. And these are the people started to hide theiridentity as Garhwali while they are in metro. Theywont speak Garhwali with their kids. (Punjabi alwaysspeak Punjabi with Punjabi )And this is the reason many Garhwali in these metrotoday can not speak Garhwali.And this think did not stop further damages of socialand economical atmosphere of Uttaranchal.Will be continue in next mail.RegardsSSNegiSingapore--- Rajiv Naithani <rajiv.naithani@ globallogic. com>wrote:> Dear All,> > > > I think people who are questioning the credibility> and integrity of> Uttarkhandi people are doubting on self identity. > Before we raise> finger on entire community, the first question> should be would we be> left out from this blame? > > > > It's not the group of people who think this way> rather it's individual> who is known based on individual identity. There> are lost many other> examples wherein people from our state have been> appreciated a lot not> just for their honesty but also for their valour. > Do we ever come up> and appreciate those?? I hardly see any mail chain> being exchanged on> such topics but seems we are the best critics and> believe in using> sarcasm to upset entire community. > > > > I am somehow feeling really bad the way this entire> mail chain has been> subjected and presented. This entire incident> definitely cannot be> appreciated and must be condemned, if this is a true> but this should not> give reasons for blaming the entire community. > > > I Have a QUESTION for Narender Pawar who actually> initiated this entire> mail trail that where was he when this happened. Why> didn't he come> forward and did the job. Why did he wait for others> to make a way for> him and for others? Shailesh, you must need to get> this answer from this> gentleman. It's very easy to put blame on others> however people who> accept the ownership would never do it. > > > > I am sad we guys are still living in the same world> where we have been> putting blames and allegations on our own community> people and> appreciating others. > > > > Rajiv Naithani Dy. Manager - HR GlobalLogic> India > The Global Product Development Leader> > USA INDIA UKRAINE CHINA> > B-34/1, Sector 59, Noida 201301 U.P , India> Phone: +91. 120. 406.2000 x<4653> Mobile> +91-9810967493> > Fax: +91.120.258. 5721> www.globallogic. com <http://www.globallo gic.com/> > > > > > > InfoWorld Award Winner for Agile Innovation><http://www.globallo gic.com/Media/ pressReleaseDeta il.asp?press/ 65>> > >------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- ->------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- -> > Disclaimer:> http://www.globallo gic.com/email_ disclaimer. txt> <http://www.globallo gic.com/email_ disclaimer. txt> > > > > "A man who wants to do something will find a way; a> man who doesn't will> find an excuse." > > ____________ _________ _________ __> > From: younguttaranchal@ yahoogroups. com> [mailto:younguttaranchal@ yahoogroups. com] On Behalf> Of santosh rana> Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2008 7:14 PM> To: younguttaranchal@ yahoogroups. com> Subject: Re: [YU - All India Society] PEOPLE MAKE> SHAME OF BEING> GARHWALI OR KUMONI :: WHY> > > > My Dear Friend Mr shailesh,> > > > This was a real story and not only one their are> thousand of examples> where people of hills can be easily seen escaping> from the action or> even hidding their own identity.> > > > people from UK need to change their atitutude> including me ,because I> only want my self or my state to be no one but when> it comes to basic> thing we lack.> > > > Thanks > > > > santosh> > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----> From: shailesh tripathy> <shailesh_tripathy@ yahoo.com>> To: younguttaranchal@ yahoogroups. com> Sent: Monday, April 7, 2008 5:27:03 PM> Subject: Re: [YU - All India Society] PEOPLE MAKE> SHAME OF BEING> GARHWALI OR KUMONI :: WHY> > This is a fake a fabricated story just to belittle> the image of pahdi> people.> > ----- Original Message ----> From: santosh rana > To: younguttaranchal@ yahoogroups. com> Sent: Sunday, April 6, 2008 1:52:27> Subject: [YU - All India Society] PEOPLE MAKE SHAME> OF BEING GARHWALI OR> KUMONI :: WHY> > Dear All ,> > > > UTTARAKHANDI BROTHER.> > THIS IS FROM MY BEST FRIEND NARENDER PAWAR AND HIS> EXPERIENCE.> > > > I want to Share a small incident which happen when I> was going to> Village > > NH -52 because of rain got damaged near srinager> (garhwal).> > > > We were forced to stay inside the bus for more than> 6-7 hrs by the rain> after the rain stopped their was a big jam on that> road and road was> covered with mud from up .which can be easily> removed by people around> their but they were waiting for PWD workers to Come> .> > > > More than 50-60 young ,old Garhwali people inside or> outside the bus> where waiting> > to remove the sand to clear the path ,but few sikh> people along with> their wifes started to remove the soil from the road> as they want to go> to sikh shrine in UK ,Mothers of these sikh inspired> the === message truncated ===____________ _________ _________ _________ _________ __Do You Yahoo!?Tired of spam? 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Posted by: "sumant binjola" binjola2000@yahoo.com binjola2000
Fri Apr 11, 2008 3:06 am (PDT)
dear all if u have a passport and you have a tecnical qualification/ certificate you can take interview on monday paharganj hindustan hotel room n0 401 but firest you have to contac me on my mail send resume and passport copy. the contact person is mr bastola Sumant BinjolaCyber media India ltd.Mob. 9818273281----- Forwarded Message ----From: sumant binjola <binjola2000@ yahoo.com>To: PauriGarhwal@ yahoogroups. comSent: Monday, April 7, 2008 6:30:00 PMSubject: for jobdear all very goomornig if any body have passport and want to go abroad caneda and usa please contact me recutor are in delhi please come and take interview comewith original passport and resume and also bring your course certificate the following vacancies is turner. feeter. iron cutting drafts man. plumber, electricien. ets. please contact me yhis no sumant binjola m n is 9818273281 and reutor no is 9718055191 mr bastola he is from nepal intervew only three days you can contact him hindustan hotel paharganj new delhi room no is 401.thanksSumant BinjolaCyber media India ltd.Mob. 9810179273You rock. That's why Blockbuster' s offering you one month of Blockbuster Total Access, No Cost.____________ _________ _________ _________ _________ __Do You Yahoo!?Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail. yahoo.com
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Re: qualish/tata sumo requirement for Pauri Garhwal
Posted by: "mukesh negi" n_mukesh2002@yahoo.co.in n_mukesh2002
Fri Apr 11, 2008 3:06 am (PDT)
Dear Sunil Ji,Please contact 9868645585. for Tata Sume, because he is provide tata sumo on daily basis Delhi to Karnprayag.Mukesh Negi----- Original Message ----From: SUNIL SINGH <ss_gusan@yahoo. com>To: PAURI <paurigarhwal@ yahoogroups. com>Sent: Thursday, 10 April, 2008 10:55:15 AMSubject: [PGG-Regd Trust] qualish/tata sumo requirement for Pauri GarhwalDear All,Do anybody have any contact no. of the transporter who provide their services on daily basis to Pauri Garhwal. If any, please give me the complete details like contact no., charges etc.regards,sunil gusain____________ _________ _________ _________ _________ __Do You Yahoo!?Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail. yahoo.com Meet people who discuss and share your passions. Go to http://in.promos. yahoo.com/ groups/bestofyah oo/
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Uttarakhand Curries--Uttarakhand Cuisine..!!

Uttaranchal Curries:
Sharing a border with Tibet and Nepal, the hilly and picturesque Uttaranchal (Meaning Northern region) has a distinct cuisine, so very different from regular north Indian cuisine. The Mogul cuisine which influenced most of north India has had little impact on the traditional cuisine of Uttaranchal.In its two major regions, Garhwal and Kumaon, we find an array of delightfully different curries made from three basic building blocks -Lentils, Spinach and Yogurt. Unlike other parts of north India, rice remains the staple food in Uttaranchal.
The Curry base: Pulses form the base for most curries. Horse gram, black soyabean and whole unhusked urad dal are the most popular pulses.Roasted and powdered urad dal is mixed with water, spices and cooked into a thick curry called the Chainsoo. Use black soyabean instead of Urad dal and you have the Bhatwani.Mixed dals are boiled in water, mashed, the solids filtered and the thin curry is cooked into a Ras. Add rice flour to thicken the Ras and you have the Thathawani.A curry made from black soyabeans, thickened with rice flour is cooked into churdkani. Replace black soy beans with horsegram, and Churdkani becomes Fannah.Yogurt is the next popular curry base. Yogurt thickened with rice flour is cooked into the Jholi. This is similar to the north Indian Kadi but for the fact that rice flour is used as a thickener and not gram flour. However, the use of dairy products is limited because this hilly land is not conducive to raising cows. Ground mustard and turmeric is mixed in yogurt to make the Kumaoni Raita. It is only in Uttaranchal and West Bengal would you see the use of ground up mustard.Spinach is also used as a curry base. Boiled and mashed spinach gives the Kafuli. Add yogurt to it and it becomes the Kappa. Unlike north Indian curries which use gram flour, Uttaranchal prefers rice flour as a thickener.
FlavoringThe extensive use of mustard oil gives Uttaranchal curries a distinctive flavor. Spices like cumin, coriander, garam masala, chili powder, garlic and ginger are popular across the state. Unlike most north Indian curries, asafetida is extensively used.
Goodiestraditionally, each curry is cooked with a select few goodies. For example, a Jholi is usually cooked with spinach. Chainsoo, Kafuli, Phaanu or Kappa uses no vegetables. But you can experiment by using your favorite goodies in any of these curries. Unlike other north Indian curries, tomatoes are used very sparingly. A specialty is the use of crushed veggies (mostly potatoes or radish) in curries. It is in Uttaranchal you’d see Marijuana leaves and seeds used in chutneys. Local spinach known as Bichhu Ghas is very popular.Play with different combinations of bases, flavorings and goodies to cook up a huge variety of Uttaranchal curries.Pls do leave a comment.

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PAURI GARHWAL GROUP
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Uttaranchal, Uttarakhand -'Early ripening of ""Kaafal"" a fall out of global warming' ..!!

Dear All Uttarakhandis.!!!
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The early ripening of the popular 'Kaafal' wild fruit in Uttarakhand is being seen by experts as a fallout of global warming in the Himalayan region.
The edible wild fruit has hit the markets this year a month before than the usual time and it is being sold at four times higher than its normal rate.
The regional fruit markets received the supply of 'Kaafal' fruit on Sunday and the "surprised" traders bided a higher rate for it, sources said.
Such incidents are example of the impact of climate change and global warming that has begun to affect the Himalayan region in many ways, experts said.
Glacier retreat, early flowering and early leaf production in many trees, and arrival of mosquitoes at altitudes beyond their traditional range are some of the examples of the climate change in the region, they said.
Eminent ecologist and vice-chancellor of HNB Garhwal University, Srinagar, Garhwal said "a species can fruit early in a direct response to warming." "However, it can start fruiting also under a stress, such as drought," he said.
The warming by enhancing the rate of evaporation can cause water stress on trees, thus forcing them to complete reproductive cycle quickly, he said.
This is for your information please.
Best Regards,
K.S.RAWAT
It is perhaps due to the lack of political will that the hills of Uttarakhand still waits for better rail & air connectivity...by Pauri Garhwal Group!

Garhwal, Kumaon, Uttaranchal, Uttarakhand

Roopkund in Uttarakhand.

Roopkund in Uttarakhand is known for its Skeleton Lake. In 1942, about 600 skeletons were discovered in the area by a park ranger. The skeletons were believed to be of people who lived between 12th to 15th century. Whitechapel in London was the place where serial murders were committed in 1888-91 by a killer referred to as ‘Jack The Ripper’. The victims were always women and most of them were prostitutes.‘Raaz 2’ will mainly be shot in these three locations. And the very thought of shooting at these places is giving jitters to our serial kisser.

‘Raaz 2’, a hindi film, will mainly be shot in these three locations. And the very thought of shooting at these places is giving jitters to our serial kisser.

K.S.RAWAT

UTTARAKHAND, UTTARANCHAL

हो हो कन्हय्या ....बंसी बजन्या....उत्तरांचली होली. Wishing you a Colorful Holi with Natural and Safe Colours!

Have a nice and an enjoyable Holi with all near and Dear ones!!!!!

Team Pauri Garhwal Group..!!

Uttaranchal, Uttarakhand..!!

Uttarakhand's First Film to sensitize the public.."Nai Roshni" "नयी रौशनी" - गढ़वाली फ़िल्म - Garhwali Film... by Sushila Rawat..!!

The Pauri Garhwal Group : We can not think other than workig for Uttarakhand & its honest people.!!!
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Nai Roshni "नयी रौशनी" - गढ़वाली फ़िल्म - Garhwali Film... By Shushila Rawat..!! Please contact for CD & VCDs at :
SHEETAL JAYARA IMAGES AND GANGOTRI FILMS.
SHOP NO. 15, APANA BAZAR, D.D.A. MARKET, NEHRU NAGAR,
NEW DELHI-110065.
CONTACT : 9818861477, 9868150348.
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"NAYI ROSHNI"A film in Garhwali dialect has been produced by Sheetal Jayara Images and Gangotri Films. "Nai Roshni" is an effort to sensitize the public to the issue of Girl Child. This has its origin in the mind set of the majority of Indian society which prefer a son to a daughter. The population in the hills of Uttarakhand also have the same mind set. Nai Roshni is the story of a girl, craving for the affection of her father. The father, consider her unlucky as a son did not born after Roshni's birth. Even after the birth of sons he do not change his attitude and showers his affection on his sons and always neglects Roshni.The fils is also the story of a grandmother who fights for the rights of her grand daughter. Third woman in the story is the mother of Roshni, who silently suffers and dies.Roshni the heroine of the film is from Kotdwar. The suiting is done in and around Kotdwara. The premier of this garhwali film was held on 2nd March 2008 at Press Club of India.By Pauri Garhwal Group!!
K.S.RAWAT
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Nai Roshni "नयी रौशनी" - गढ़वाली फ़िल्म - Garhwali Film... Releasing Shortly....Pauri Garhwal Group..!!

Nai Roshni "नयी रौशनी" - गढ़वाली फ़िल्म - Garhwali Film... Releasing Shortly....Pauri Garhwal Group..!!

A film in Garhwali dialect has been produced by Sheetal Jayara Images and Gangotri Films. "Nai Roshni" is an effort to sensitize the public to the issue of Girl Child. This has its origin in the mind set of the majority of Indian society which prefer a son to a daughter. The population in the hills of Uttarakhand also have the same mind set. Nai Roshni is the story of a girl, craving for the affection of her father. The father, consider her unlucky as a son did not born after Roshni's birth. Even after the birth of sons he do not change his attitude and showers his affection on his sons and always neglects Roshni.

The fils is also the story of a grandmother who fights for the rights of her grand daughter. Third woman in the story is the mother of Roshni, who silently suffers and dies.

Roshni the heroine of the film is from Kotdwar. The suiting is done in and around Kotdwara. The premier of this garhwali film was held on 2nd March 2008 at Press Club of India.

By Pauri Garhwal Group!!

New Delhi..

Uttaranchal, Uttarakhand, Garhwal, Garhawli, Kumaon, Kumaoni

Uttarakhandi, Uttaranchali, Garhwali, Kumaoni Bhajans .... Pauri Garhwal Group..!!

Dear Group Members!!

If you want to listen garhwali bhajan including jagar, please click on the following link:

http://www.bhaktisangeet.com/bhajan/garhwali/jagar.html

http://www.bhaktisangeet.com/bhajan/garhwali/index.html

Thanks & Regards,

K.S.RAWAT

PAURI GARHWAL GROUP

UTTARAKHAND, UTTARANCHAL,

PAURI GARHWAL, CHAMOLI GARHWAL, TEHRI GARHWAL, KUMAON, GARHWAL,

GARHWALI, KUMAONI

Uttarakhand to reserve 50 pc seats for women in panchayats..Pauri Garhwal Group..!!

Dehradun (PTI): The BJP government in Uttarakhand plans to bring in a law that provides 50 per cent reservation for women in Panchayats.
A formal announcement to this effect is likely to be made in the current budget session of the Vidhan Sabha, official sources said here on Thursday.
"We are going to reserve 50 per cent seats for women under the Panchayati Raj system," a top official said.
But the official refused to divulge more information over the issue saying a detail statement would be made in the house shortly. "We have almost finalized everything regarding this," he said.
Women are having 33 per cent reservation in the Panchayati Raj system under the 73rd amendment. However, it was not yet known whether the government would bring similar kind of reservation in urban bodies too.
Women have played a big role in the statehood agitation of 1990s that saw the birth of new state of Uttarakhand on Nov 9, 2000. Besides, various social groups have been exerting pressure on the government for 50 per cent reservation for women.
"We feel it is a big victory for women in Uttarakhand," said Avdhash Kaushal, Chairperson of RLEK, a Dehradun-based NGO working for the women empowerment in the country.
Kaushal, whose NGO is also working actively in Jharkhand, also claimed that Chief Minister has agreed to reserve 50 per cent seats for women in Uttarakhand".
Significantly, BJP recently made provision for 33 per cent reservation for women in the party's structure.

Pauri Garhwal Group

New Delhi

Uttarakhand, Uttaranchal

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K.S.RAWAT
MODERATOR
PAURI GARHWAL GROUP,
UTTARANCHAL, UTTARAKHAND,
NEW DELHI, INDIA

Pauri Garhwal Group as it stands today is a reflection of the ambitions, aspirations and hard work of members..!!

Go to PGG Blog for reading following news:
It is perhaps due to the lack of political will that the hills of Uttarakhand still waits for better rail & air connectivity...by Pauri Garhwal Group!

Dear Friends!!

********************APNI BHASHA APNE LOG***********************

We do not know how many of 4000 members of PG Group know that PG Group is a Registered Society / Trust, and with the help of the group members, working with broader AIM, keeping in mind our objectives, to build a platform for development of Uttarakhand and its people.

"UNITY" OF THE UTTARAKHANDIS

If you all remember or must have seen that in the home page of the group itself it is clearly written that "PG GROUP ENCOURAGES YOU TO SHOW THE UNITY" because PG Group is formed with the intention of bringing together people from Uttarakhand and for encouraging all Uttarakhandis to do everything based on their personal and professional capacities through the activities of the PGG platform. This "UNITY" & "TEAM WORK" will lead to improved life and work outcomes for individuals and "UTTARAKHANDI" community. Thanks for making our life so worth living!!

“PRIME OBJECTIVE” OF PGG GROUP

While joining this group/ community, the prime objective in everyone’s mind is to give something in return to our Community. We are not members for self interest rather we wish to contribute in whatever form for the betterment of our community, people, custom and so on. This group provides platform to each individual to interact with our own community members. We share our thoughts and ideas with each other as to how we can make a big difference to our people and society.

We all are from working class and are contributing our time, money, efforts just for the sake of doing something for our own people.

“MAJOR ACHIEVEMENTS” OF PGG GROUP IN THE LAST 3 YEAR

One of the simple but powerful things we all personally do regularly to feel strong and on top is to read success stories. Nothing makes us feel stronger and more successful than doing that.

ü 2 days “Awareness-Cum-Sponsorship” camp in Puryadaang Inter College, Patty- Maniyarsuin (Pauri Garhwal). A Team of PG Group visits these remote locations and delivers Career Guidance Lectures, Career and Competitive Exams related books to the students of Uttarakhand. So far
ü 2 days “Awareness-Cum-sponsorship” cam in Gairsain Inter College, Gairsain (Chamoli). Career Guidance is provided by the TEAM PGG to all the students.
ü Under our “Sponsorship Programme” so far we have sponsored more than 30 students from different schools from the remote locations of Uttarakhand and providing scholarship to needy but talented kids/students.
ü Under our “Sponsorship Programme” we have so far contributed approx. 1.5 Lacs to the schools and students.
ü Last year only collected Approx. 5 Lacs Rupees for the treatment of Master Deepak who was suffering from bone cancer. Contributed more than 15000 Rupees to Mr. Mani Ram Kala from Mumbai, who is suffering from Kidney failure.
ü So far more than 72+ members and their relatives have got job opportunities thru this platform.
ü Only online group, who has conducted 3 mega – family – get – together of all Uttarakhandis at Garhwal Bhawan. Uttarakhandi Khana was served in the first two events.
ü So far 10+ members have got business opportunities thru PG Group!
ü So far 5 members have found their life partner thru PG Group….It is not a joke!!
ü And there are so many other achievements……..which are small but enough for giving smile to the faces of our own people.

CONTRIBUTE FOR THE `SOCIAL CAUSE’

Despite of being a registered trust we don’t have any source of funding. Each individual is contributing himself or herself for all these actions/initiatives. We have a transparent fund control system and details of the fund management are shared with the members during meets. Imagine how we had collected Rs.5 Lacs for Master Deepak.

Those who think that they can also be part of this mission can contribute. PG Group bank details are given below:

Bank
AXIS Bank Ltd (formerly UTI Bank)
Account Name
PAURI GARHWAL GROUP
Account No.
224010100027636
Branch
Rajender Nagar, New Delhi
Type
Saving
MICR
110211026
IFCS Code
UTIB 0000007
Swift Code
UTIBINBB002

Please Note: Your generous act would surely help many needy students & poor families of Uttarakhand!!!


MEETING AT GARHWAL BHAWAN IN MID MAR'2008

The PG Group has been involved in various social projects that are primarily focused on the students and poor people of Uttarakhand. PGG Team would continue its efforts towards helping the students of Uttarakhand by developing more of such projects and executing them in the schools of Uttarakhand. PGG Team with the help of Group members will continue sponsoring poor and needy students in the remote areas of the Uttarakhand.

A separate mail on this meet will be sent in the group shortly. Please feel free to ask, if you have any question in your mind.

Warm Regards,

K.S.RAWAT
Moderator – PG Group!!
New Delhi / 09818007079
Uttaranchal, Uttarakhand, Garhwal, Kumaon
Dear Members,

You are well aware that for quite sometime we all are busy in preparation for our Gairsain Project, which was a successful one with your best wishes.

I hereby giving the names of the donors who have donated for illfated boy, Deepak, for his treatment. Though some of the members have requested us not to disclose their identity, their names have been mentioned as "undisclosed". Even some of the donations received by us without quoting their names, they have also been kept in "undisclosed" category.

Name
Amount
Akhilesh Rawat
100
Amar Singh
150
Amit Kothiyal
1000
Anil Gaur
400
Anil Nayal
1000
Anil Rana
500
Anil Rawat (Thru Khatriji)
500
Anoop Rawat
500
Arjun Rawat
500
Arun Kavtiyal
1000
Arvind Dhasmana
100
B B Lekhawar
500
Bharat Gupta
500
Bittoo
50
Chanderkanta Pandey
1500
Deepak Kala
1000
Deepak Rana
300
Dr R K Joshi
7000
Harish Mamgai
100
Iti Kumar
10000
J P Gosain
5000
J P Singh (Patiala)
5000
Jagdish Sajwan
500
M S Rawat
1000
Mahipal Singh Rawat
1000
Manish Budakoti
3000
Manmohan Sharma
500
Manoj Joshi
1000
Manoj Tiwari
500
Manvendra S Negi
500
NCS Negi
2000
Nishith Pathak
1000
Nutan Pokhriyal
200
P K Mitra (BBY)
500
Pandey Ji (Dubai)
2500
Parveen Singh
1000
Pooja
500
Pradeep Rawat
100
Praful Negi
1000
Pramod S Rawat
500
Pramod Sharma (Dubai)
1500
Pramod Singh
100
Rajeev Naithani
1000
Raju Khatri
1100
Raju Khatri & Frnds
10000
Rajuvendra Rawat
1000
Rakesh Dhyani
1500
Sandeep Balodhi
1500
Santosh Jayal & Frnds
20085
Santosh S Negi (SGPR)
1000
Shashi Kr Chamoli
200
Shilpi Mittal
300
Subhash Kandpal
1000
Subodh Gupta
4000
Suman Sardwal
1000
Sunil Kr Manchal
500
Sunita Kathait & Friends
8300
Surender Singh
200
Suresh Gupta
100
Tarun Shrivastava
501
Umesh Ghildiyal
500
Undisclosed
1000
Undisclosed
100
Undisclosed
1000
Undisclosed
5000
Undisclosed
1000
Undisclosed
1000
Undisclosed
1500
Undisclosed
1000
Undisclosed
1000
Undisclosed
100
Undisclosed
500
Undisclosed
200
Undisclosed
100
Undisclosed
1000
Vijyender
2000
Vinay Rawat
500
Vinod Devrani
100
Vinod S Chard
500

If anyone requires any sort of clarification, please do not hesitate to contact the undersigned only, without disturbing the whole group.

Thx & Rgds,
Subhash Pokhriyal
Team-PGG
New Delhi
9811709882
Dear Friends,

We are thankful for the following PG members have come forward and funded for the student sponsorship programme being organized at Gairsain Inter College, Gairsain, Uttarakhand, on 21st July 2007:

1
Mr Sanjay Kukshal

5000
2
Ms Richa Deep Pant

1500
3
Mrs Chanderkanta Pandey
2000
4
Mr Rajeev Naithani

1000
5
Mr Deepak Dhyani

2000
6
Mr Atul Nauriyal

1200
7
Ms Savita Sati

1500
8
Ms Nutan Pokhriyal

3000
9
Mrs Sunita Kathait

1000
10
Mr Subhash Kandpal

500
11
Mr Deepak Rana

1500
12
Mr Gautam Rawat

500
13
Dr Ravi Joshi

5000
14
Mr Divakar Uniyal

1500
15
Mr Jagdish Sajwan

400

Further, the following members too shown their interest in Group's sponsorship programme at Gairsain and are in the process of sending their contribution very soon:

1. Mr Ashok Suyal
2. Mr Ashwani Thapliyal
3. Mr Umesh Thapliyal
4. Mrs Poonam Rawat
5. Mr Santosh Negi
6. Mr Prem Singh
7. Mr Sudhir Naithani
8. Mr Nishith Pathak
9. Mr Surendra S Bisht
10. Mr Rakesh Kandwal
11. Mr GCS Rawat
12. Mr Deepak Nautiyal
13. Mr Pankaj

If any of the member would also like to be a part of this nobel cause, please be in touch with the undersigned.

Please feel free to contact me for any clarification.

Thx & Rgds,
Subhash Pokhriyal (pokhriyal_subhash@yahoo.co.in)
Team-PGG
New Delhi
9811709882

CBSE India CBSE Board Sample Questions Papers CBSE Results CBSE ...2008

Dear Uttarakhandis..!!
If your children are appearing for this year (2008) board exams, you can directly download the sample papers from the following link: This will definitely help your child for preparingfor the exams:
http://www.cbse.nic.in/curric~1/sample2008.htm

Sample Papers for Board Exam. 2008 and Marking Schemes
Class X
SAMPLE QUESTION PAPER
Science (Theory)
Social Science
Mathematics
Hindi Course A
Hindi Course B
Sanskrit
English Language & Literature

MARKING SCHEME 2007
Marking Schemes
Class XII
SAMPLE QUESTION PAPER
Hindi Elective
Sanskrit Elective
Hindi Core
Sanskrit Core - Pages 1-22 - Pages 23-47
Psychology
English Core
Functional English
Geography (Theory)
Creative Writing and Translation Studies (Class XI)
Mathematics - Paper-I Paper-II Paper-III
Physics - Paper-I Paper-II Paper-III
Biology - Paper-I Paper-II Paper-III
Chemistry - Paper-I Paper-II Paper-III
Business Studies - Paper-I Paper-II
Economics - Paper-I Paper-II
History - Paper-I Paper-II
Political Science
Accountancy
Sociology

MARKING SCHEME 2007 - COMMERCE SUBJECTS
Accountancy
Business Studies
Economics
English Core
Entrepreneurship
Functional English
Mathematics
MARKING SCHEME 2007 - SCIENCE SUBJECTS
English Core
Functional English
Mathematics
Biology
Bio-Technology
Chemistry
Computer Science
Engineering Drawing
Informatics Practices
Physics

MARKING SCHEME 2007 - HUMANITY SUBJECTS

Thanks & Regards,

K.S.RAWAT
PAURI GARHWAL GROUP
NEW DELHI
UTTARAKHAND UTTARANCHAL PAURI GARHWAL CHAMOLI GARHWAL TEHRI GARHWAL KUMAON KUMAONI GARHWALI
http://paurigarhwal.com/

It is perhaps due to the lack of political will that the hills of Uttarakhand still waits for better rail & air connectivity...by Pauri Garhwal Group!

Dear All.!!!
http://www.paurigarhwal.com/ / http://pauri-garhwal-group.blogspot.com/ / http://groups.yahoo.com/group/paurigarhwal/
With barely a fortnight left for the announcement of the Railway budget, people here are not only waiting for the arrival of trains in the hill regions like other Himalayan states but are also looking forward to better rail connectivity with other states.

The visits of railway minister Mr Lalu Prasad to Uttarakhand many a time in the past and his promise of better rail links have raised the hope of the people of this hill state.
A few months ago, the minister admitted the need to have the Rishikesh-Karnaprayag and Tanakpur-Bageshwar rail links as part of the national plan. It is believed that there could be some announcement in this regard in the rail budget. Past surveys have recommended the rail link on the Rishikesh-Karnaprayag route. The first survey was done in 1919 on the initiatives of the then deputy commissioner of Garhwal JM Clay. The next survey was done in 1996, by the then minister of state for Railways Mr Satpal Maharaj. But the rail link on the hills here remained a dream.
Experts find no impediments to the construction of rail routes here. Dr PC Nawani, director of the Geological Survey of India, who is a consultant to the Rail line Plan in Jammu and Kashmir, says the hills of Uttarakhand are fit for the rail links. “The situation here is more favourable compared to Jammu and Kashmir as the rocks here are harder,” Dr Nawani said.
“It is perhaps due to the lack of political will that the hills of Uttarakhand are still without trains,” “If there can be trains in Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh and Darjeeling, why not in Uttarakhand?”
The people also long for the Doon-Saharanpur rail line, a double rail line from Doon-Luxar and its electrification, a fast train to Mumbai and direct trains to other parts of the country, particularly Bangalore and Goa.
With the growing number of tourists, it is essential to have better rail connectivity. According to him, the Doon-Saharanpur line would help frequent travellers as it would shorten by two hours the distance from Dehradun to Delhi. It would be about 30-35 km.
Warm Regards,
K.S.RAWAT
Moderator - PG Group..!!
New Delhi / 09818007079
Uttaranchal, Uttarakhand, Garhwali, Kumaon, Kumaoni

Uttarakhand / Uttaranchal : Medicinal Plants

Dear members of Pauri Garhwal Group,
Please find below two articles on the medicinal plants. I hope it will be of your interest. http://www.ethnobiomed.com/content/pdf/1746-4269-2-32.pdf
http://www.ethnobiomed.com/content/pdf/1746-4269-1-11.pdf
With regards,
chandra prakash kala
Pauri Garhwal Group!
New Delhi / India
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/paurigarhwal
htpp://pauri-garhwal-group.blogspot.com/
http://paurigarhwal.com/
Uttaranchal Uttarakhand Pauri Garhwal Garhwali Kumaoni

उत्तराखंड/उत्तरांचल Uttarakhand/Uttaranchal : Best Kumaoni Songs..!!

http://forum.esoft.in/other-languages-mp3-video/1684-best-super-hit-kumauni-songs.html

उत्तराखंड की आवाज़ !!

के । एस । रावत

पौडी गढ़वाल ग्रुप

नई डेल्ही

भारत

Uttarakhand/Uttaranchal : One more beautiful song by Narender Singh Negi and Preeti Ranakoti - Must Watch..!!

http://www.videogully.com/Uttarakhand__4qpm1cYeXNo.html

उत्तराखंड की आवाज़ !!

के । एस । रावत
पौडी गढ़वाल ग्रुप
नई डेल्ही भारत

लिटिल चैम्पियन गढ़वाल - उत्तराखंड या उत्तरांचल - Vashundhra Raturi..!!

लिटिल चैम्पियन गढ़वाल - उत्तराखंड या उत्तरांचल

लिटिल चैम्पियन गढ़वाल - उत्तराखंड या उत्तरांचल ....

वसुंधरा रतूरी जी नेटवर्क पर होने वाले सा रे गा माँ की लिटिल चैम्पियन मी सबसे बड़ी दावेदार है.... Keep it up Vashundhara.... For more information please visit:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/paurigarhwal
http://pauri-garhwal-group.blogspot.com/
http://www.paurigarhwal.com/

धन्यबाद !!

करण बीर सिंह रावत
पौडी गढ़वाल ग्रुप, उत्तरांचल, उत्तराखंड
Uttaranchal, Uttarakhand
ZEE NETWORK, GARHWALI, KUMAONI, PAURI GARHWAL, TEHRI GARHWAL, CHAMOLI GARHWAL, KUMAON, INDIA, NEW DELHI, CRICKET, LITTLE CHAMPION, SA RE GA MA

Nanda Devi and Valley of Flowers National Park, Uttaranchal, Uttarakhand, India..!!

Source: http//www.eoearth.org/article/Nanda_Devi_and_Valley_of_Flowers_National_Park,_India

Content Partner: United Nations Environment Programme-World Conservation Monitoring Centre (other articles)
Article Topics: Geography, Ecology and Ecotourism
This article has been reviewed and approved by the following Topic Editor: Mark McGinley (other articles)
Last Updated: January 10, 2008

Geographical Location
Nanda Devi National Park (30° 41' to 30° 48'N and 79° 33' to 79° 46'E) is a World Heritage Site that lies in eastern Uttaranchal State, near the Tibetan border in the Garhwal (western) Himalaya, 300 kilometers (km) northeast of Delhi. The main entrance to the Park is via Lata and Tolma villages, some 25 km and 31 km respectively east of Joshimath township. It leads through the almost inaccessible gorge of Rishi Ganga to a basin surrounded by high mountain ridges and peaks except to the west, lying between 30°16' to 30° 32'N and 79° 44' to 80° 02'E. The Valley of Flowers is in the Paspawati valley 23 km north-northwest of Nanda Devi Park. It lies between 30° 41' to 30° 48'N and 79° 33' to 79° 46'E.
Date and History of Establishment
1862: The Paspawati valley was discovered by Colonel Edmund Smyth.
1931: The valley visited by the mountaineer F. Smythe who wrote a book publicising the “Valley of Flowers”
1936: The upper Nanda Devi basin was reached and described by mountaineers E.Shipton and N.Odell who climbed Nanda Devi
1939: The basin was established as the Nanda Devi Game Sanctuary by Government Order 1493/XIV- 28 of 7/01.
1962: Border disputes closed the area to traffic, altering the local economy.
1974-82: The Sanctuary was opened to mountaineering but the ensuing degradation led to its closure to all users.
1982: The Park was established as Sanjay Gandhi National Park by Notification 3912/ XIV 3-35-80, but was later renamed Nanda Devi National Park. Restrictions were imposed on the rights of nearby villagers.
The Valley of Flowers was declared a National Park by Government Order 4278/XIV-3-66-80 under the provisions of the Wildlife Protection Act of 1972, for the conservation of its flora.
1986: The Nanda Devi National Biosphere Reserve was established (223,674 ha) with a 514,857 hectares (ha) buffer zone surrounding the two Parks.
2000: The Biosphere Reserve extended by the government to 586,069 ha which included both National Park core zones (62,462 ha + 8,750 ha, totaling 71,212 ha); the Valley was declared the second core zone of the expanded National Biosphere Reserve.
2004: The two core zones and buffer zone designated a United Nations Environmental, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) Biosphere Reserve.
Areas
Nanda Devi: 62,462 ha. Valley of Flowers: 8,750 ha. The Parks share a 514,857 ha buffer zone within the Biosphere Reserve which is not within the World Heritage site.
Land Tenure
Uttaranchal State in Chamoli District. Administered by the Uttaranchal State Forestry Department of the National Ministry of Environment and Forests.
Altitude
Nanda Devi: 1,900 meters (m) (lower Rishi Gorge), 2,100 m (the basin) to 7,817 m (Nanda Devi West). Valley of Flowers: 3,350 m (valley floor) to 6,708 m (Gauri Parbat).
Physical Features
Nanda Devi

Nanda Devi Mountain. (Source: Stanford Alpine Club)
The Park is in the catchment basin of the Rishi Ganga, an eastern tributary of the Dhauli Ganga which flows into a major tributary of the Ganges, the Alaknanda River, at Joshimath. The area is a vast glacial basin, divided by a series of parallel north-south oriented ridges. These rise to the encircling mountain rim formed by sixteen peaks above 6,000 m. The best known of these are Dunagiri (7,056 m) and Kalanka (6,931 m) to the north, Nanda Devi East (7,434 m) on the eastern rim, Nanda Khat (6,811 m) in the southeast and Trisul (7,127 m) in the southwest. Nanda Devi West lies on a short ridge projecting from Nanda Devi East into the basin. It is India's second highest mountain. The upper Rishi Valley, known as the Inner Sanctuary, is fed by the Changbang, North Rishi and North Nanda Devi glaciers from the north and by the South Nanda Devi and South Rishi glaciers from the south. An impressive gorge cuts through the Devistan-Rishikot ridge below the confluence of the North and South Rishi rivers. The Trisuli and Ramani glaciers flow into the lower Rishi Valley or Outer Sanctuary, below which the Rishi Ganga enters the narrow, deep, steep-sided and virtually inaccessible lower gorge.
The basin displays an array of periglacial and glacial forms which cover a wide range of phases of growth. The combinations of normal and perched glaciers on different rock types add to the interest of the basin. Most of the Park falls within the central crystallines, a zone of young granites and metamorphic rocks. Along the northern edge the Tibetan-Tethys is exposed, consisting of sandstones, micaceous quartzite, limestones and shales. The Tethys sediments form Nanda Devi itself and with many of the surrounding peaks, displays spectacular folding and evidence of thrust movements, while other mountains like Changbang are granite. The crystalline rocks of the Vaikrita Group and lower part of the Tethys sediments have been tentatively subdivided into four, the Lata, Ramani, Kharapatal and Martoli formations. Further geological details are given by Lamba (1987).
The Valley of Flowers

The Valley of Flowers National Park. (Source: Case Western Reserve University)
The Valley is 20 km northwest of Nanda Devi National Park across the wide valley of the Bhiundhar Ganga. It is one of two hanging valleys lying at the head of the Bhiundhar valley, the other being the shorter Hemkund valley which runs parallel some 10 km south. It runs east-west approximately 15 km by an average of 6 km wide, in the basin of the Paspawati river, a small tributary flowing from the Tipra glacier which descends from Gauri Parbat in the east. Its central valley, lying at about 3,500 m, is a gently inclined basin of some 1,000 ha of alpine meadows, the Kundalinisen plateau, the forested slopes of which rise sharply through moraines to rocky ridges, perpetually snow-covered peaks and glaciers which together cover 73% of the valley. Alpine meadows cover 21% and forests 6% of the rest. The high surrounding mountains are not impassable and open to the south at Ghangrea (3,072 m), 7 km downstream. There, the Paspawati meets the Lakshman Ganga, becoming the Bhiundhar Ganga which flows 15 km to Govindghat at its confluence with the Alaknanda, a tributary of the Ganges. The main surrounding peaks are Nar Parbat (5,245 m) to the northwest, Nilgiri Parbat (6,479 m) to the north, Rataban (6,126 m) across the Bhuindhar Pass, with Gauri Parbat (6,708 m) to the east and Saptasring (5,038 m) to the south. The Lakshman Ganga flows from Lokpal lake (4,150 m) in the Hemkund valley, a much visited place of pilgrimage. The well exposed bedrock comprises crystallines of the Vaikrita group with sedimentary, mica schist and shale rocks. The soils are acidic and retain moisture well.
Climate
Being an inner Himalayan valley, the Nanda Devi Basin has a distinctive microclimate. Conditions are generally dry with low annual precipitation, but there is heavy rainfall during the monsoon from late June to early September. Prevailing mist and low cloud during the monsoon keeps the soil moist, hence the vegetation is lusher than is usual in the drier inner Himalayan valleys. From mid April to June temperatures are moderate to cool (19 degrees Celsius (°C) maximum). The Valley of Flowers also has the microclimate of an enclosed inner Himalayan valley, and is shielded from the full impact of the southwest summer monsoon by the Greater Himalaya range to its south. There is often dense fog and rain especially during the late summer monsoon. Both Basin and Valley are usually snow-bound for six to seven months between late October and late March, the snow accumulating deeper and at lower altitudes on the shadowed southern than on the northern side of the valleys.
Vegetation
Nanda Devi
Forests are restricted largely to the Rishi Gorge and are dominated by West Himalayan fir Abies pindrow and Rhododendron campanulatum with Himalayan birch Betula utilis up to about 3,350 m. Forming a broad belt between these and the alpine meadows is birch forest, with an understory of rhododendron. Conditions are drier within the inner basin becoming almost xeric up the main glaciers. Beyond Ramani, the vegetation changes from forest to dry alpine communities, with scrub juniper Juniperus pseudosabina becoming the dominant cover. With altitude, junipers give way to grasses, prone mosses and lichens, and on riverine soils to annual herbs and dwarf willow Salix spp. Woody vegetation extends along the sides of the main glaciers before changing gradually to squat alpines and lichens.
A floristic analysis of the area based on the 1993 Nanda Devi Scientific and Ecological Expedition is given by Balodi (1993). A total of 312 species, distributed over 199 genera and 81 families, has been recorded and preserved in the herbarium of the Northern Circle Botanical Survey of India. At least 17 of these are considered rare. Not in this list is Saussurea sudhanshui, newly described from the area. Within the larger area of the Biosphere Reserve some 793 species from 400 genera and 120 families were listed by the 1993 Nanda Devi Scientific and Ecological Expedition. Eight nationally threatened species recorded include Nardostachys grandiflora, Picroehiza kurrooa (VU), Cypripedium elegans, C. himalaicum, Dioscorea deltoidea (VU) and Allium stracheyi (VU). Local people use a total of 97 species, 17 for medicine, 55 as food plants, 15 as fodder, 16 for fuel, 5 for tools, 8 for house building, 2 as fibers, 6 for miscellaneous uses, and 11 for religious purposes.
The Valley of Flowers

The flower Saussurea obvallata is collected by local villagers to be used as a religious offering to Nanda Devi and other deities. (Source: Harvard University Herbaria)
The valley has an unusually rich flora of over 600 species with many rarities. It lies in a transitional area between the Great Himalaya and Zanskar Mountains, and also between the eastern and western Himalayan phytographic regions. The valley has three main vegetation zones: sub-alpine between 3,200 m and 3,500 m which is the limit for trees, lower alpine between 3,500 m and 3,700 m, and higher alpine above 3,700 m. The habitats include valley bottom, river bed, small forests, meadows, eroded, scrubby and stable slopes, moraine, plateau, bogs, stone desert and caves. The lower surrounding hills in the buffer zone are thickly forested. The Forest Research Institute in 1992 recorded 600 species of angiosperms and 30 pteridophytes in the valley and surroundings, discovering 58 new records for the valley of which 4 were new for Himalayan Uttar Pradesh. Of these plants, 5 out of 6 species globally threatened are not found in Nanda Devi National Park or elsewhere in Uttaranchal: Aconitum falconeri, A. balfouri, Himalayan maple Acer caesium, the blue Himalayan poppy Mecanopsis aculeate and Saussurea atkinsoni. 31 species are classified as nationally rare. The dominant family is the Asteraceae with 62 species. Forty-five medicinal plants are used by local villagers and several species, such as Saussurea obvallata (brahmakamal) are collected as religious offerings to Nanda Devi and other deities. The site is designated a Centre of Plant Diversity.Characteristic of the sub-alpine zone are high altitude forests which help to retain moisture and snow and support a large number of floral and faunal communities. It is dominated by the uncommon Himalayan maple Acer caesium (VU), west Himalayan fir Abies pindrow, Himalayan white birch Betula utilis, and Rhododendron campanulatum with Himalayan yew Taxus wallichiana, Syringa emodi and Sorbus lanata Some of the common herbs are Arisaema jacquemontii, Boschniakia himalaica, Corydalis cashmeriana, Polemonium caerulium, Polygonum polystachyum (a rampant tall weed), Impatiens sulcata, Geranium wallichianum, Helinia elliptica, Galium aparine, Morina longifolia, Inula grandiflora, Nomochoris oxypetala, Anemone rivularis, Pedicularis pectinata, P. bicornuta, Primula denticulate and Trillidium govanianum. In trampled areas where past livestock congregated, Himalayan knotweed Polygonum polystachium is a rampant weed.
The valley’s lower alpine zone has greater moisture and deeper soil. A large number of herbaceous communities grow in great profusion and it supports the greatest diversity of alpine plants. Characteristic of the zone are dwarf shrubs, cushion herbs, grasses and sedges. Common and single-seed junipers Juniperus communis and J. squamata, Rhododendron anthopogon, Salix spp., Lonicera myrtillus, Cotoneaster microphyllus, and Rubus ellipticus are the major shrub species in this zone. The herbaceous flora gives a spectacular multicolored array of flowers during the growing season. Their growth cycle is very short, and they give way to other communities later in the season. The dominant herbs of this zone are Potentilla atrosanguinea, Geranium wallichianum, Fritillaria roylei, Impatiens sulcata, Polygonum polystachyum, Angelica archangelica, Selinum vaginatum. The common grasses of the zone are Danthonia cachemyriana, Calamogrostis emodensis, Agrostis pilosula and Trisetum spicatum; the main sedge species are Kobresia roylei and Carex nubigena.
The higher alpine zone is an area of pioneer species dispersed among moraines, boulders, and rocky slopes, dominated by scattered and stunted herbs with delicate flowers, mosses and lichens. The stable slopes on southern aspects typically have meadows of Kobresia sedge. On northern aspects and in sheltered areas are extensive shrubby patches of Rhododendron lepidotum, Cassiope fastigiata and Juniperus communis. The zone’s dominant species are Kobresia royleana, Trachydium roylei and Danthonia cachemyriana. There are also several colorful herbs like Saussurea simpsoniana, Potentilla argyrophylla, Geum elatum, Senecio spp., Bistorta affinis, Bergenia stracheyi and the blue Himalayan poppy.
Fauna
Nanda Devi
An account of the 14 known species of mammals is given by Tak & Lamba (1985) and Lamba (1987), 6 being nationally endangered. The basin is renowned for the abundance of its ungulate populations, notably bharal or blue sheep Pseudois nayaur, estimated to number 820 in 1977, 440 in 1981-1984 but 990 were sighted in 1993. Preliminary surveys suggest that Himalayan musk deer Moschus chrysogaster, mainland serow Capricornus sumatrensis (VU) and Himalayan tahr Hemitragus jemlahicu (VU) are also common, but are probably not as plentiful as they used to be due to hunting. However, numbers appear to have increased due to the closure of the Park to human activities since 1983. The goral Nemorhaedus goral does not seem to occur within the basin, although the species does occur near the Park. Snow leopard Uncia uncia (EN) is reported to have been "extraordinarily common" by Dang in 1961. This may reflect the relative ease with which the species is observed here and in the vicinity as it is very unlikely that the Park now supports a large snow leopard population because of its comparatively small size and the deep snow in winter. Other large carnivores are Himalayan black bear Selenarctos thibetanus (VU) and brown bear Ursus arctos, the existence of which has yet to be confirmed, and common leopard P. pardus. The only primate present is common langur Presbytis entellus although rhesus macaque Macaca mullata has been sighted outside the Park boundaries. Some 83 animal species were reported from the area of the national Biosphere Reserve by the Indian National MAB Committee.
Shankaran recorded a total of 114 species of birds in 30 families during the 1993 Nanda Devi Scientific and Ecological Expedition. Some 67 of these species were not recorded during earlier surveys. Abundant species recorded during May to June include crested black tit Parus melanolophus, yellow-bellied fantail flycatcher Rhipidura hypoxantha, orange-flanked bush robin Erithacus cyanurus, bluefronted redstart Phoenicurus frontalis, Indian tree pipit Anthus hodgsoni, vinaceous breasted pipit A. roseatus, common rosefinch Carpodacus erythrinus, and nutcracker Nucifraga caryocatactes. Species richness was found to be highest in the temperate forests, with a significant decline in richness as elevation increased. Other expeditions for which bird lists are available include Reed (1979) and Tak & Kumar (1987). Lamba (1987) lists 80 species for the area but the distribution of some of these is restricted to lower altitudes in adjacent areas. Some 546 species are reported from the Biosphere Reserve area by the Indian National MAB Committee.
There is a lack of systematic surveys on invertebrate fauna. Baindur recorded 28 species of butterfly from six families during May-June 1993, including common yellow swallowtail Papilo machaon, common blue apollo Parnassius hardwickei, dark clouded yellow Colias electo, Queen of Spain Issoria iathonia, and Indian tortoiseshell Aglais cashmirensis.
The Valley of Flowers
[[Image:redfox.jpgleft300pxthumbThe red fox Vulpes vulpes is one of only 9 species that has been directly sighted in the Valley of Flowers. (Source: Marietta College)
The density of wild animals in the Valley is not high but all the animals found are nationally rare or endangered. 13 species of mammals are recorded for the Park and its vicinity although only 9 species have been sighted directly: common langur Presbytes entellus, flying squirrel Petaurista petaurista, Himalayan black bear Selenarctos thibetanus (VU), red fox Vulpes vulpes, Himalayan weasel Mustela sibirica, and Himalayan yellow marten Martes flavigula, goral Naemorhedus goral, Himalayan musk deer Moschus chrysogaste, Indian mouse deer Moschiola meminna, Himalayan thar Hemitragus jemlahicus (VU) and serow Capricornis sumatrensis (VU). The tahr is common, the serow, goral, musk deer and blue sheep are rare. The common leopard Panthera pardus is reported from lower parts of the valley closer to the villages. Local people have also reported evidence of Himalayan brown bear Ursus arctos and bharal or blue sheep Pseudois nayaur. A recent faunal survey in October 2004 has established the presence of snow leopard Uncia uncia (EN) in the national park.
The area is within the West Himalayan Endemic Bird Area but there have been no surveys specific to the Valley. 114 species were seen in 1993 in Nanda Devi Park. Species frequently seen in the valley include koklass pheasant Pucrasia macrolopha, the nationally listed monal pheasant Lophophorus impejanus, found in rhododendron thickets, scaly-bellied woodpecker Picus squamatus, greater yellow naped woodpecker P. flavinucha, great barbet Megalaima virens, blue throated barbet M. asiatica, snow pigeon Columba leuconota, spotted dove Streptopelia chinensis, lammergeier Gypaetus barbatus, Himalayan griffon Gyps himalayensis, yellow billed chough Pyrrhocorax graculus and red billed chough P. pyrrhocorax. The area is relatively poor in reptiles: most often seen are the high altitude lizard Agama tuberculata, Himalayan ground skink Leiolopisma himalayana and Himalayan pit viper Gloydius himalayanus. Along with the flowers are wild bees and many species of butterfly which need to be more researched. A few of the more evident species are lime butterfly Papilio demoleus demoleus, common yellow swallowtail Papilio machaon, common mormon Papilio polytes romulus, spangle Papilio protenor protenor and common blue apollo Parnassius hardwickei.
Cultural Heritage
Nanda Devi
Nanda Devi, named after Devi (‘goddess’), consort of Shiva, is a manifestation of Parvati and has been revered since ancient times (Reinhard,1987). Hindus have deified the entire basin and every twelfth year devotees make the Nanda Devi Raj Jat pilgrimage to the foot of Trisul to worship their patroness the 'Bliss-giving Goddess' Nanda Devi (Kaur, 1982). The local people are the Bhotiya, an ethnic Tibetan group who lived by trading with Tibet via the Niti valley until the 1962 war with China, by transhumant herding up and down the valley, and on resources from the forests.
The Valley of Flowers
Seven kilometers south of the Park entrance, at Ghangrea, a track leads off to the Hemkund Sahib shrine sacred to Sikhs, and the Hindu temple to Lakshman, brother of Ram, beside Lake Lokpal. These have long been places of pilgrimage to both Sikhs and Hindus, and 400,000-500,000 pilgrims visit them every year. The valley itself was formerly used by migratory villagers for grazing two to three herds of 700-1,000 sheep and goats each and for 40-50 local cows and buffaloes. In 1862 the valley was chanced on by Colonel Edmund Smyth who praised the floral beauty of the region in various periodicals. This attracted Dr. T.G. Longstaff and A.L. Mumm to the Bhuyundar Valley in 1907. It was also found by the mountaineers F.Smythe and R.Holdsworth in 1931 while coming down from an expedition to Mt. Kamet. In 1937 Smythe revisited the valley and next year published The Valley of Flowers, bringing it to world attention. There is the tombstone of a botanist from Kew, Margrett Legge, who died here in 1939.
Local Human Population
Nanda Devi
The Park is uninhabited but the buffer zone is home to 19 communities, five in permanent and 14 transhumant settlements. The most prominent villages are Reni and Lata (114 families), on the north-western side, and in the Niti valley there are eight other villages, totalling 2,250 residents in 1997. 17 of these are inhabited by the Indo-Mongoloid Bhotiya tribe who comprise marchhas (traders) and tolchhyas (farmers) who practice rain-fed subsistence farming, make products from wool, draw resources from the forest and, before the area was closed off, grazed 4,000 goats and sheep in the alpine pastures of Dharansi and Dibrugheta. In1974, proposed Forestry Department clear-cutting of the local trees in Reni prompted the famous Chipko (hug the trees) movement among the villagers led by Gauri Devi, which spread across the region, halting government efforts to harvest the trees. The marchhas, no longer traders with Tibet, turned to a living as porters and guides. When the National Park was created in 1982 it was closed to all users, denying the villagers this trade as well as use of their native resources, which caused hardship and much resentment.
When the Biosphere Reserve was created in 1988, restrictions were extended to the buffer zone without prior consultation with the communities affected. Owing to their apprehensions about the Reserve there was a concerted protest from ten villages in the Niti valley in 1998 led by the villagers of Lata in the Jhapto Cheeno (swoop and grab) movement, against the Reserve management and the Forestry Department’s restrictions on mountaineering and grazing. In 2001 the Lata village council, set up the Nanda Devi Development Authority to convince the government to reconsider the ban on mountaineering so that the local community rather than outside interests might once again benefit from ecotourism. A trail has been created and the communities now receive a share in the fees from visitors while they support fire prevention and anti poaching activities, and provide guides and tourist accommodation. They also offer home stays, which are becoming increasingly popular amongst visitors.
The Valley of Flowers
The valley itself is uninhabited. The local people are mostly Bhotiya, non-tribal Rajput farmers and transhumant herdsmen, who winter their flocks at the area’s main permanent village of Pulna 12 km south of the Park and 1,750 m lower in elevation. Five and nine kilometers south of the Park entrance are the seasonal villages of Ghangrea (at 3,060bm) and Bhiundhar (at 2,240 m), occupied in summer to serve the pilgrims and tourists (when some 400 stalls line the pilgrim trail). The people of Bhiundhar who numbered about 330 in 1999, may no longer graze the valley and some families are still poor but others earn well from tourism and the pilgrimage and are very supportive of the Park. With support from the Forest Department, the local communities have formed Eco-Development Committees (EDCs). The EDCs at Bhyundhar and Govindghat provide support to the Park management and look after the waste disposal and management of visitor facilities along the trail outside the National Park. Over 70 tonnes of garbage was removed by these EDCs in the last two years alone.
Visitors and Visitor Facilities
Nanda Devi
The trek to Nanda Devi base camp is considered to be one of the toughest in the world. When the Park was open between 1974 and 1983 it became the second most popular Himalayan destination after Everest, attracting large numbers of mountaineers and trekkers from all over the world; in 1982 there were some 4,000 visitors, mostly expedition members and porters. The Park was then closed to both tourists and villagers because of the disturbance caused: 1,000 kilograms of tourist litter were later removed by the Indian team who made the 13th ascent of the mountain in 1993. The Park was only reopened in 2003 for regulated tourism following the new ecotourism policy of the state of Uttaranchal. The trail up to Dibrugheta in the National Park was opened to a maximum of 500 tourists per year in a program for ecotourism regulated by the Forest Department with active support from local communities. In the year 2003 over 2,200 tourists visited the Park and nearby eco-zone. In 2004 (to the end of November), 184 tourists visited the Park and 1,638 tourists visited the eco-zone. Camping sites have been developed in several places and the villagers offer home stays, which are becoming increasingly popular amongst visitors. Further facilities for pilgrimage, cycling, camping, mountaineering courses and cultural tourism are planned. Joshimath, where there are hotels, is about 170 km north of the railhead at Rishikesh, and 220 km from Jolly Grant airport at Dehra Dun.
The Valley of Flowers
The valley is very accessible and some of the many pilgrims to the nearby shrines travel on to see it. In 1999, between 30 and 50 people visited the Park daily. In 2003-2004, nearly 4,000 were recorded: 3,600 from India and 300 from abroad. Visits occur between May and early October, on foot once within the Park and guided by youths from the village to see that the flowers are not trampled. There is a Forest Department post and interpretation centre at Ghangrea near the entrance with brochures, books and posters and where entry fees are charged. For the last two years this has been managed by members of the EDC who present slide and film shows for visitors.
There are sign boards in the park and guided nature trails including a 19-kilometer trek. Regulations for trekking are being prepared. No camping is allowed in the valley. But mountaineering is allowed subject to permit and regulation, on two peaks, Rataban and Ghauri Parbat. There are also trails out of the park to the southwest and through bear-infested forest and over glacial ice to the northeast. There are some 25 visitor resthouses, lodges and hotels at Ghangrea near the Park entrance and down the Bhiundhar at Govindghat on the Alaknanda, including a very large Sikh gurudwara. There are Forest Department guesthouses at both Ghangrea and Govindghat, and camping near Bhiundhar village. The site is about 200 km north of the railhead at Rishikesh, and 250 km from Dehra Dun airport.
Scientific Research and Facilities
Nanda Devi
The first recorded attempt to enter the sacred basin was by W.Graham in 1883, but he was unable to get beyond the gorge of the lower Rishi Ganga. Subsequent attempts by Dr T. Longstaff in 1907 and H. Ruttledge in 1926, 1927 and 1932 also failed. Finally, in 1934, Eric Shipton and H. W. Tilman pioneered a route to the ‘Inner Sanctuary’ by forcing a passage up the upper gorge of the Rishi Ganga. Later, in 1936, H. Tilman and N. Odell made the first ascent of Nanda Devi, reputed the outstanding climb of the pre-War era. Their accounts of this natural sanctuary first drew attention to this spectacular mountain wilderness and led to its protection. A geological survey was conducted by Maruo in 1979. Among the first published observations on the wildlife of Nanda Devi are those of Dang (1961), Lavkumar (1977,1979) and for birds, Reed (1979). Surveys of the flora and mammalian fauna were carried out by the Botanical Survey of India and Zoological Survey of India respectively. The Nanda Devi Scientific and Ecological Expedition conducted floral and faunal surveys and habitat assessments in 1993. Following the program of decadal monitoring of the region, a combined team of the Forest Department, Wildlife Institute of India, G.B. Pant Institute of Himalayan Ecology & Development and Garhwal University conducted surveys in the region again in 2003. This research will contribute to the management of the Park.
The Valley of Flowers
The flora was surveyed and inventoried in 1987 by the Botanical Survey of India, in 1992 by the Forest Research Institute and in 1997 by the Wildlife Institute of India which found five species new to science. A research nursery and seed / rhizome / tuber bank for propagating rare plants and valuable medicinal herbs has been created at Musadhar near the entrance of the site. Rare and valuable medicinal plants are the subject of special programs. These include Aconitum heterophyllum, A. falconeri, Arnebia benthamii, Dactylorhiza hatagirea, Gymnadenia orchides, Megacarpaea polyandra, Picrorhiza kurrooa, Podophyllum haxandrum and Taxus wallichiana. Research plots have been set up to determine the best way to control the spread of the tall smothering Himalayan knotweed Polygonum polystachium without damaging other plants or the surface of the soil. A first annual survey was conducted in 2004 and will be repeated annually.
Conservation value
Nanda Devi
The area is one of the most spectacular wildernesses in the Himalayas. The basin is dominated by the pyramidal peak of Nanda Devi, India's second highest mountain, and drained by the Rishi Ganga which has cut one of the finest gorges in the world. It supports a diverse flora, largely because of the wide altitudinal range, and a number of rare or threatened animals. Unlike many other Himalayan valleys, it is free from human settlement and owing to its inaccessibility has remained largely unspoilt, particularly the forests of the lower Rishi Valley. The Chipko campaign made the site a symbol of participatory conservation and ecotourism in India.
The Valley of Flowers
The Valley is one of the two core zones of the Nanda Devi Biosphere Reserve which protects one of the most spectacular mountain wildernesses of the western Himalayas, among which the Paspawati valley is celebrated for its flowers. More than 500 species grow there in an area of less than 2,500 hectares. It is also the habitat of the endangered snow leopard, the serow and rare Himalayan musk deer.
Conservation Management
Nanda Devi:
The upper Rishi Ganga valleys (the Outer and Inner Sanctuaries) were long preserved by the difficulty of penetrating the lower Rishi gorge which remained unexplored until 1934. Hunting, the collection of medicinal plants and other forms of exploitation followed until the 1962 war with China closed the border. From 1945 to 1974 the region remained closed to foreign visitors. Traditionally, the alpine pastures around Dharansi and Dibrugheta were grazed by livestock from Lata, Tolma and Peng villages, and latterly from villages as far up the Niti valley as Malari. A spate of mountaineering and trekking followed the re-opening of the Reserve in 1974 but caused such disturbance to the environment, that, on scientific advice, trekking, expeditions and grazing were banned by authority of the Chief Secretary of Uttar Pradesh. The 1983 ban covered grazing, hunting, harvesting herbs, wood-collection, mountaineering and trekking anywhere in the core area of the then projected Biosphere Reserve, including the whole National Park, Thus communities traditionally dependent on sheep rearing and local resources had to seek alternate pastures, change their vocations or emigrate. Over 25% left the valley.
A preliminary management plan was prepared but by 1988 this had not been sanctioned by the Chief Wildlife Warden. Included in the plan were recommendations concerning the ban on tourism and ways in which to provide employment for local people. Nandi Devi was earmarked as one of several protected areas for future inclusion under the Government of India's Project Snow Leopard. The Pindari and Sundadhunga valleys at the southern edge of the Nanda Devi massif were recommended for designation as a sanctuary to protect their reportedly large and viable ungulate and pheasant populations. In 1988, without local consultation, a long-projected national Biosphere Reserve was created to protect the region’s biodiversity, with Nanda Devi National Park as the core area. Following the provisions of the Wildlife (Protection) Act 1972, restrictions were imposed on grazing and other human activities throughout the Biosphere Reserve with adjacent buffer areas remaining open for legitimate community needs. The condition of the flora and fauna greatly improved but the villagers’ crops and cattle began to suffer increased losses to wild animals for which compensation was hard to obtain. As a result more than 75% of the residents developed a very negative attitude towards the Reserve management.
The 1998 Jhapto Cheeno protest against the restrictions on grazing and mountaineering and against official indifference enlisted world-wide interest. Faced with state support for potential development of the basin by national and multinational interests, the villagers created the Nanda Devi Development Authority in 2001. Following this initiative, the Protected Area management began to promote local enterpreneurship and actively involve local communities which had previously been ignored, in conservation activities. These now receive a share in the trail management fees and help to prevent fires and poaching. By 1993 the Nanda Devi Scientific and Ecological Expedition concluded that wildlife numbers were increasing and the ecosystem of the Park showed signs of recovery since its closure. This recovery and continued improvement in the biodiversity of the Park was re-confirmed in the decadal monitoring of the Park in 2003 carried out by the scientists of the Wildlife Institute of India, the Pant Institute of Himalayan Ecology & Development and Garhwal University. The demand to lift the restrictions on mountaineering is still raised occasionally, both by mountaineers for whom this region remains the final frontier and by villagers who see a potential for well paid employment as porters and guides.
With support from the MAB programme initiatives of the Indian government and the latest ecotourism policy of the newly created state of Uttaranchal, regulated tourism has been allowed. Community-based tourism plans for the villages around the Park (Lata, Tolma, Peng and Reni) have been prepared. Under these plans, capacity-building, the training and registration of local youths as guides, the creation of home stays for visitors, the establishment of local tour operator groups for eco- and cultural tours, the development of handicrafts and medical plant cultivation and the direct involvement of Women's Welfare Groups have all been introduced. As a result of these initiatives, over 2,200 tourists visited the Park and nearby eco-zone in 2003. Eco-Development Committees have been established in all the villages and PRA- (Participatory Rule Appraisal) based micro-plans have been prepared by them, supported with funds from various sources. This success was recognised in 2004 by an Ecotourism award, and by the presence of two local women at the Global Women’s Conference on Environment at Nairobi.
The Valley of Flowers
The Park is a natural laboratory for the conservation and study of the western Himalayan flora. When it became a National Park in 1982 livestock grazing ceased and restrictions were imposed on nearby villagers. However, the Park’s staff have begun to train them by building up their capacity as wardens and plantsmen, trekking and mountaineering guides. As wardens they are trained in implementing regulations and handling offenders, in the use of instruments and fire arms, in high altitude survival strategies and resolving conflicts with wild animals and intruding hunters; as plantsmen they are trained in plant identification, field biodiversity monitoring, identifying and restoring rare plants and rehabilitating their habitats. All are provided with better facilities and equipment. The nursery at the entrance of the site is researching ways to mitigate the pressure on rare and valuable plants and in cooperation with the Eco-Development Committee of Bhiundhar villagers have been encouraged to grow them on. The EDCs also clear the waste and manage visitor facilities along the trail outside the National Park. In 2002-2003 in cooperation with the villagers’ Eco-Development Committee and Forest Committee of Bhiundhar the Forestry Department oversaw the clearing of 50 tons of litter and removed 120 temporary stalls from the pilgrim trail from Govindhar to Hekmund. The Committee is also spreading awareness of the need to suppress the rampant Himalayan knotweed.
Management is done within the 2003-2013 plan for Nanda Devi Biosphere Reserve which is implemented annually in consultation with local, district and state bodies but does not manage the Parks directly. A new ten-year management plan for the Valley of Flowers Park is due for completion in 2005 based on the following objectives:
The protection, in-situ and ex-situ conservation and monitoring of the flora and fauna;
Restoration of and research into the flora and fauna;
Management of the habitats of the park for endangered flora and fauna
Development, upkeep and litter-clearing of trek routes and basic facilities for park visitors with active support and participation of the local communities.
Education of local people about the biodiversity and protection of the park;
Generating opportunities in the local community for sustainable livelihoods and building their capacity for responsible ecotourism.
Key indicators for monitoring the state of conservation in the park are:
The status of rare and endangered flora such as the populations of Saussurea obvallata, Meconopsis aculeata, Cypripedium cordigerum, Dactlyorhiza hatagirea, Aconitum spp. in permanent plots;
The assessment of cover at past camps and trails by invaders like Himalayan knotweed Polygonum polystachyum, Rumex nepalensis, Impatiens sulcata and Osmunda claytoniana;
Signs of threats to the wild flora and fauna from illegal herb collection and poaching;
Regeneration of birch and fir in landslide areas below 3,300 m.
Management Constraints
Nanda Devi
Hundreds of tons of litter, felling of trees and even cultural vandalism created by expeditions, along with the introduction of sheep and goats to the inner basin, reached serious proportions before the closure of the Park. However, by 1993, after ten years of closure, the wildlife had recovered and increased in numbers. Regular patrolling inside the Park during winters is very challenging. The two access routes into the inner basin are difficult to maintain because of the terrain and heavy snow fall, and manning the newly created checkpost at Lata Kharak throughout the year is also a challenge. Although their participation in ecotourism has been secured, their training for the work needs continued development. The number of staff has gone up but is still inadequate. A few of the wildlife staff have been trained at the Nehru Institute of Mountaineering, Uttarkashi, but they lack the necessary support for mountaineering equipment to patrol the higher reaches of the Park year-round.

The Valley of Flowers
The main management issues are, within the Valley, control of invasive knotweed and, on the way to the Park, tourist and pilgrim litter. This piles up by the tonne from the thousands of tourists that visit the shrines: 300,000 plastic bottles a year and 500-600 kilograms of human and mule dung per day. The local people have now combined to clear this. A past threat to the forests surrounding the pilgrim route was the destruction of trees for firewood but this is now forbidden. Within the Park some 1,000 ha of meadow are infested with the tall fast growing Himalayan knotweed which controls erosion but crowds out the subalpine flora. Its increase where livestock used to congregate is related to the prohibition of grazing. While livestock overgraze and over-enrich the soil, they may enhance floral diversity by limiting the growth of taller more vigorous plants. Its eradication and regular monitoring is expected to be a major expense. There is no pollution and little danger from avalanches except on the approach road from Govindghat. There is, nevertheless, a constant threat from local poachers, especially to the snow leopard, and to ungulates when they come down to the valleys in winter; also from local indifference to wildlife conservation. This is aggravated by lack of adequate funding for the training needed for high altitude monitoring.
Comparison with Similar Sites
The Valley is similar to Nanda Devi National Park, but has many more and more northerly plant species and is much more accessible. Entering the other Park requires time and mountaineering skills; it remains a wilderness rightly protected as a Strict Nature Reserve. At present there is only one World Heritage site in the mountains between Assam and northern Pakistan - the far larger mountainous Sagarmatha National Park in Nepal, but there are such large differences in scale and terrain as to make close comparison unrealistic. There may be comparable valley sites in the nearer Himalayas which remain largely unknown due to the difficulty of access and the strategic sensitivity of the region. There are 17 protected areas in the west Himalaya, covering 11.6% of the biotic province. There are certainly some alpine valleys such as Ralam, Pindari, Sunderdhunga, Khatling and Harkidoon, which may originally have been comparable in number of plant species but all have been degraded by overgrazing and medicinal plant collection. Three adjacent valleys of Khiron, Khakbusandi and Bedini-Ali have much less diversity. Nearby protected areas in Uttaranchal which include valleys are Gangotri and Govind National Parks, Kendarnath, Ascot and Govind Pashu Vihar Wildlife Sanctuaries and, in Himachal Pradesh, Sangla Wildlife Sanctuary. But none has a comparable floristic richness, and in so compact an area. The valley’s 600 species of plants comprise 25% of the vascular plants found in the Chamoli district though it is only 1.3% of its area. The valley is also celebrated in literature, both Indian and English, for its beauty, its flowers and the associated religious sites.
Staff
Nanda Devi
In 2004 a staff of 89 was deployed: one Director/Conservator of Forests, one Deputy Conservator of Forests, one Sub divisional Forest Officer, two Range Officers, two Deputy Range Officers, five Asst. Wildlife Wardens, six foresters, 22 Wildlife Guards, 17 Forest Guards and 21 part-time watchers. Out of these, 22 field staff have been deployed at the Park from the Biosphere Reserve establishment.
The Valley of Flowers
One Divisional Forest Officer, one Range Officer, 2 Foresters, 4 wildlife guards, 2 buffer forest guards.
Budget
Nanda Devi
Approximately Rs20 lakhs (Rs20,000,000/US$44,500) in 2003-2004. US$75,000 from the budget for Nanda Devi Biosphere Reserve is given to the Park.
The Valley of Flowers
This comes from the national Ministry of Environment and Forests. An annual average expenditure of Rs17.5 lakhs (Rs1,750,000 / US$39,000) was recommended over a ten year period from 2000-2009. US$45,000 from the budget for Nanda Devi Biosphere Reserve is allocated to the Park.
IUCN Management Category
Nanda Devi National Park: Ia (Strict Nature Reserve)Valley Of Flowers National Park: II (National Park)
International Designations
2004: Both Parks designated as core zones of Nanda Devi Biosphere Reserve under the UNESCO Man & Biosphere Programme (586,069 ha).
Natural World Heritage Serial Site
1988: Nanda Devi National Park inscribed on the World Heritage List under Natural Criteria iii and iv. 2005: Extended to include the Valley of Flowers National Park.

K.S.RAWAT

PAURI GARHWAL GROUP

NEW DELHI, INDIA

UTTARANCHAL, UTTARAKHAND, CHAMOLI GARHWAL, TEHRI GARHWAL, KUMAON, KUMAONI, GARHWALI

HEALTH COMPILATION...Year 2008...Uttarakhand Ke Naam..!!

HEALTH COMPILATION

1) Miracle Cure For Anything That Ails You Is As Close
Miracle Cure For Anything That Ails You Is As Close
As Your Supermarket Shelves - By Susan Jimison



Illness
Food
Effect
Headaches
Fish
Eat plenty of fish - fish oil helps prevent headaches. So does ginger, which reduces inflammation and pain.
Hay Fever
Yogurt
Eat lots of yogurt before pollen season
Strokes
Tea
Prevent buildup of fatty deposits on artery walls with regular doses of tea.
Insomnia
Honey
Use honey as a tranquilizer and sedative.
Asthma
Onions
Eating onions helps ease constriction of bronchial tubes.
Arthritis
Fish
Salmon, tuna, mackerel and sardines actually prevent arthritis.
Upset Stomach
Bananas, Ginger
Bananas will settle an upset stomach. Ginger will cure morning sickness and nausea.
Bladder Infections
Cranberry Juice
High-acid cranberry juice controls harmful bacteria
Bone Problems
Pineapple
Bone fractures and the manganese in pineapple can prevent osteoporosis.
PMS
Cornflakes
Women can ward off the effects of PMS with Cornflakes, which help reduce depression, anxiety and fatigue.
Memory Problems
Oysters
Oysters help improve your mental functioning by supplying much-needed zinc.
Colds
Garlic
Clear up that stuffy head with garlic.
Cough
Red Pepper
A substance similar to that found in the cough syrups is found in hot red pepper.
Breast Cancer
Wheat, Bran, Cabbage
Wheat, bran and cabbage help maintain estrogen at healthy levels.
Lung Cancer
Orange & Green Veggies
A good antidote is beta-carotene, a form of Vitamin A found in dark green and orange vegetables.
Ulcers
Cabbage
Cabbage contains chemicals that help heal both gastric and duodenal ulcers.
Diarrhea
Apples
Grate an apple with its skin, let it turn brown and eat it to cure this condition.
Clogged Arteries
Avocados
Monounsaturated fat in avocados lowers cholesterol.
High Blood Pressure
Olive Oil, Celery
Olive oil has been shown to lower blood pressure. Celery contains a chemical that lowers pressure, too.
Blood Sugar Imbalance
Broccoli, Peanuts
The chromium in broccoli and peanuts helps regulate insulin and blood sugar.
2) Health Tips – Super Fruits
Kiwi: Tiny but mighty
This is a good source of potassium, magnesium, Vitamin E & fibre. It’s Vitamin C content is twice that of an orange.

Apple: An apple a day keeps the doctor away?
Although an apple has a low Vitamin C content, it has antioxidants & flavonoids which enhances the activity of Vitamin C thereby helping to lower the risks of colon cancer, heart attach & stroke.

Strawberry: Protective Fruit
Strawberries have the highest total antioxidant power among major fruits & protect the body from cancer causing, blood vessels clogging free radicals.

Orange: Sweetest medicine
Taking 2 –4 oranges a day may help keep colds away, lower cholesterol, prevent & dissolve kidney stones as well as lessen the risk of colon cancer.

Watermelon: Coolest Thirst Quencher
Composed of 92% water, it is also packed with a giant dose of glutathione which helps boost our immune system. They are also a key source of lycopene – the cancer fighting oxidant. Other nutrients found in watermelon are Vitamin C & Potassium.

Guava & Papaya: Top awards for Vitamin C
They are the clear winners for their high Vitamin C content. Guava is also rich in fibre, which helps prevent constipation. Papaya is rich in carotene, this is good for your eyes.

Tips of how to stay young……..
Research has found that people who generally live longer do so partly because of good habits. Here, Dr Vernon Coleman and others provide some of the following good habits for longevity.

1) Laugh & fun, don’t be gloomy
2) Let bygones be bygones. Dwelling on the past inflicts unnecessary stress.
3) Early to bed, early to rise, is healthy & wise
4) Stay lean, being just 30% overweight is bad.
5) Keep learning, reading & socializing – an alert & active mind keeps brain cells healthy.
6) Keep working, doing something you like. Don’t retire, it slows down your body.
7) Be the boss of your own life. Letting others push you around produces stress.
8) Too many pills ruin your body, take just what you need.
9) Constantly alternating between weight gain & loss is bad
10) Exercise, quit smoking and eat less fatty foods
11) Do not worry about health & death, just get on with your life and enjoy it.





3) Vegetables

BROCCOLI
How it combats cancer: Research has revealed that a chemical component called indole-3-carbinol can combat breast cancer by converting a cancer-promoting estrogen into a more protective riety. The phytochemical sulforaphane raises the levels of certain cancer-fighting enzymes that defend the body from cigarette smoke, fumes, pesticides & other known carcinogens.

Diet tips: Broccoli leaves actually contain more beta-carotene (i.e. pre-Vitamin A) than the florets - use leaves in purees, soups, stir-fries. To preserve broccoli’s valuable nutrients, steam or microwave, being careful not to overcook. Avoid garnishing broccoli with fatty cheeses and creams instead, squeeze on some lemon juice or sprinkle with toasted breadcrumbs.

PAPAYA
How it combats cancer: Its plentiful store of vitamin C works as an antioxidant and may also reduce absorption of cancer-causing nitrosamines from the soil or processed foods. Papaya contains folacin (also known as folic acid), which has been shown to minimize cervical ysplasia and certain cancers.

Diet tips: Choose papayas that are at least half-yellow in the store - fully green ones were probably picked too soon and won’t ripen properly. You can serve papaya in fruit salad, add it to a garlic-and-spinach pasta mixture, or just eat it on its own, letting the juice dribble down your arm.

GARLIC
How it combats cancer: Garlic’s immune-enhancing allium compounds block carcinogens from entering cells and slow tumor development. Diallyl sulfide, a component of garlic oil, has also been shown to render carcinogens in the liver inactive. Studies have linked garlic - as well as onions, leeks, and chives - to lower risk of stomach and colon cancer.

Diet tips: Add raw garlic to salads, use it fresh in marinades and sauces; rub freshly cut garlic around the insides of salad bowls and over chicken and fish fillets. Avoid dried or powdered garlic, which is less concentrated - and less effective

KALE
How it combats cancer: Research has shown that indoles, nitrogen compounds found in kale and other leafy greens, may help stop the conversion of certain lesions to cancerous cells in estrogen-sensitive tissues. In addition, isothiocyanates, phytochemicals found in kale, are thought to suppress tumor growth and block cancer-causing substances from reaching their targets.

Diet tips: A cruciferous vegetable, kale requires quick cooking - blanching or steaming - to preserve its nutrients. When you’re done, save the nutrient-rich cooking liquid for soups or sauces. You can also use whole large leaves to wrap fillings or to layer in lasagna.

SWEET POTATO
How it combats cancer: This nutrient-dense food contains many anticancer properties. It’s loaded with beta-carotene, which may protect DNA in the cell nucleus from cancer-causing chemicals outside the nuclear membrane.

Diet tips: Go for freshness when picking potatoes - canned arieties contain less beta-carotene and vitamins C and B. Naturally sweet and creamy, mashed sweet potatoes can be enhanced with a little apple juice. Or whip the cooked tubers with orange zest or orange juice and season with cinnamon, nutmeg, and ginger.

GRAPEFRUIT
How it combats cancer: Grapefruits, like oranges and other citrus fruits, contain monoterpenes, believed to help prevent cancer by sweeping carcinogens out of the body. Some studies show that grapefruit can inhibit the proliferation of breast-cancer cells in vitro. It also contains vitamin C, beta-carotene, and folic acid.

Diet tips: Grapefruit can be sweetened with brown sugar or a drizzle of maple syrup or honey; vanilla extract, fresh mint, and almonds also accent the fruit’s flavor. Grapefruit juice will give you the antioxidants and phytochemicals that fight cancer, but it’s missing the fiber that fresh, whole grapefruit offers.

AVOCADO
How it combats cancer: Avocados are rich in glutathione, a powerful antioxidant that attacks free radicals in the body by blocking intestinal absorption of certain fats. Ounce for ounce, avocados also supply 60 percent more potassium than bananas and are a strong source of beta-carotene.

Diet tips: Store avocados at room temperature until they soften. If you don’t eat the fruit immediately after cutting, sprinkle on some lemon or lime juice to keep it from darkening. Add chunks or slices to salads and sandwiches or spread mashed avocado on bread.

SEAWEED
How they combat cancer: Seaweed and other sea vegetables contain beta-carotene, protein, vitamin B12, fiber, and chlorophyll, as well as chlorophylones - important fatty acids that may help in the fight against breast cancer. Also, many sea vegetables have high concentrations of the minerals potassium, calcium, magnesium, iron, and iodine.

Diet tips: Sea vegetables come fresh, dried, or powdered. Both the Japanese & the Irish regularly use them as flavorings for broths & soups, stir-fried over rice, or as a wrap for fish and other seafood. Varieties such as dulce, wakame, kombu, and hijiki even appear in pancakes, salads, puddings, and sandwiches.

TOFU
How it combats cancer: Soy contains several types of phytoestrogens -weak, nonsteroidal estrogens that could help prevent both breast and prostate cancer by blocking and suppressing cancerous changes. Genistein, one type of phytoestrogen, also lowers breast-cancer risk by inhibiting the growth of epithelial cells & new blood vessels that tumors require to flourish.

Diet tips: Tofu is made by coagulating the protein in soybeans - much the way cheese is produced. While bland on its own, tofu absorbs other flavors when cooked, making it perfect for stir-fries, dips, spreads, shakes, even cheesecake. It’s also a good high-protein substitute for meat, whole milk & mayonnaise.






4) CAUSES OF CANCER

The number ONE killer in Singapore is cancer (followed by Heart Disease & Stroke). Not all cancers are the same. 1/3 is curable. 1/3 is preventable. 2 factors of cancer that cannot be controlled are AGE & FAMILY HISTORY.

Causes of cancer: -
1. Smoking is very often the main cause of cancer. It kills us silently and drains money from us quietly. There're 4,000 harmful chemicals (though in diluted form) in one stick of cigarette. Taking one puff is 600 times worst than inhaling the exhaust fumes from vehicles.

2. Some food that cause cancer are:
2.1 Barbecued Food
2.2 Deep Fried Food
2.3 Overheating Meat
2.4 Food that is high in fat causes our bile to secrete acid that contains a chemical, which is a promoter of cancer cells.
2.5 Food that contains preservatives, too much salt or nitrates (e.g. Canned food, Salted egg & veggies, sausages, etc.)
2.6 Overnight Rice (where Aflatoxin is accumulated)
2.7 Food that is low in fibre: Our body needs 25 gm of both soluble & insoluble fibre daily. We must drink at least 1.5 litres of plain water a day.
2.8 Contaminated Food (e.g. moulded bread causes our body to secrete toxins that may eventually lead to liver cancer in the long run. Never eat bread that is kept in room temperature for more than 2 days especially in a humid weather like Singapore's.

3. Types of fat and which is the best?
3.1 Highly Recommended for Health:-
i. Olive Oil - The best of all oils. It does not absorb in our body.
ii. Fish Oil - Omega 3 (contained in NI's Circulytes) haspoly-unsaturated fat. It's good for our brain cells.
iii. Peanut Oil - It contains Vitamin E. A small dosage is recommended only.
3.2 Not Recommended for Health
i Vegetable Fat - Palm oil is worst than coconut oil. It is high in cholesterol and highly unsaturated.
ii Coconut Oil - It has saturated fat.

4. Specific Food & Beverages
4.1 Egg when eaten too much can cause High Colon Cancer. Risk Ovary Cancer, Prostate Cancer.
4.2 Cabbage is highly recommended for health reason.
4.3 Tomato is best eaten raw with a bit of olive oil for better absorption. Other alternative is to take tomato sauce.
4.4 Coffee is good because it contains 2 anti-oxidants. Inhaling the coffee aroma for half each day is equivalent to eating two oranges a day. However, the residue of over-burned coffee is extremely bad for health. It can cause cancer.
4.5 Tea, as long as it is in its original tealeaves and not processed into BOH or Lipton packets, it is good for health. Tea contains 30 anti-oxidants. Recommended dosage is 4 cups a day.

Exercise and be fit
Have a balanced lifestyle. Exercise regularly.

F : Frequency: 3 to 5 times a week.
I : Intensity: Exercise till we sweat and breath deeply.
T : Types of exercises: Find one that suits our age, lifestyle, etc.

Have regular check-up
Once we reach the age of 45 & above, it is recommended that we go for regular comprehensive health examination. Early detection may save lives.

5) SALT THE CURE OF PAIN

I believe that most of your moms always tell you to drink a glass of salt water/rinse your mouth with salt water if you have a sore throat because salt can reduce inflammation.

This method has actually been proven (medically) to be really effective and it really can help to reduce inflammation.

They have also tested on other medical values of salt and found out that:

If you have pain in your joints/spine/body, you can simply try out this method which can help to relieve the pain (especially for old people who have rheumatism). Simply fry the salt let it settle down for a while before applying on affected areas. And if you have a problem of Hair Loss, you can simply prepare a pail of salt water and rinse your scalp/hair with it (it takes about 2 weeks to a month). It will not help in growing of new hair but can prevent. After tedious/strenuous exercise, soaking your feet with salt water can help to prevent cramps and pain., and also prevent from skin irritation. Hope it will be of help to you.

6) HONEY & CINNAMON

It is found that mixture of Honey and Cinnamon cures most of the diseases. Honey is produced in most of the countries of the world. Ayurvedic as well as Yunani medicine have been using honey as a vital medicine for centuries. Scientists of today also accept honey as a Ram Ban (very effective) medicine for all kinds of diseases. Honey can be used without any side effects for any kind of diseases. Today's science says that even though honey is sweet, if taken in the right dosage as a medicine, it does not harm diabetic patients also. A famous magazine named Weekly World News published in Canada dated 17 January, 95 has given a list of diseases that can be cured by Honey and Cinnamon as researched by western scientists.

The list is show below:

No.
Disease
Curing way
1.
ARTHRITIS:
Take one part honey to two parts of luke warm water and add a small teaspoon of cinnamon powder, make a paste and massage it on the itching part of the body slowly. It is noticed that the pain recedes within a minute or two. Or arthritis patients may daily, morning and night take one cup of hot water with two spoons of honey and one small teaspoon of cinnamon powder. If drunk regularly even chronic arthritis can be cured. In a recent research done at the Copenhagen University, it was found that when the doctors treated their patients with a mixture of one tablespoon Honey and half teaspoon cinnamon powder before breakfast. They found that within a week out of the 200 people so treated practically 73 patients were totally relieved of pain and within a month. Mostly all the patients who could not walk or move around because of arthritis started walking without pain.
2.
HAIR LOSS:
Those suffering from hair loss or baldness, may apply a paste of hot olive oil, one tablespoon of honey, one teaspoon of cinnamon powder before bath and keep it for approx. 15 min. and then wash the hair. It was found very effective if kept for 5 mins. also.
3.
BLADDER INFECTIONS:
Take two tablespoons of cinnamon powder and one teaspoon of honey in a glass of luke warm water and drink it. It destroys the germs of the bladder.
4.
TOOTHACHE:

Make a paste of one teaspoon of cinnamon powder and five teaspoons of honey and apply on the aching tooth. This may be done 3 times a day daily till such time that the tooth has stopped aching.
4.
CHOLESTEROL:
Two tablespoons of honey and three teaspoons of Cinnamon Powder mixed in 16 ounces of tea water, if given to a cholesterol patient, it reduces the level of cholesterol in the blood by 10% within 2 hours. As mentioned for arthritic patients, if taken 3 times a day any chronic cholesterol is cured. As per the information received in the said journal, pure honey taken with food daily relieves complains of cholesterol.
5.
COLDS:
Those suffering from common or severe colds should take one tablespoon luke warm honey with 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon powder daily for 3 days. This process will cure most chronic cough, cold and clear the sinuses.
6.
INFERTILITY:
Yunani and Ayurvedic have been using honey for years in medicine to strengthen the semen of men. If impotent men regularly take two tablespoon of honey before sleeping, their problem will be solved. In China, Japan and Far-East countries, women who do not conceive and to strengthen the uterus have been taking cinnamon powder for centuries. Women who cannot conceive may take a pinch of cinnamon powder in half teaspoon of honey and apply it on the gums frequently throughout the day, so that it slowly mixes with the saliva and enters the body. A couple in Maryland, America had no children for 14 years and had left hope of having a child of their own. When told about this process husband and wife started taking honey and cinnamon as stated above, the wife conceived after a few months and had twins at full term.
7.
UPSET STOMACH:
Honey taken with cinnamon powder cures stomachache and also clears stomach ulcers from the root.
8.
GAS:
According to the studies done in India & Japan, it is revealed that if honey is taken with cinnamon powder the stomach is relieved of gas.
9.
HEART DISEASES:
Make a paste of honey and cinnamon powder, apply on bread or chappati instead of jelly and jam and eat it regularly for breakfast. It reduces the cholesterol in the arteries and saves the patient from heart attack. Also those who have already had an attack, if they do this process daily, are kept miles away from the next attack. Regular use of the above process relieves loss of breath and strengthens the heartbeat. In America and Canada, various nursing homes have treated patients successfully and have found that due to the increasing age the arteries and veins, which lose their flexibility and get clogged, are revitalized.
10.
IMMUNE SYSTEM:
Daily use of honey and cinnamon powder strengthens the immune system and protects the body from bacteria and viral attacks. Scientists have found that honey has various vitamins and iron in large amounts. Constant use of honey strengthens the white blood corpuscles to fight bacteria and viral diseases.
11.
INDIGESTION:
Cinnamon powder sprinkled on two tablespoons of honey taken before food, relieves acidity and digests the heaviest of meals.
12.
INFLUENZA
A scientist in Spain has proved that honey contains a natural ingredient, which kills the influenza germs and saves the patient from flu.
13.
LONGEVITY:
Tea made with honey and cinnamon powder, when taken regularly arrests the ravages of old age. Take 4 spoons of honey, 1spoon of cinnamon powder and 3 cups of water and boil to make like tea. Drink 1/4 cup, 3 to 4 times a day. It keeps the skin fresh and soft and arrests old age. Life span also increases and even if a person is 100 years old, starts performing the chores of a 20-year-old.
14.
PIMPLES:
Three tablespoons of honey and one teaspoon of cinnamon powder paste. Apply this paste on the pimples before sleeping and wash it next morning with warm water. If done daily for two weeks, it removes pimples from the root.
15.
SKIN INFECTIONS:
Applying honey and cinnamon powder in equal parts on the affected parts cures eczema, ringworm and all types of skin infections.
16.
WEIGHT LOSS:
Daily in the morning, 1/2 hour before breakfast on an empty stomach and at night before sleeping, drink honey and cinnamon powder boiled in one-cup water. If taken regularly it reduces the weight of even the most obese person. Also drinking of this mixture regularly does not allow the fat to accumulate in the body even though the person may eat a high calorie diet.
17.
CANCER:
Recent research in Japan and Australia has reveled that advanced cancer of the stomach and bones have been cured successfully. Patients suffering from these kinds of cancer should daily take one tablespoon of honey with one teaspoon of cinnamon powder for one month 3 times a day.
18.
FATIGUE:
Recent studies have shown that the sugar content of honey is more helpful than detrimental to the body strength. Senior citizens who take honey and cinnamon power in equal parts are more alert and flexible. Dr. Milton who has done research says that half tablespoon honey taken in one glass of water and sprinkled with cinnamon powder, taken daily after brushing and in the afternoon at about 3.00 p.m. when the vitality of the body starts decreasing, increases the vitality of the body within a week.
19.
BAD BREATH:
People of South America, first thing in the morning gargle with one teaspoon of honey and cinnamon powder mixed in hot water. So their breath stays fresh throughout the day.
20.
SINUS & HEADACHES:
Drink mix up with honey & lemon juice helps sinus headaches.



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Makara Sankranti - 14-15/1/2008 - Gindi Mela in Garhwal Region..!! Uttarakhand, Uttaranchal..!!

Dear Members!!

"Gindi Mela" is a major fair held in the southern part of Garhwal in Uttarakhand. This fair is celebrated during the auspicious festival of Makara Sankranti. It is a major event, attracting people from far and near to the villages where this fair is celebrated.
The Gindi fair is synonymous with bravery, joy and competitive spirits. The word ‘gindi’ means ‘ball’ in the local language. As the name suggests, this fair is marked by a ball game. The game involves teams from two different villages. The main aim in this game is to capture the ball. The team that succeeds to get the ball over its side is declared the winner. The winning team takes home the ball, amidst celebrations and dances.
I belongs to Patty Maniyarsuin (East) and I have been part of these melas and enjoys a lot. This time also, I am planning to go to my native place for celebrating/watch this auspicious festival.

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Pauri Garhwal Group Team, Uttarakhand, Uttaranchal- Wishes You All - A Very Happy New Year 2008..!!

Friends,

We are sending you the warmest wishes filled with joy, laughter, love, peace, happiness and lots of new year resolutions & achievements this holiday season and throughout the coming New Year 2008.

Happy New Year -- 2008.

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Gharwal / Garhwali Cuisine

Garhwali / Garhwal Cuisine of Uttarakhand

The term uttarakhand cuisine is used to denote cuisine from both kumaon and garhwal regions of uttarakhand. The traditional uttarakhand cuisine is highly nutritious, easy to prepare.

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Deep in Drudgery: Women and Health in Uttarakhand..!!

Source Posted by ANON

The consequences of the ever-increasing workload of hill women can be directly witnessed in their declining health status. They tend to suffer in isolation and become accustomed to several of their physical complications. But, on unlocking their silence, immense ordeal regarding their health conditions is revealed, in addition to the mental affliction they have been undergoing timidly. In Uttarakhand, women of varied ages undertake severe physical work in the coarse environment of the mountains. Besides, the cultural conditions have created a biased ambience, which has made women to fail to realize their basic rights.In spite of undertaking hard physical work, a hill woman’s intake of food is always low and less nutritious. The food intake is never balanced to her energy spent on daily activities. Anaemic cases in the hills are found at every other step. Stressful work has also led to muscle pain, back pain, foot pain etc and has severely affected their reproductive health (this will be discussed later). The specific health risks occurring due to women-related work include respiratory problems due to long hours spent indoors on cooking with fuel wood; sore and pain in the hips, shoulders and legs for carrying heavy loads of fodder and water; and bearing infections while working at unclean cowsheds – the tradition of girls sleeping in cowsheds during menstruation is commonly found in the hills.Examining the social aspects of women’s drudgery, the situation is found to be far worse from the mental health perspective. Traditionally, women are denied their basic rights and freedom. Special cultural practices such as women washing the feet of the family elders every night overburden them with more work. The issue of violence against women is vastly spread over the hills and the terai region. The most common factor found in all cases of women abuse is liquor and for this reason, women generally identify liquor as their deadly enemy spoiling their family peace and devouring the household economy. Submissive women are beaten up and harassed by dominant alcoholic husbands. Besides, such beatings are regular and, at times, criminally violent. A woman, who has spent all day in undertaking strenuous tasks, indoor as well as outdoor, is mercilessly battered at night. She barely succeeds in protecting her small children from the husband’s abuse, facing damaging consequences on her physical and mental health. Mental stress during times of reproductive period has its irreparable impact on infants and may lead to mortality or psychological setback in later years.Village women have explained the disastrous effects of liquor taking over them and their subsistence economy. The country-made liquor made of chemicals, sugar lumps, toxicants and dirty water of open streams directly harms the health of the person who uses it. Men usually resort to drinking because of personal socio-economic problems and become addicts. They start spending their limited earnings on buying liquor. The household economy falls down and women are burdened with the task of earning income for the survival of their children and themselves. Prevalence of tuberculosis, liver problems and stomach ailments reduce the working capacity of men. The economic situation deteriorates with increased borrowings and landlessness; all taken away by liquor.In the hills and the terai region, girls are married at an age between 14-18 years because people believe in the traditional thinking that a girl’s real home is with her husband and not with her parents; so she is married off as early as possible and sent away to her husband. But the serious impact causing on the reproductive health of these girls is hardly estimated or known. These girls are expected to bear children from the age of 17-18 years onwards to the detriment of putting both mother and child at the threshold of morbidity. The RCH (Reproductive and Child Health) programmes of the government are still lacking behind with elements of quality and outreach. ANMs’ (Auxilliary Nurse Midwives) inaccessibility to remote villages and community’s low awareness on RCH-related issues have denied a greater number of women with the facility to undergo ante-natal care. Anaemia cases have shown no reduction in spite of good distribution of IFA (Iron and Folic) tablets. Village women have a tendency to either throw away these tablets or leave them behind at the subcentre due to dubious reasons that these tablets cause giddiness or headache. The lack of awareness and low-level of information are visible reasons for entertaining such kinds of beliefs. The ANMs’ lack of motivation and poor knowledge dissemination during distribution is responsible for poor information resources of the community.The sweeping number of non-institutional deliveries in Uttarakhand is a compelling issue to be addressed. More than 80% of deliveries are conducted by untrained dais (local name for Traditional Birth Attendants) following age-old methods and practices of labour. The research study has shown that this act is steeped in ignorance, misinformation and superstition and has led to the occurrence of several reproductive health complications including maternal and infant mortality and morbidity. The untrained dais undertake deliveries amidst unhygienic surroundings. The method of forcefully pulling the child out of the womb has made the women suffer from prolapse. Dais are always incapable of handling high-risk deliveries in villages and, during such helpless times, suggest taking the pregnant woman to hospital. Most of the maternal and infant deaths in the hills take place while they are being transported to hospital during delivery times; the distance and inaccessibility issues again emerging at such points. In order to reduce the high infant mortality cases, it is important to address the issue of non-institutional deliveries in a holistic manner.Child immunization practices were found to be low during research. Women usually avoid taking their children to immunization camps or subcentres either because of lack of awareness, no availability of time due to heavy workload, long and inaccessible distance and cultivating of false notions that immunization is harmful to children. Huge drop-outs are seen in rural areas and the maintenance of immunization cards is a mere act of formality, rather than signifying facts on immunization status.Colustrum feeding in the hills is quite low and out of practice. Again, complete absence of post-natal services and prevalence of superstition prevent mothers in providing first milk to infants because “it is dirty and not good to the new born.” Traditional practices such as nobody should take anything eatable offered by a woman soon after delivery is profoundly set in the minds of both men and women.Adoption of family planning methods is mostly done by women. The data in the hills on female sterilisation is high. Men avoid using condoms as they are usually under the influence of alcohol during acts of sex. They do not take up sterilisation because of the prevailing myth that “men work harder and they should not be asked to undergo vasectomy.” This is, though, contradictory to the entire hill scenario, but these very words of assumption have come straight out of women. They think it is justified if men do not follow family planning principles and women bear the burden of it as well. Use of oral pills is low because women believe that they cause headaches. IUD insertion is avoided because there is no follow-up care given at government health centres.Women in the hills have a propensity to take up work within 10-12 days after giving birth to a child. This is just another reason for women suffering from prolapse and other reproductive health problems. The prolapse of uterus is so widespread among women that it can be said that it is one of the major causes for their poor confidence-levels and constant mental stress. This problem keeps interfering with their daily work and it discourages them from going out of the village or being in front of men. Some women hardly know what it is although they complain that “something keeps coming out of the vagina” while they walk or work.They adopt the habit of stopping for a while and putting it back, rather than consulting someone on this due to the fear of facing embarrassment. They fail to seek treatment on this either because there is no lady doctor at the PHC (Primary Health Centre) or the cost of it at a private clinic is very high.The ANM (Auxiliary Nurse Midwife) is hopeless in this matter as she just refers the patient. “We are afraid to go out of the village, so how can we go to hospital. And, by the way, there is no lady doctor at there to look into our problem,” says a woman suffering and representing this problem.Prevalence of reproductive and sexual infections is largely seen in women. This is not only because biologically they are more susceptible to the infections, but also because they do not follow hygienic practices during menstruation. They fail to consult to the doctor at the first stage of the disease and, thus, give way to more complications. High chances of contracting HIV exist when their migrated husbands return back home carrying infections. The socio-cultural norms do not allow them to spend the household economy for their treatment, as a woman’s illness is not a matter of serious concern. Women also end up in hiding these problems and thereby, husbands and in-laws remain insensitive to these severe complications and their consequences.

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The Rural Development Interventions in Uttarakhand..

BY : ANON. Ever since the formation of Uttaranchal, developmental interventions at a substantial scale are being carried out, mostly in specialized sectors. The infancy phase of the state, the social and economic marginality of the community living in this mountainous region and the government’s strong livelihood promotion policies have drawn considerable investments from bilateral, multi-lateral and ministerial agencies for improving the socio-economic and cultural well-being of the communities. The state has been receiving ample amount of loans from the World Bank in developing specific sectors such as agriculture, water and sanitation, watershed, health and education. Bilateral agencies like USAID (United States Agency for International Development) and CIDA (Canadian International Development Agency) have even prioritized the state of Uttaranchal in their list of focal states for providing development funding. The Delegation of the European Union represented by the European Commission has been supporting programmes in watershed development and, recently, in health sector reforms. UN agencies such as WFP (World Food Programme) and UNDP (United Nations Development Programme) have collaborated with the Department of Women Empowerment and Child Welfare and Disaster Management Unit of the Government of Uttaranchal respectively.The Ministry of Human Resource Development has launched welfare schemes and programmes such as the Swa-Shakti Programme, Rastriya Mahila Kosh and Swamyasiddha, which are functioning either independently or jointly with state government and NGOs and promoting one or all aspects of livelihood development in Uttaranchal.At the state-level, various units of the state government are also involved in implementing livelihood promotion programmes. The Rural Development Department is at the forefront in putting into operation Central Government Schemes such as the SGSY (Swarnjayanti Gramin Swarozgar Yojana), which has been funding micro-enterprise initiatives (mushroom production, wool production, handicrafts, poultry, medicinal plants etc) of the rural community. The Department has lead banks in almost all the districts to help the community access credit and it has also collaborated with the National Life Insurance Company and Oriental Insurance Company to provide micro-insurance services to marginal farmers. Other programmes of the Department include: Sampoorna Gramin Rozgar Yojana (SGRY), Indira Awaas Yojana, Pradhan Mantri Gramodaya Yojana- Gramin Awaas, Credit-cum-Subsidy, Unnat Chulha, Biogas, Drought Prone Area Program (DPAP), Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY) and Integrated Wasteland Development Programme (IWDP). The Department also leads state sponsored schemes such as Vidhayak Nidhi, Sansad Nidhi and Community Development Programme. Some of these programmes are implemented in selected districts and some others on experimental basis. The Department has also instituted training centres to organize capacity building programmes for rural communities. At present, there are: 1 State Institute for Rural Development at state-level, 5 Regional Institutes for Rural Development and 3 District Institutes for Rural Development.In the Cooperative Sector, Uttaranchal has a State Cooperative Bank as an apex institution in the state, following District Cooperative Banks at district-level and at the village-level, smaller units called PACS (Primary Agriculture Cooperative Societies). Other cooperative institutions include the Uttaranchal State Cooperative Marketing Federation Limited and the Uttaranchal Cooperative Sericulture Federation Limited. The Cooperative Department coordinates projects such as the Sahakari Rrun avam Adhikoshan Yojana, Sahakari Krya-Vikraya Yojana, Sahkari Upabhokta Yojana etc. The state has about 763 PACS and 103 Primary Consumer Cooperative Societies. There is also the Institute of Cooperative Management, providing training and management services to cooperators. The Department has recently collaborated with ICICI Prudential Life Insurance Company for provision of micro-insurance services to rural farmers.The Uttaranchal Rural Water Supply and Environmental Sanitation (SWAJAL) Project, supported by the World Bank, has begun its phase II programme covering all the thirteen districts of the state. The SWAJAL project has a focus upon delivering sustainable health and hygiene benefits to the rural populations through improvement in water supply and environmental sanitation services and promoting long-term sustainability of rural water supply and sanitation. The project has considerable focus on livelihood promotion as it emphatically focuses upon SHG mobilization, income generation, savings and thrift, women empowerment, time saving technologies and general awareness.The Agriculture Department’s Watershed Management Directorate is currently implementing the Integrated Watershed Development Project (Phase II) in all the thirteen districts of Uttaranchal with the objective of improving the productive potential of the project area, using watershed treatment technologies and community participation approaches and contributing towards decreasing soil erosion, increasing water availability and alleviating poverty. The Department is also carrying out other programmes such as the Micro-mode programme providing subsidies to rural farmers in accessing agricultural technology, seeds and pest management. Innovative programmes such as crop insurance are also being experimented in pocket areas. Financial assistance to marginal farmers is given through crop-based programmes such as Makka Vikas Programme, Dalhan Uthpadan Vikas Programme etc.The Department of Industrial Development has allotted certain schemes for rural masses such as the Pradhan Mantri Rozgar Yojana (PMRY) to provide financial assistance to agriculture and industries in rural areas. The Department has a specialized unit of Khadi and Village Industries with multi-disciplinary training centres in different parts of the state. These centres provide regular training to rural entrepreneurs in small industries such as woolen hosiery, embroidery, bee keeping, diamond cutting, candle making etc. The unit also runs financial assistance schemes such as interest-cum-subsidy scheme and margin money scheme in the interest of small-scale rural industrialists.Other departments such as the Horticulture and Livestock Departments have also various programmes for livelihood improvement in Uttaranchal. The State Government’s development focused activities have also led to formation of autonomous bodies, initially promoted by the government itself, on specific sectors such as organic farming, bamboo, livestock etc. The boards in place at the moment are Forest Development Board, Bamboo and Fiber, Livestock and Cattle Development, Uttaranchal Mandi Vikas Parishad and Organic Boards.The Department of Women Empowerment and Child Development is carrying out ICDS (Integrated Child Development Scheme) programmes with the support of WFP and the World Bank to improve the nutritional security of the community. The programme is currently implemented in 40 blocks of the state and has created a force of community-based aaganwadi workers and has established 6378 aaganwadi centres to cover about 15000 habitations all over Uttaranchal. Mahila Samakhya is another major programme of this Department implemented for working towards women empowerment in the state.In the health sector, the Department of Medical Health and Family Welfare has recently established the Uttaranchal Health and Family Welfare Society (SCOVA), an autonomous organization working to carry out health sector reforms and improve the efficiency of the management systems of the health programmes. SCOVA is implementing Sector Investment Programme (SIP) of the European Commission covering Fixed Day (immunization) services, policy reforms, emergency obstetric care, Chikitsa Sudhar Samiti, drug policy and other health management-led concepts such as IEC, (Information, Education and Communication), logistics etc. It is also in the process of planning programmes focusing upon integrating SHGs with community health services and creating a large cadre of trained community health workers at hamlet-level or village-level, as the need be, all across the state.NABARD, the apex institution for rural credit is providing investment and production credit for promotion of various developmental activities in Uttaranchal. It is working towards institution building for improving capacity of the credit delivery system, including monitoring, formulation of rehabilitation schemes, restructuring of credit institutions, training of personnel, coordinating the rural financing activities, preparing rural credit plans for all districts, undertaking monitoring and evaluation of projects refinanced by it and promoting research in the fields of rural banking, agriculture and rural developmentThe Community Based Economic Development Project (CBED) is an important project implemented by NGOs (CECI, KAGAS and HSC) and funded by CIDA. The project is working to reduce poverty in 250 villages of Pithoragarh and Champawat Districts. The four-year tenure project is being implemented on pilot basis, replicating a similar model successfully experimented upon in Nepal. CBED has a focus upon promoting self-reliant institutions and has played an active part in advocating and promoting the Uttaranchal Self-Reliant Cooperative Act, upholding community-owned cooperatives for economic upliftment of the hill communities. CBED has also promoted NTFP production, agricultural technologies, CBO management, institutional strengthening, responsive development funds, economic literacy, gender development and sub-sector analysis. The project has been working closely with the Government of Uttaranchal and has been actively providing policy feedback.The Department of Energy established the Uttaranchal Renewable Energy Development Agency (UREDA), as a nodal organization working on non-conventional energy. It has established solar units and solar fencing in remote villages of the state for provision of lighting facilities and supply of electricity for cottage-based industries. It also develops the capacities of rural communities in managing solar units. Rural workshops have also been set up and village youths have been trained in repairing and maintenance of solar technology. In addition to this, village-level funds are mobilized to cover the maintenance costs of the systems and village-level solar committees have also been formed to supervise their functioning. UREDA has offices in all districts of the state.

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“If we discard rapid industrialization in Uttarakhand, then what else should we adopt?”

Are we folling the wrong Path! -- BY ANIL BISHT

From the time Uttarakhand came into existence, the people of the state have seen many changes. Even if these changes are more visual in the urban areas, still one thing that reached even to the remotest corner of the state is HOPE. A hope that the formation of the state will usher a new era in every desired activity. The light of prosperity will touch every household and elevate the standard of living of every resident of the state. There were strong reasons to believe the same. The foremost among these were the unique flora and fauna, unique climate, and modest stock of untapped natural resources.But after seven years and three governments, the state is struggling to achieve what it aspired to achieve at its birth. In other words the state is still faring below its potential. That brings us--the people and the Government of the state, to ask ourselves, why?Uttarakhand is a state where education is still concentrated in a few major cities. The rest of the regions still have to recognize the utility of education. Those who are physically fit, join the armed forces. Although the no. of people getting into forces has reduced significantly in the last two decades, it is still the most sort after profession for the hill youth. So people in the state still consider education as a mere step to get into the forces.In addition to that the hard terrain and inclement weather also makes the education a real tough task. From the early age children have to help their elders in the agricultural activity and household chores, making it difficult for them to concentrate on their studies, As a result those who can’t make it to the army, find themselves unfit for majority of the modern day jobs.Adding to this is the nature of land holdings. The land holdings in the state are very small except for a few in the plain regions. As a result, with each passing day, it is becoming increasingly difficult for a family to survive on the piece of land they hold.So it is quite natural for us to believe that whenever any new policy is made by the government, it has taken the weak education of the youth and small land holdings factors into consideration. But from the way successive governments have functioned, it seems these factors though central are never given adequate attention.The model the three governments up to now are following is that of rapid industrialization. For them more industries mean more jobs and greater well being. To fulfill this objective, SEZs have been established at many places and new industrial licenses are being given every day. It is true that jobs are created when industries or to be more precise manufacturing units are set up, but what can be done if the education required for these jobs is not present. Apart from that what to do of the sharks of the job market—the so called man power consultants who force those who manage to get the job to work for below subsistence wages.We-the people and the Government of the state, should realise that inviting industrialists to the state will never solve our problems. First the land resource in the state is scarce and can be put into better use; and second whoever comes to the state to set up industries is not coming to elevate the living standard of the people but because he or she is getting land relatively cheaper than other states. That brings us to another question “If we discard rapid industrialization, then what else should we adopt?”This question though simple needs serious thinking. So lets think something worth and share…

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The forests in Uttarakhand have been valued at $2.4 billion or Rs.107 billion per year in terms of services they provide to the people.

Study: value of forests should be recognised and compensated

Special Correspondent The Hindu...

Valuation, a balanced approach for conservation of ecosystems
Forests’ contribution reflected in SDP is only 3.50 per cent

NEW DELHI: The forests in Uttarakhand have been valued at $2.4 billion or Rs.107 billion per year in terms of services they provide to the people. This needs to be recognised and compensated, says a new report.
The average value of $1,150 per hectare per year for the services provided needs to be reflected in our economic planning and compensated for, according to the study ‘Valuation of Ecosystem Services and Forest Governance, in Uttarakhand, as a scoping study,’ brought out by LEAD India and its partner organisation, Central Himalayan Environmental Association (Uttarakhand). The report evaluates and quantifies the services rendered by the Himalayan ecosystem in the State, and is the first comprehensive collation of scientific information around various Ecosystem Services using mainly secondary sources.
Ecosystem Services is defined as a wide range of conditions and processes through which natural ecosystems, and the species that make them up, sustain and fulfil human life. As many as 32 such services, including carbon sequestration, climate management, hydrological regulation, timber, soil conservation, pollination and other non-timber forest produces have been identified so far.
The report described valuation as a balanced approach for conservation of ecosystems that calls to conserve whatever remains and restore it in areas where it is possible, rather than spending time and resources on selecting biodiversity rich areas.
Despite making considerable contribution in Uttarakhand’s economic and ecological systems, forests do not get proper recognition for their contribution in the State Domestic Product (SDP) in the absence of proper valuation and lack of information to decision-makers.
Its contribution reflected in the SDP is only 3.50 per cent (Rs.5,109.6 million) as only few goods and services from these forests are marketed and thus accounted in the current calculus, the report suggests.
Uttarakhand is rich in endemic biodiversity and the forests provide ecosystem services of high magnitude to the Indo-Gangetic Plain in terms of regulated water supply and nutrients rich soil through its river connections, thereby sustaining the livelihoods of about 500 million people inhabiting the area. Livelihoods for more than 5 million mountain-dwellers are also mainly forest-based.
The study further says that whatever success the people in mountains have achieved in conserving their forests, they have been able to do so without any access to modern energy sources.
From equity point of view alone, the poor people in Uttarakhand should be given support to have alternatives to biomass fuel.

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Struggle for Capital Gairsain Goes On : Second phase of Uttarakhand Movement !!

Gairsain is not an unfamiliar idea. It was widely accepted as the capital of Uttarakhand even before the demand for a separate hill state came into full swing in 1994. In fact, Gairsain is not a geographical entity alone, it is a complete philosophy of development to be achieved through the 73rd and 74th Amendments of our Constitution.If the present state of things is to be kept forever, then it is alright to make Dehradun as the permanent capital of Uttaranchal. But if we want to tilt our priorities towards that distant person, who has been left far behind in the U.P. model of development, then we will have to make Gairsain our capital. Dehradun means that those who are already better off, will continue to reap the harvest of well being in this new state too. Gairsain means that the government is determined to go to the door of the poorest. Dehradun in no way represents a geography in which the people, though provided handsomely by mother nature, are forced to live in utter poverty. It is as simple as that.The irony is, that those who were never interested in a separate state, and in fact who opposed the very idea of Uttarakhand are ruling it since it came into being. Mr. Narayan Dutt Tewari had declared in 1994, ''I will not allow Uttarakhand to take shape as long as I am alive.'' Today he heads this state. What a mockery of all those martyrs who sacrificed their lives to fulfil a dream of their people!Even after Uttaranchal became a reality, Baba Mohan Uttarakhandi had to lay down his life for Gairsain after a fast, lasting 39 days. This tragic event took place on 9th August 2004. Then the activists of Uttarakhand Mahila Manch took over. They started a fast unto death, two at a time, from 2nd October, the tenth anniversary of the infamous Muzaffarnagar incident. During the fast when one woman, whose condition deteriorated, would be forcibly removed and force-fed by Chamoli District Police and Administration, another would take her place. Women activists had to bear the cruel repression of the police, as they were often lathi charged while being forcibly removed. This sequence continued for 63 days. But no one from the Uttaranchal Government came to talk to the women.This was when the Congress Govt. in Andhra Pradesh was holding talks with the outlawed Naxalite outfits across the table, in Uttaranchal the Chief Minister did not consider the women activists, who sacrificed everything in the historic movement of 1994, fit to talk with. The Uttaranchal Chief Secretary remarked sarcastically, ''Uttarakhand activists should not agitate for an impossible demand.'' This same man, Dr. R.S.Tolia, as a secretary in undivided U.P., had finalised the Ramashankar Kaushik Cabinet Committee report in 1994 which, after prolonged deliberations, had declared Gairsain as the most suitable place for the capital of proposed Uttarakhand state. This apathy forced the Uttarakhand activists to review their tactics.The Uttaranchal Government had no concern for their lives. The mainstream media would not write about them, as a propagator of consumer economy, it covertly supports the idea of keeping up the capital in Dehradun. Bureaucrats and businessmen in Dehradun does suit its commercial interests more than the ill fed and half naked villagers. If media does not ridicule the emotions of Uttarakhand, it tries to ignore them. So, the best idea, the activists thought, will be to go straight to the people. It was the people who had made the impossible task possible and created this state. But now let down by the politicians, disillusioned and disorganised, they sought counsel. ''Padyatra'' was the time tested method.Mahatma Gandhi had undertaken many Padyatras to know the Indian people better. Dandi Yatra is a glorious page of our history. Even recently, Dr. Rajshekhar Reddy took a Padyatra to defeat the might of Chandra Babu Nayadu in Andhra Pradesh. Well, they are going to the people and will undertake as many Padyatras, as possible, this was decided by the Uttarakhand Samyukta Sangharsh Samiti. Led by Dr. Shamsher Singh Bisht, President of Uttarakhand Lok Vahini, Kamla Pant and Dr. Uma Bhatt of Uttarakhand Mahila Manch and veteran journalist Harish Chandola the first Padyatra started on 5th December 2004 from Gairsain. Well known poet and cultural activist Girish Tewari ''Girda'' and Editor of ''Pahar'' Dr. Shekhar Pathak were there among others to see them off. Congress M.L.A. Pradeep Tamta accompanied the first Padyatris for a while. The last pair of hunger strikers, Chandrakala Chamoli and Padma Gupta were with these Padyatris in a jeep. On the way these two were forcibly taken away by the Police in Gholteer, near Karnaprayag and were put in a hospital.The youngest among the Padyatris was 11 years old Aditya Pande, who did not mind walking 15 to 20 Kms per day. Everywhere the Padyatris were accorded a warm welcome. The Padyatris sung songs, raised slogans, distributed their pamphlets titled ''Gairsain ka matlab sabke chehre par muskan aaye'' (Gairsain means a smile on every face) and ''Sirf bhavnayen hee nahin hain Gairsain aandolan ke peeche'' (There are not only emotions behind the Gairsain movement) and sold the Pahar booklet ''Rajdhani Ka Prasna'' (The question of the capital) on their way. They addressed quick meetings wherever they saw a few shops. Their boarding and lodging was taken care of by those who symphathised with their cause, they did not have to pay for it.Oh yes, they were presented with little purses whenever they requested the audience after a roadside meeting. With this money they were able to pay for the rent and fuel of the jeep following them, with a sound system and their luggage and literature. Walking almost 200 Kms. through Jangalchatti, Adibadri, Simli, Karnaprayag, Rudraprayag, Srinagar, Kirtinagar, Maletha, Pachhmoli, Devprayag, Vyasi, Vashisht Gufa, Tapovan, Muni Ki Reti, Swargashram, Rishikesh, Raiwala, Bhaniawala and Doiwala, 16 tired but smiling Padyatris reached Jogiwala at the outskirts of Dehradun on the evening of 19th December.They included Dr. Shamsher Singh Bisht, Kamla Pant, Rajiv Lochan Sah, Jabbar Singh Powel, Mahesh Chandra Joshi, Pooran Chandra Tewari, Daya Krishna Kandpal, Manish Sundariyal, Dinesh Chandra Joshi, K.C.Joshi, Pushkar Singh Lodhiyal, Dan Singh Bisht, Soban Singh, Pushpa Chauhan, Neetu Badoni and Heera Bisht. Next day, on their final leg towards Vidhan Sabha Bhawan, they were joined by hundreds of local Samyukta Sangharsh Morcha activists.The police had put a big barricade to stop them at Rispana Bridge, but it could not hold the demonstrators for long. They broke loose and held a two hour long public meeting outside the Vidhan Sabha gate. On 21st of December 2004 Uttarakhand Samyukta Sangharsh Morcha started a 5 day Upvaas on Rajpur Road, in front of the Rajya Sachivalay gate. There was a scuffle with the Police when they put up the tent there, but finally the Police had to back out. Five persons, Kamla Pant, Rajiv Lochan Sah, Chandrakala Bisht, Satish Lakhera and Manish Sundariyal undertook the five day fast, while others accompanied them with 24 hours relay fast.People in large numbers, from all sections of society came to the Upvaas Sthal to express their support. They listened to the activists, took their literature, became familiar with the concept of Gairsain and offered whatever money they could spare for this cause. One fact that was obvious during this Upvaas was that eighty percent of the residents of Dehradun are tired of the so called ''Provisional Capital.'' They have been deprived of their peaceful life. Dehradun has become a noisy and polluted town. Crime is on the increase. Only twenty percent of the populace is satisfied with the Capital''s present location. These are the people, who have successfully put themselves inside the scheme of things and are reaping the harvest of a new state in form of contracts and other businesses.During this Upvaas, the Uttarakhand Mahila Manch activists angered by some remarks of Justice Virendra Dixit, chairman of one man Rajdhani Sthal Chayan Ayog, published in Press, ''gheraoed'' him and also stopped the Delhi bound Shatabdi Express for a while. Justice Dixit was unable to answer the demonstrators'' question that if he was honest in his intentions, then why did he not stop the State Government from spending lavishly in Dehradun and gave it an excuse for the future that after so much expenditure it would be unwise to remove the capital from there. Meanwhile, Uttarakhand Kranti Dal also started a fast unto death in Dehradun Collectorate compound. The first hunger striker, Prithvi Chand Ramola, was forcibly removed and force-fed within two days. The others followed suit. The first Padyatra was a morale boosting experience for the activists and within a fortnight Uttarakhand Samyukta Sangharsh Morcha started another one.They started from Gairsain on the 7th of January. This time the destination was Bageshwar, where they were to reach on the auspicious day of Makar Sankranti. Makar Sankranti is observed as the famous Uttarayani Fair in Bageshwar. This day has a political importance too. On the Uttarayani of 1921, the registers of Coolie Begar, i.e., forced labour were set afloat in the confluence of Saryu and Gomti by the Kumaon Parishad activists under the leadership of Pt. Badri Dutt Pande and hence a disgraceful custom was put to an end. Since that day, it has become customary, first for the Congress and after Independence for other political parties too, to hold their rallies in Bageshwar on every Uttarayani. It was an appropriate time for Uttarakhand activists to address the masses. So in a manner, similar to the previous Padyatra, the group of Uttarakhand Samyukta Sangharsh Morcha activists reached Bageshwar on the afternoon of 13th January 2004 via Panduwakhal, Chaukhutia, Dwarahaat, Binta, Someshwar, Kausani and Garur,.The group included Dr. Shamsher Singh Bisht, Kamla Pant, Rajiv Lochan Sah, Pushpa Chauhan, Mahesh Chandra Joshi, Daya Krishna Kandpal, Pooran Chandra Tewari, Bhaskar Upreti, Ramesh Pargain, Manish Sundariyal, Deepak Maithani, Laxman Giri Goswami, Dinesh Chandra Joshi, Soban Singh, Kalawati Goswami, Chandrakala Chamoli, Devki Farswan, Savitri Silswal and Pawna Semwal. Dr. Uma Bhatt and Satish Lakhera had to drop out midway for personal reasons. The slogan shouting group was given a warm reception by Bageshwar District Bar Association, where they addressed a meeting. In the evening they were offered the Bageshwar Mela Samiti Stage meant for cultural programmes. The voice of Dr. Shamsher Singh Bisht, elaborating the concept of Gairsain, was carried far and wide through the loud speakers scattered all over the town. The activist even had the songs of Girda, Narendra Singh Negi and Zahoor Alam for the audience.Later they marched through the streets of Bageshwar with their songs, slogans and pamphlets. In comparison, the performance of the other political parties like the BJP and the Congress in the historic ''Bagar'' was lack lustre and poorly attended. Padyatras have now been suspended for a while, keeping the adverse winter weather in mind. They will soon start again. The Uttarakhand Samyukta Sangharsh Morcha has decided on some treks. One will be in the Nanda Devi Bio Sphere Reserve area of Chamoli district, where the villagers have been deprived of their customary rights in the forests. Another Padyatra will be taken through the catchment of Bhagirathi and Bhilangna rivers in Tehri district, where entire stretches of the rivers have been sold to the outside companies without taking the local populace in confidence. Yet another Yatra, Sangharsh Morcha plans from Almora to Dharchula near the Nepal border.After all these Padyatras, with all doubts and confusions removed from the minds of the people and persons with zeal and courage identified, Uttarakhand Samyukta Sangharsh Morcha intends to hold a meeting on the 23rd of April 2005, the anniversary of the Peshawar incident, when Veer Chandra Singh Garhwali refused to fire on unarmed Pathans and instead opted for life imprisonment. In this convention the strategy for the next round of Uttarakhand movement will be decided. Meanwhile angered by the apathy of the state MLAs, who totally ignored the ongoing agitation about Gairsain in the entire winter session of Vidhan Sabha and preferred to get their allowances enhanced instead, Kamla Pant, convener of Uttarakhand Samyukta Sangharsh Morcha and Satish Lakhera, convener of its Gairsen unit staged a protest in the House on 20th January, the last day of the session by slogan shouting. They were immediately arrested but were let free later in the evening. So, the struggle for Gairsain goes on.

K.S.RAWAT
NEW DELHI, UTTARAKHAND, UTTARANCHAL,
PAURI, TEHRI, CHAMOLI, GAIRSAIN, NAINITAL,
KUMAON, GARHWALI, GARHWAL
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Determine plan priorities as per state-specific needs of Uttaranchal, Uttarakhand : B. C. Khanduri!!

NEW DELHI: Enumerating the problems of his state on account of its hilly terrain, Uttarakhand Chief Minister B C Khanduri on Wednesday asked the Centre to determine plan priorities according to region and state-specific needs. Khanduri also urged the Centre to relax norms for developing health and medical infrastructure keeping in mind the remoteness of villages and also low population density of the state. "Determination of plan priorities should be according to region and state-specific needs, problems and constraints of economic development and status of resource endowment," he said in his address at the 54th meeting of the National Development Council here. The Forest Conservation Act, 1980, should be so amended as to exclude the "settled revenue lands" from the definition of "forests" and the lands not having forest cover should not be treated as forest. "Adequate priority should be given in the plan to programmes for checking soil erosion," he added. The Chief Minister said that a second green revolution should be initiated keeping in mind the below subsistence agriculture in hilly areas of the Himalayan states. Resources from the 11th five-year plan would be required to extend administrative support to the self-help group movement and delivery of micro-finance, he said. Apart from this, he also asked the Centre to enact at the earliest the legal framework to protect the rights of people being displaced due to variety of developmental projects and natural disasters.

K.S.RAWAT

NEW DELHI, UTTARAKHAND, UTTARANCHAL,

PAURI, TEHRI, CHAMOLI, GAIRSAIN, NAINITAL,

KUMAON, GARHWALI, GARHWAL

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Patwari- पटवारी उत्तराखंड की निहत्थी पुलिस

D.N. Barola

चौंकाने की बात नहीं है पर यह सच है कि उत्तराखंड के ग्रामीण अंचल मैं निहत्थी पुलिस आज भी कार्य कर रही है. गाँधी के देस मैं अजूबा पटवारी अहिंसक पुलिस के रुप मैं पिछले २०० सालों से सुचारू रुप से कार्य कर रही है. धारा ३०२ जैसे जघन्य अपराध की जांच भी पटवारी ही करता है हथियार के नाम पर उसके पास एक डंडा ही होता है. मुलजिम को बंद करने के लिए कमरा भी नहीं होता. रात्रि को अपराधी को बंद करने हेतु वह अक्सर हत्गादी hatgari को अपराधी व खुद के हाथ मैं बांध लेटा था. पटवारी को वर्दी भी नहीं मिलती ऐसे मैं कौन अपराधी है कौन पटवारी पहिचानाना था. मुश्किल हो जाता. मैं संसार का एक मात्र अजूबा पटवारी ट्रेनिंग स्कूल है. पहाड़ कि शांत प्रिय जनता पटवारी व्यवस्था को अच्छा समझती है.

K.S.RAWAT

UTTARANCHAL, UTTARAKHAND

KUMAON, GARHWAL, GARHWALI

HILL STATION OF UTTARAKHAND, UTTARANCHAL -- Lansdowne..!!

Lansdowne, Lord (1888-1894) Governor-General and Viceroy of India. Born on 14 January 1845, he had already served as the Governor General of Canada and Foreign Secretary of Great Britain and deputy leader of the Conservative Party before assuming the office of Governor-General in India. An unexpected turn on the Kotdwar-Pauri road brings you to Lansdowne, a pretty hill station in the Pauri Garhwal region of Uttaranchal. This beautiful retreat was popular with the British who established a Garhwal Rifles cantonment here during the Raj. The town is well developed thanks to the cantonment, yet it is charmingly unspoiled and tranquil. Lansdowne is set amidst lovely surroundings – tall oaks and blue pines rise like spires off the mountainside. The forests are lovely, dark and deep, just ideal for those long walks and picnics. There are amazing mountain views of the Western Himalayas from a number of vantage pints like Snow View and Tiffin Top. A number of treks into the hillside are launched from Lansdowne.

K.S.RAWAT

PAURI, CHAMOLI, TEHRI, NAINITAL, BHIMTAL, KUMAON, GARHWAL, NEW DELHI, UTTARAKHAND, UTTARANCHAL.

The song from the hills.. Pauri, Tehri, Chamoli, Uttarakhand, Uttaranchal..!!

Depicting him as a corrupt, flirtatious politician who neglects his duties as he whiles away his time in nefarious activities, the music video stars an actor with a striking resemblance to Tiwari.

Shubha Mudgal livemint.com

I really don’t know how you might be able to do so, but I would strongly recommend you give the song Nauchhammi Narena, or “Naughty Narayan”, a listen. It isn’t going to be an easy song to locate, I reckon, if the chase I had to give is any indicator. In fact, now might be the time to thank my driver, Suresh Kumar, for having found and bought the track for me for a meagre Rs54 (including taxes) at a store in New Delhi that stocks music from Uttarakhand.

Backstory: The song is about a corrupt politician
For those who are willing to take up a challenge, look for Nauchhammi Narena on a VCD called Uttaranchali Chitrageet, produced by Rama Cassettes and titled, what else, Nauchhammi Narena! And, oh yes, “Nauchhammi” is to be pronounced as you would nau or nine in Hindi, and chhammi to rhyme with Shammi. Sung by the hugely popular Uttarakhand singer Narendra Singh Negi, the album features eight Garhwali music videos, with an additional ninth track that contains the making of Nauchhammi Narena. Hailed in January as the Dylan of the hills by a Telegraph correspondent, Negi, also called the Mohammad Rafi of Uttarakhand, does what many an artiste would baulk at—he takes on the establishment in his title track with a blistering, scarcely veiled attack on the former chief minister of Uttarakhand, Narayan Dutt Tiwari.
Depicting him as a corrupt, flirtatious politician who neglects his duties as he whiles away his time in nefarious activities, the music video stars an actor with a striking resemblance to Tiwari. While Negi’s target is undoubtedly the Congress, he doesn’t have too many kind words for the Bharatiya Janata Party either. What’s more, he isn’t apologetic, even though the music video (now available on YouTube) starts with the declaration that all characters are imaginary and that resemblance to any individual is purely accidental. In an interview posted on a website, (younguttaranchal.com/uttarakhand-cinema/narendra-singh-negi-a-legend.html), Negi replies thus when asked whether his song upset Tiwari: “Whenever the truth is revealed, it is apparent that those affected by it would show their anguish. What I have communicated through the song are the feelings of the people of Uttaranchal, which they were otherwise unable to express openly. By doing so, I don’t feel like I have done anything wrong, and it is only the truth which I have communicated through this song.”
There is much that can be admired in Negi’s work. For instance, he uses the traditional devotional song form of jagar for his best-selling track and refuses to abandon folk instruments, such as the thali and damua, even while including the synthesizer that seems to have become part and parcel of Indian music from virtually any and every part of the country. Even his chorus looks like regular hill folk singing as they always would.
No makeovers, no wriggling, writhing cleavage-baring dancers in this music video, and that’s saying a lot these days. And there’s more that we can all learn from—he even takes care to acknowledge his team, including cameraman Ravi Bhatt, all the participating artistes, editor Kunal Vivek, and a music arranger with the most extraordinary name: H. Soni “Pum Pum”!
It has been a while since Nauchhami Narena was first launched and became a big hit. And I am relieved to see that Narendra Singh Negi hasn’t had to withdraw any offensive line from the song or edit any objectionable scene from the video. So what if the once feisty Taslima Nasreen has bowed to political pressure and promised to be a good girl and behave in favour of safe passage to Kolkata.

K.S.RAWAT

PAURI GARHWAL GROUP

NEW DELHI, INDIA

CHAMOLI, TEHRI, GAIRSAIN,

DEHRADUN, NAINITAL, GARHWAL, KUMAON

BHARTIYA JANTA PARTY, CONGRESS

GARHWALI, MUSIC, SONGS, FOLK SONGS

A Garhwali Fairytale... Uttarakhand, Uttaranchal

Contributed by Lakshmi......

A Garhwali Fairytale... Landowne, Pauri Garhwal, Uttaranchal, Uttarakhand

In the sweltering summer heat and scorching days, who wouldn't like to take a quick retreat over the weekend to de-stress, get far away from the maddening crowd and in touch with our inner-self. If you dream of romancing the mountains, exult in the un-spoilt scenery, breathe in the bracing air and relish the peace and tranquility of the snow covered peaks, then Lansdowne, is the perfect get-away choice. An unexpected turn on the Kotdwar Pauri road brings you to Lansdowne, a pretty hill station in the Pauri Garhwal of Uttaranchal.Ensconced with the world's highest and most beautiful mountain ranges, the Himalayas, Uttaranchal Hills are endowned with extraordinary beauty, majority of which is yet to be exposed to the sights and sounds of outside world. The majestic mountain peaks and the lush green flora abounding in the area make Lansdowne an ideal location for eco-tourism. There are amazing mountain views of the western Himalayas from a number of vantage points like Snow View and Tiffin Top. The clean fresh and invigorating environment makes Lansdowne a preferred destination to relax and unwind and a mere visit to the place is a truly rejuvinating experience. Free from all the trappings of the standard hill stations, Lansdowne offers a lot of options for true connoisseurs of nature. While there is the Siddhpeeth route for the pilgrims, there is wild life route for nature and animal lovers; adventure sports for the daring and health resorts and cultural tourism for the regular tourists. Till late 70s Lansdowne was the only city after Almora, which was the centre of cultural activities. Having adopted from the culture of Kumaonis, Garhwalis and Rajasthanis, the city boasts of an enriched culture centre. Named after Sir Henry Charles Fitzmauritz, the 5th Marques of Lansdowe, Viceroy of India from 1888 to 1894, the winding paths of the city are still lined with colonial bungalows. it is also home to the famed Garhwl Rifles....rather, the whole economy of the city revolves around the cantonment, which rigidly ensures that this little station is kept as spic and span as its own barracks. Set admist lovely surroundings, tall oaks, blue pines rising like spires off the mountainside, and blanketing bougainvilleas colouring the hills with Blue, Purple and Red, the forests of Lansdowne are just ideal for those long walks and picnics. Yes, you won't find the ubiquitous cycle rickshaws of Mussoorie or the three wheeled 'autos' of Dharmsala, Savor instead the unlimited pleasure of walking in and around the slopes. WHAT TO SEELike all other hill resorts in north India, Lansdowne too has its fair share of temples and shrines, most of which are devoted to the various forms of the Mother Goddess. While here, you can make a wish at Jwalpa Devi, 47 Km from Lansdowne on the Pauri Kotdwar Road. As the ancient Garhwal legent goes, a demon king's daughter, Sachi wanted to marry Indra, the king of heaven, who was not inclined to tie the nupital knot with the besotted girl. Sachi prayed to her her favourite diety, Jwalpa Devi. Moved by the girl's heart-felt prayers, th goddess granted her wish. Since then, Garhwalis say a wish made here is often granted, which often means crowds of boon-seekers throng the shrine during the Ashtami in April to October. The locally important Durga Devi temple (24 Kms from Lansdowne) lies on the right bank of the Khoh River, and the temple itself is really 4 Km inside a cave. Deep inside is a Shiva Linga and locals whisper that wishes made here are bound to be granted. The Tarkeshwar Mahadev (30 Kms) with its special Shiva Linga, is dedicated to the God of Kedar Khand. This temple is one of the oldest Sidhpeeths in India and is nestled in a thick forest of deodar, blue pine and oaks. Water pools around the temple lend an aura of mystic charm to the place. Tarkeshwar is on the road heading back to Kotdwar. Another well known landmark is the Kanwa Ashram, and so beautiful is this idyllic hamlet, just 14 Kms from Kotdwar, that it doesn't evenneed an on-so colourful history to tempt a visitor. This is the place where, as the legend goes, Sage Vishwamitra meditated for years, which even rattled Indra. So, the crafty lord deftly sent a bewitching Menaka, to entrance the sage, who couldn't resist the temptation. So was born Shakuntala, who later on fell in love with Dushyanth, and to them was born King Bharat, after whom the nation is named. Overlooking this valley, quiet flows the river Malini, where Shakuntala lost her engagement ring, making Dushyant forget her. This silver stream is so clear that you can see the pebbles from your bus window. GETTING THEREThe best way to reach is to take the Mussorie Express, which leaves Old Delhi at 10:45 PM to arrive at Kotdwar at 07"20 AM. One can hire a cab from Kotdwar or share a cab or take a bus for around Rs. 25 per person. Else, one can drive up to Dehradun via road, which is 150 Kms from Delhi, and drive further up for another 150 Kms. Else drive upto Meerut and then take the State Highway to Kotdwar via Bijnor. The route becomes most stunning as soon as you leave Kotdwar right upto Lansdowne. ACCOMODATIONThere are a few private hotels and lodges in addition to GMVN Tourist Bunglows. Besides this, there is PWD Inspection Bunglows, Army Welfare Board Rest House and Uttaranchal Forest Department Base Camp, where you can stay with prior arrangement. But the most popular among them is the 'Fairy Dale Hotel', run by a local gentleman. Even if you ask for the moon he will tell you, "I will try and get it for you".

K.S.RAWAT
**TEAM PAURI GARHWAL GROUP**
NEW DELHI
Pauri, Chamoli, Tehri, Garhwal, Kumaon, Uttaranchal, Uttarakhand, Jobs, Naukri, India, Sarkari Naukri, Government Jobs

4TH FAMILY GET-TOGETHER OF “PG GROUP MEMBERS” held at Garhwal Bhavan On -25/11/2007!!

4TH FAMILY GET-TOGETHER OF “PG GROUP MEMBERS” held at Garhwal Bhavan On -25/11/2007
Minutes of the 4th “Family Get-Together”
Pauri Garhwal Group well known as PG Group!!
Three Cheers For The Grand Success Of The Family Get-Together Held at Garhwal Bhawan, New Delhi on 25/11/2007
à Apni Bhasha … Apna Log ß
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FIRST OF ALL,
We would like to thank everybody in the Group for their support for organizing this mega event.

Pauri Garhwal Group was started on 28th October, 2004 & the very first meet was held at Delhi Haatt on 26th December, 2004. In just three & half year’s time, we have organized 4 family get-togethers of our members and their families, which were a great success with the help of all group members. It was really encouraging to see participation from all the members of the group & credit must go to the families of the group members, who came forward & have attended the meet with full enthusiasm.

The get-together began with the welcome words to our Chief Guests, all members & their families by the presenter/anchor. There were more than 200 Uttarakhandis present for the get-together. The family get-together began at around 11:15a.m.
Trustees of the Group have given brief introduction of the group and its main aims & objectives.
After the brief introduction of the group, it was time for the cultural Programme.
It was good to see the participation of females also equally in all the activities.
In between the cultural Programme, the group had also made arrangements for snacks & tea, which every body appreciated.

Here, we would like to inform all our members that we are here for doing something for our people and development of our State and upliftment of our needy people in any manner. We have several projects in our mind and in the coming months/years; you will see that PGG Team is the Team, which can take any task and with the help/support of the members can do wonders.

BIG THANKS TO OUR ESTEEMED MEMBERS AND OUR
RESPECTED OLDIES WHO ARE WITH US FOR GIVING SUGGESTIONS/GUIDANCE FOR OUR FUTURE ENDAVOURS.

Kindly note that Photos/CDs will be available shortly and will be posted/uploaded in the Group/Group’s website.
K.S.RAWAT
**TEAM PAURI GARHWAL GROUP**
NEW DELHI
Pauri, Chamoli, Tehri, Garhwal, Kumaon, Uttaranchal, Uttarakhand, Jobs, Naukri, India, Sarkari Naukri, Government Jobs

Thanks to PGG Team !!! Uttaranchal, Uttarakhand..!!!!

Hi all,


I really thanks and appreciate the PGG team for organisining such a nice family get together.

I enjoyed a lot, specially tea break .

I wish them all the best for their future projects.

Regards,Sudhir Pundir
Uttarakhand, Uttaranchal, Pauri, Chamoli, Tehri, Naukri, Jobs, Sarkari Naukri, Government Jobs.

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गढ़वाली (Uttarakhand) महिलाएं - विकास के प्रतीक -Pauri Garhwal Group

आप सभी उत्तरांचल वासियों को करण बीर सिंह रावत का नमस्कार!

जैसे कि आप सभी उत्तराखंड के लोगों को पता ही हैं कि गढ़वाल मे महिलाएं कितनी मेहनत करती हैं। महिलाएं उत्तराखंड Uttarakhand के विकास मे सबसे ज्यादा योगदान दे रही हैं।

पौडी गढ़वाल ग्रुप, जो कि एक पंजीकृत ग्रुप हैं, उत्तराखंड के लोगों और अपनी तरफ से पूरी तरह से सहायता प्रदान करने कि कोशिश कर रहा हैं। पौडी गढ़वाल ग्रुप कि ४००० से ज्यादा सदस्य अपनी अपनी तरफ से हर तरह से प्रयास कर रहे हैं उत्तराखंड कि प्रगति के लिए।

पौडी गढ़वाल ग्रुप, हर साल उत्तराखंड मे Awareness-cum-sponsorship camp, का आयोजन करते हैं। जिसमे स्कूल के बचौं को रोज होने वाली बातों के बारे मे जागरूक किया जता है और साथ साथ हर स्कूल मे १०-१२ छात्रों को स्पांसर भी किया जाता है।

अभी तक पौडी गढ़वाल ग्रुप ने पुर्यादांग स्कूल ओर ग़ैर सैन स्कूल मे जागरूकता कैंप लगाए। और दोनों स्कूलों मे २२ छात्रों को स्पांसर किया।

पौडी गढ़वाल ग्रुप, अपने कल्चर को बढावा देने के लिए हर साल नयी दिल्ही मे कल्चरल प्रोग्रॅम का आयोजन भी कर्ता है जहाँ उत्तराखंड के ३०० से भी ज्यादा लोग जमा होते हैं।

पौडी गढ़वाल ग्रुप, उन लोगों कि संस्था हैं जो नौकरी करतें हैं और अपनी देव भूमि से दूर रहते हैं। पौडी गढ़वाल ग्रुप का हर एक मेंबर अपनी तरफ से कोश्सिश कर्ता है अपने लोगों कि मदद करने का।

यही है .... पौडी गढ़वाल ग्रुप.........

अपनी भाषा .... अपना लोग॥

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करण बीर सिंह रावत
नयी देल्ही
K.S.RAWAT
NEW DELHI
PAURI GARHWAL UTTARANCHAL UTTARAKHAND CHAMOLI KUMAON ALMORA NAINITAL HARIDWAR INDIA

पौडी गढ़वाल ग्रुप का पारिवारिक मिलान - गढ़वाल भवन, नयी देल्ही - २५/11/२००७

पौडी गढ़वाल ग्रुप, अपनी भाषा ... अपना लोग॥!!

आप सभी पौडी गढ़वाल ग्रुप के सदस्यों से निवेदन है कि आप अपने परिवार के साथ २५/११/२००७ को गढ़वाल भवन मे अपने परिवार के साथ जरूर आयें। वहां पर उत्तरांचल कि एक झलक आपके सामने प्रस्तुत कि जायेगी। अपने और अपनी परिवार के साथ अपने लोगों से मिलें। यही है पौडी गढ़वाल ग्रुप ...अपनी भाषा ...अपने लोग। http://groups.yahoo.com/group/paurigarhwalhttp://www.paurigarhwal.com/http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PauriGarhwal/surveys?id=1921474जानकारी प्राप्त करने के लिए सम्पर्क करें:करण बीर सिंह रावत - ९८१८००७०७९सुभाष पोख्रियल - ९८११७०९८८२राजेंदर प्रसाद चमोली -९३५०९२९५६७ राजीव नैथानी - ९८१०९६७४९३चंद्रकांता पाण्डेय - ९८९१०८७७७७सुनीता कठेत - ९८११५६२९६२ पौडी गढ़वाल टीम

Report on Gairsain Social Awareness Camp-cum-Sponsorship Programme -21st July, 2007, Chamoli Garhwal

Report on Gairsain Social Awareness Camp-cum-Sponsorship Programme -21st July, 2007, Chamoli Garhwal
“Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained.”
Who are we (The Pauri Garhwal Group)
We are a small drop in the ocean. Each member of the PG Group contributes as a drop of the ocean in all our actions and initiatives. Our objective is to empower our community, people, and state by all means. We are the first online yahoogroup which is registered as Non Profit Social Organisation with Registrar, New Delhi. Our Aims are as follows: -
• To provide a platform to all Uttarakhandis to interact with each other online where they can share their views, thoughts and help in executing various good initiatives towards the empowerment & upliftment of People, and Community of Uttarakhand. • To help the Less Privileged Children based on their talent till they become self- supporting individuals. • To help Shunned Families to live a better life during old days. • To help people with dire straits to meet the expenses for Medical Treatments. • To help in the development of Uttarakhandi Culture. • Last but not the least; give back to society by all means. ProjectGairsainIntroduction As part of the annual activity of PG Group, Project Gairsain was identified for social awareness camp cum sponsorship programme. The roots of this initiative were sown in year 2006, when PG Group launched its first ever social awareness camp in Puryadaang Inter College in Pauri Garhwal. The camp was the first learning for the PG Group and had a great success. Based on the learning of Puryadaang, we were all set for executing our second Awareness Camp in Gairsain, Chamoli Garhwal. A team of volunteers was identified who joined the Task Force of the Project Gairsain for making the entire initiative successful. Funds were also generated through members and other people of Uttarakhand for “Scholarship Programme”.
Project Summary
Gairsain Project Task Force Team comprising 10 members (8 Males + 2 Females) was all set for executing the Project. The team departed from Delhi on 19th night in a Tempo Traveller. Two members of the Task Force were to join from Mumbai directly in the Gairsain.
On 20th July morning, the team took first halt at foothills of Nanital District (i.e. Ramnagar) where the team spent some time in freshening up and then again started up the journey. The next immediate destination of the Task Group was “Maasi Village” where Shri Ram Swaroop Masiwal had made the prior arrangements for task force members for taking rest including meal arrangements. Prior reaching Maasi, we took another halt at Chaunliya Inter College, Almora where we met with Shri Bala Dutt Sharma (uncle of Kaliash Dhoundiyal) and discussed on various topics & initiatives related to education. Somewhere at 11:30 a.m., Task force Team arrived at Maasi where it was welcomed by Shri Masiwal. The first thing the team did was to pay a visit to Temple and then most of the members preferred to take a bath in the adjacent river. The entire team then visited at Shri Masiwal’s home. We all had lunch there and then we took a short nap before we started our journey for Gairsain. Soon the weather changed and we all got a big relief from the burning sky. We had not expected such a change in weather as temperature dipped unexpectedly. Finally, we reached Gairsain, where Principal of the school, Shri D S Panwar ji had already made arrangements for welcoming us.
The programme in school was to start at 8 a.m. on 21st July, 07. The Task Force team of PG Group was on time though school administration took some time in making logistics arrangements due to rain because of which the programme delayed and started at 9:20 a.m.
Session Details
1. The programme began with the introductory speech of Shri B L Verma (from Gairsain Inter College) who introduced the PG Team with the students. Shri Verma later requested the Principal of school, Shri D S Panwar, to share his thoughts with the students and also talk about the PG Group Initiatives. 2. After the speech of Principal, K. S. Rawat talked about the PG Group in detail. 3. Next Session on “Education & Motivation” was taken by Rajiv Naithani. This session last for an hour and few minutes. Rajiv shared his experiences with the students and tried to motivate them. 4. During the sessions, students were encouraged to come on the stage to share their career goals and each student who shared the same in the forum was awarded with a small souvenir by the PG Team. 5. Shri J S Bisht who joined the task force team from Mumbai also addressed the students and shared valuable information. 6. After all the sessions, the identified needy students for scholarship programme were segregated based on their standards and were directed to respective blocked rooms identified for a written exam. 7. Parallely, Career Counselling sessions were oragnised for students in class 10, 11 & 12 where they were told about various career options available to them under each stream after 10th & 12th . 8. Before closing the camp, Principal of Inter College was presented with a memorable souvenir by the PG Task Group Team.
IdentifiedStudentsforScholarshipProgramme
1. Suraj Singh 7th standard 2. Rajender Prasad 7th standard 3. Akbar Ali 7th standard 4. Vijay Singh 8th standard 5. Neeraj Singh Negi 8th standard 6. Devesh Chandra 9th standard 7. Neeraj Prakash 9th standard 8. Maimuna 12th standard 9. Sunita Kotwal 12th standard 10. Anita Rawat 12th standard
Other than the school fees, PG Group has sponsored below mentioned heads under the scholarship programme –
a. Tuition Fees b. Books c. Stationery Items d. 2 set of Uniform to each employee
FeedbackfromthePrincipal/School
The entire camp was appreciated well by the Principal and the School Faculty. At the closure of the camp, Principal shared his overall feedback which was very positive about the camp.
Principal also extended sincere thanks to Project Gairsain Task Force Team for holding the valuable sessions for motivating and encouraging the students in the School.
FeedbackfromtheStudents
School children were also very happy and they appreciated the entire initiative of PG Group. Students told us that such an awareness camp never ever happened in their school before and each task force member helped them to shape their career and they were highly influenced with the thought process of the task force team members. They also took note of the contact details of PG Group so that for any assistance or guidance they can contact the PG Team.
They also requested the PG Task Force Team to visit once again for the similar camp.
FeedbackfromtheSchoolPrincipal/Teachers&SchoolChildrenreflectedthattheProgramme/missionwereaGREATSUCCESS.TheyheardalltheteammemberssilentlyandwereveryeagertoknowmorefromthePGGTaskTeam. List of Members who Joined the Task Group
S. N. Name of the Participant Information/ Experience imparted on 1. Smt J S Bisht Education / Careers guidance / Health / Information & Communication/ Social evils / Self-employment/ Environmental Awareness/ Natural Calamities, Government Schemes & RTI & other welfare schemes for poor & SC/ST 2. Ms. A. Sharma 3. Subhash Pokhriyal 4. Deepak Kala 5. R P Chamoli 6. K S Rawat 7. Rajiv Naithani 8. Shri J S Bisht 9. Kailash Dhoundiyal 10. Subhash Kandpal
ThankYouNote
PG Team extends the “Thank You” note to all such members, people and Institutions who helped the PG Team with their financial and moral support, without which the initiative could have not been successful.
PG Team would like to share the name of all such members below –
1. Sh Sanjay Kukshal 2. Smt Richa Pant 3. Smt Chanderkanta Pandey 4. Sh Rajiv Naithani 5. Sh Deepak Dhyani 6. Sh Atul Nauriyal 7. Smt Sunita Kathait 8. Sh Subhash Kandpal 9. Sh Deepak Rana 10. Sh Gautam Rawat 11. Dr Ravi Joshi 12. Sh Divakar Uniyal 13. Sh Jagdish Sajwan 14. Sh Surendra Singh Bisht 15. Sh Bharat Bhushan Lekhawar 16. Sh Anil Gaur 17. Sh Ashwani Thapliyal – Contributed Rs. 10k for the scholarship programme. 18. Sh Umesh Thapliyal 19. Sh Ashok Suyal – Contributed Rs. 25K for the scholarship programme 20. Smt Poonam Rawat 21. Nidhi Bahuguna 22. Savita Sati 23. Nutan Pokhriyal
We also extend our special thanks to one of the business friend of Shri Subhash Pokhriyal who donated Rs. 5K to PG Team for meeting with the logistics expenses like Gift, Souvenir and Banner expenses for the Camp.
We would also like to extend our sincere thanks to the volunteers of the Task Force Team who joined the Project Gairsain and organized the camp.
OurFindings……at GIC Gairsain,Chamoli
1. Even the school & place is very famous, students were totally unaware and ignorant of happenings around them. 2. The students were totally unaware of their future career. 3. The cultural, social and religious systems restrict women’s education, economic independence, and political and social participation. 4. Women are still accustomed to subordination. Male dominance is seen & is very common. 5. Almost all are unaware of governmental welfare programs that are designed for them. Even not a single student was aware of RTI. PGG Task team has given them tips for all the schemes/acts. 6. Students & people of the region are still unaware of the concept of self-help programs. 7. Many of the adults abuse alcohol and drugs adversely affecting their economic condition and health. Transportation,Boarding&Lodging..byPGGTeam..!! The expenses arising on account of transportation, boarding, lodging and any other misc. expenses during the trip were borne by the individual members of the Task Force of Project Gairsain who participated in the Camp voluntarily. Per head cost worked out to be Rs. 1850/-for the trip.
FeedbackSeeking..!!
The intent of sharing this report of the Project Gairsain with all the members of PG Group is to seek individual feedback on the efforts being put in by the PG Group for completing the Gairsain Project successfully.
Please feel free to post your comments. Your response in this regard is highly appreciated. Thanks.
Best Wishes,
Team Pauri Garhwal Group! http://www.paurigarhwal.com/ http://www.paurigarhwal.org/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/paurigarhwal
**********K.S.RAWAT**********

NEW DELHI**********UTTARANCHAL************UTTARAKHAND

पौडी गढ़वाल ग्रुप का पारिवारिक मिलान - गढ़वाल भवन, नयी देल्ही - २५/९/२००७

पौडी गढ़वाल ग्रुप, अपनी भाषा ... अपना लोग॥!!

आप सभी पौडी गढ़वाल ग्रुप के सदस्यों से निवेदन है कि आप अपने परिवार के साथ २५/११/२००७ को गढ़वाल भवन मे अपने परिवार के साथ जरूर आयें। वहां पर उत्तरांचल कि एक झलक आपके सामने प्रस्तुत कि जायेगी। अपने और अपनी परिवार के साथ अपने लोगों से मिलें।


यही है पौडी गढ़वाल ग्रुप ...अपनी भाषा ...अपने लोग।

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पौडी गढ़वाल टीम

PG Group family get-together is being held on 25th Nov, 2007, at Garhwal Bhawan, New Delhi.

पौडी गढ़वाल ग्रुप, नयी देल्ही
[उत्तराखंड, उत्तरांचल, पौडी गढ़वाल, चमोली, टेहरी, कुमाओं, अल्मोरा, नैनीताल, हल्द्वानी, कोटद्वार, हरिद्वार, देहरादून, देव प्रयाग, ग़ैर सैन]

Namaskar Uttaranchal....!!

Aaap sabhi thai pata hi cha ki PG Group har saal ek apna membarooon ku family get-together kardu Garhwal Bhawan, Nayee Delhi Ma... Pichli Saal kam se kam 300 log hamara get-together ma saamil hwe chchai aur tabhi sab logonu buali ki har saal family get-together hoonu chaindu....

Agar aap sab log PG Group ka kaam se khush chaoun aur chaanda chaoun ki hum sab unnati karon aur sab ek saath chalon ta ye saaal 25 November 2007 khunai Garhwal Bhawan ma apni family ka dagad jarooon aaineee. Agar aaap bhi apni family ka dagad ye family get-together ma saamil hoonu chandoun ta taal ek link cha ve par click karo aur batawa ki tum aur tumari family Garhwal Bhawan ma jaroor samil hoona chaoun.

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Aaap Sabhi Logon ku Dhanyabaad...jwaoun ku wajah se PG Groupa n bahut kuch kaam karni aur karna ki koshish karna chchan.

PGG Team॥/ New Delhi..!!!

Minutes of the Pauri Garhwal Group Meet held at Garhwal Bhawan on 16/Sep/2007!!

Pauri Garhwal Group, Uttaranchal Uttarakhand

पौडी गढ़वाल ग्रुप उत्तरांचल उत्तराखंड

Dear Members,

Yesterday we had a successful meeting at Garhwal Bhawan, New Delh, where the following topics were covered:

Review of Gairsain Project

Members have been informed about the sponsorship exercise being carried out at Gairsain Inter College, where 10 students have been sponsored by the PG Group for the current academic year.

One of our representative is visiting Gairsain in the last week of Sep 07 and personally hand over the sponsorship amount to the students/their guardians, in the presence of school Principal/respective authority.

Group members have shown their satisfaction in our Gairsain project.

Review of Puryadaang Project

PG Group has again re-sponsored 6 students of Puryadaang Inter College, (out of 9 students of last year as 3 of them have passed out 12th std), for the current academic year, based on their performance.

Sponsorship amount has already been distributed to the successful studnets, in presence of school Principal. We are thankful to respected Sh Kavtiyal Ji, who helped us in distributing the amount, by visiting the school personally.

Members have shown their satisfaction in this project too.

Family get-together

As per the practice, PG Group is organizing a family get-together on 25 November, 2007, at Garhwal Bhawan, Panchkuian Road, New Delhi. Complete details will follow shortly.

Resignation of Office bearers

Two of our Board Members, Sh Deepak Dhyani and Sh Deepak Chaudhary have sent their resignations due to some personal reasons, which has been accepted by the Management.

Further, we are glad to inform that two new faces have been inducted in the PG Board, which are:

a) Sh Subhash Kandpal
b) Sh Raju Khatri

It has also been pointed out noticed that couple of Board Members are not interested in PG group's activities. We request those members to either fulfill their responsibilities or give chance to other aspirants who are willing to work for the benefit of our own people.

With best wishes,
Team - PG Group
New देल्ही

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PGG Next Delhi Meet Scheduled for 16th Sept'07 at Garhwal Bhawan!!

पौडी गढ़वाल उत्तराखंड उत्तरांचल

As of now, we have received confirmation from 25 members। Those who would like to join us at the Garhwal Bhawan are requested to please be there at 10:30 AM (Sharp)।

DATE : 16/9/2007
TIME : 10:30 AM to 12:00 PM
VENUE : Garhwal Bhawan, Punchkuyan Road, Opp. Videocon Tower Builidng, New Delhi-110055.
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Those who are not familier with the venue can contact the following Team Members for checking the route and other details:

K.S.RAWAT - 09818007079
SUBHASH POKHRIYAL - 09811709882
RAJIV NAITHANI - 09810967493

Thanks & Best Regards,

K.S.RAWAT / NEW DELHI

----- Original Message -----
From: PG Group!!
To: PauriGarhwal@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2007 5:08 PM
Subject: [PGG : Delhi Meet - 16/Sep] PGG Next Delhi Meet Scheduled for 16th Sept'07 at Garhwal Bhawan!!
Dear Members (Delhi/NCR),
Following members have already sent their confirmation for attending the next meet, scheduled for 16th September, 2007 at Garhwal Bhawan, Punchkuyan Road, Near Karol Bagh, New Delhi. If other members, who are residing in Delhi/NCR, wants to join them in the meeting, please send your confirmation at the earliest: What you have to do is to click on the following link, which will take you to the POLL:
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FUNDS FOR UTTARAKHAND UNDER RGGVY

FUNDS FOR UTTARAKHAND UNDER RGGVY

RAJYA SABHA In Uttarakhand, out of total 15,761 revenue villages, 15199 (96.4%) are electrified. Balance 562 villages are to be electrified by grid (357) and non-grid (171). Out of 11.85 lakhs rural households, 6.87 lakhs rural households are electrified. Out of balance 4.98 lakhs unelectrified households, Uttarakhand Government intends to cover 3.57 lakhs rural household under RGGVY. Ministry of Power has already sanctioned projects for all the 13 districts of Uttarakhand with an outlay of Rs.643.89 crore. The State has reported that works have been carried out in 968 un-electrified and 2332 electrified villages as also release of 38424 rural household connections including 37,016 BPL household connections as on 24th August, 2007. Uttarakhand has so far availed Rs.355.61 crore under RGGVY. The State has reported that the Schedule Tribe villages are also covered in this scheme. However, 171 villages which are far away from grid line and are situated in forest area are meant to be electrified by non-conventional energy sources. Ministry of Power as also Rural Electrification Corporation have been regularly conducting the review meeting and impressing upon the State Govt./state power utility for timely attainment of the sanctioned targets in the State. This information was given by the Union Power Minister Shri Sushilkumar Shinde in a written reply to a question in the Rajya Sabha. PRA:NC

Report on Gairsain Social Awareness Camp-cum-Sponsorship Programme -21st July, 2007, Chamoli Garhwal, Uttaranchal

Report on Gairsain Social Awareness Camp-cum-Sponsorship Programme -21st July, 2007, Chamoli Garhwal, Uttaranchal
Dear Members,It is heartening to note that "Project Gairsain" proved to be very successful and credit for that goes to all the active PGG members.After a long vacation to my native place today morning I have come back to Delhi and writing to you all about the "Puryadaang Project" completed by PGG Team in July 2006. During my last 10-15 days stay, I have met the school students & have taken their progress report from the School Principal. School Students were very keen to know when PGG Team will put up similar camp in their school.For your kind information we have already obtained progress reports of 6 students out of 9 students sponsored by the PG Group in the year 2006. We have called a meeting of PG Group Trustees who will take the final decision on sponsoring the students for this academic year. Very soon we will be publishing the names of the students whom PGG Team has selected for this year sponsorship.Also, I am enclosing herewith appreciation letter received from the ‘Gairsain” School Principal & letters written by the “Gairsain” School Principal to the various government authorities about the PG Group Camp held in their School on 21st July, 2007. Pls check the attachments.Some members have raised their concerned about the further commitments made to the Puryadaang School & I would like to tell them that we are also working people and as and when we get time we try to do our best and the results you all have already seen. As you all know PGG Team was busy in Gairsain Project and could not get the feedback/progress report from the Puryadaang School on time. I request those members to please come forward and take part in the activities of the PG Group and then only you will realize that we are just like you but have something in our mind for the betterment of our people/state.I hope that the members would take the message in good spirit and try to encourage the team while participating in the group.Thanks & Regards,K.S.RAWAT

Outcome-cum-Tour Report - Puryagang Awareness Camp held on 29th July 2006...by PauriGarhwalGroup..!!

First Step towards our aim…….Awareness Programme..! !


To create awareness, promote acceptance and integration and instill self confidence for benefit of school children and peoples in rural area of Uttaranchal about health, education, career, protection of environment, their rights and safeguards along with a view to addressing their grievances.



Project Completed : One day Awareness Camp held at Puryadaang Inter College, Puryadaang, Patty – Maniyarsyun, Block – Kaljikhal, Pauri Garhwal (Uttaranchal) on 29th July 2006.


Pauri Garhwal Group (Regd.) has kicked off a series of programmes in the State of Uttaranchal, with the objective of creating awareness among school children & villagers about health, education, career, protection of environment, their rights and safeguards along with a view to addressing their grievances. AWARENESS CAMPS ARE TO BE ORGANIZED IN THE LOCALITIES / VILLAGES, WHICH COULD BE VERY EFFECTIVE CONSIDERATION THAT THE TARGET COMMUNITY NORMALLY LIVES IN A COMPACT AREA.

The first such awareness programme was held on 29th July 2006 at Puryadaang Inter College, Patty – Maniyarsyun, Block – Kaljikhal, Pauri Garhwal. The following members of PG Group had participated in the awareness camp & imparted their knowledge/experienc e with the School Children/Teachers & Villagers:

S.
N.
Name of the Participant
Email
Information/ Experience imparted on
1.
Shri Anoop Chauhan
anoop.chauhan@ gmail.com
Education/ Careers/Health/ Information & Communication/ Social evils / Self-employment/ Environmental Awareness/ Natural Calamities, Government Schemes & RTI
2.
Shri Atul Nauriyal
atul.nauriyal@ st.com
3.
Shri Deepak Dhyani,
deepakdhyani@ yahoo.com
4.
Shri Deepak Kala
deepak_kala123@ yahoo.co. in
5.
Shri Deepak Chaudhary
kotdwara137@ yahoo.co. in
6.
Shri K.S. Rawat
sooni_ksr00@ hotmail.com
7.
Shri R.P. Chamoli
r.p.chamoli@ gmail.com
8.
Shri Rajiv Naithani
rajivnaithani@ yahoo.com
9.
Shri Subhash Pokhriyal
pokhriyal_subhash@ yahoo.co. in
10.
Shri Suman Sardwal
suman_sardwal@ yahoo.com
PLANNED VISIT FROM “”NEW DELHI TO PURYADANG SCHOOL, PAURI GARHWAL””

DELHI

The visit was planned in advance and pick up points were informed to the each member of the PG Group Team, who were part of this unique awareness programme. We had booked one Traveler Bus & it started from Garhwal Bhawan at about 10:30 PM to our Puryadaang Journey. After picking each member of the Team from different locations, the bus crossed Delhi Border at 11:45 PM. The bus reached at the Kotdwara Main Station at 4:30 AM.

KOTDWARA

In Kotdwara, Group members have interacted with the local people and have also distributed/ circulated printed pamphlets written about PG Group’s aims & objectives, enable them to know the main aims and objectives of the group & about its activities.

WHAT HAPPENED NEXT IN KOTDWARA

We are really thankful to Mr RP Chamoli, who just forgot to carry the group’s official banners from his New Delhi residence. It was very difficult to print a banner at Kotdwar itself as market opens only after 8:30 AM.

We were discussing this issue with each other and suddenly we all requested Mr. Subhash Pokhriyal to arrange / bring one peace of white cloth and after that one chupa rustam appeared from our team have asked for a marker pen. We all were wondering what he is going to do. You want to know his name…..he is Anoop Chauhan…a new designer/artist of PG Group!, who designed a beautiful banner for this awareness camp …aur wo bhi….in the wee hours of 29th July 2006, at Kotdwar itself.

WHAT HAPPENED BETWEEN KOTDWARA AND PURYADAANG SCHOOL

Group members boarded the bus and during their journey to Puryadaang School they have distributed pamphlets to the people enroute (Dugadda, Gumkhal, Satpuli, Banghat etc) between Kotdwara and Puryadaang. People were asking us for more pamphlets & were eager to know about PG Group.

When we reached at the Puryadaang School gate, Shri Hemant Naithani, School Teacher, welcomed our Team. Mr. Naithani also acted as a nodal officer for organizing the awareness camp in their School. After that a meeting was organized by Mr. Naithani with the school principal, Shri A.S. Bhandari. Shri Bhandari has informed us about the problems being faced by the students and about the achievements of the students as well as college during the past years. He thanked PG Group and visiting Team members for choosing his school for this awareness camp / mission.

COME TO THE POINT….PGG AWARENESS CAMP..!!

School children, their parents & school teachers started welcoming the PG Team and made seating arrangements for the team members. The programme was started by Mr. Hemant Naithani by giving brief introduction of the PG Group members & their efforts towards spreading awareness amongst our younger generation & helping poor students. He also appreciated our group’s activities specially undertaken for upliftment of Uttaranchali Community. On behalf of school, he also thanked to the PG Team for choosing their school for conducting such kind of activities in their school.

Then came PG Group’s anchor, Shri Suman Sardwal and he introduced each one of us to the School faculty & students. He also informed the present group of students / villagers about the 1 year achievements of the PG Group.

Around 250+ students & their parents were present and school staff has also attended the programme.

Environment was so good and we started giving speeches in a cordial environment. We have broadly outlined the directions in which our efforts would be focused.

v The programme started with an interactive session with the students. We have asked each and every student about their aim, what they want to become, after completing their school education. Most of the students do not know that what they will do after their school education. Initially students were hesitating to reply our queries as well as asking their question. Later on, they feel relaxed and understand what we asked from him. Most of the students want to join Army and Police as a soldier. We had convinced them that if they will do some extra work they will certainly get big career opportunities. We had also told them what is better for their career and where they can try for better career. Simultaneously, we had asked from students to write their aim/dream in a piece of paper. On the basis of their feedback, a statement has been prepared for sending them career guidelines (Statement Attached).

v We had also given an overview of computer education to all students. Although there is a computer in a school, however Laptop was shown to the students during the interaction session.

v We had also highlighted issues of natural calamities such as Earthquake, Landslide, Cloud burst etc. How they came and how we prevent and what measures to be taken during the natural calamities.

v Thereafter we had interact with students and parents on various general issues such as coordination, social affairs, organic farming, village unity, consumer awareness, environment protection, plantation, women education, right to information act, awareness on dying culture etc.

PGG Team have also given some useful / informative books to the School for keeping in the School Library so that students can read them.

Feedback from the School & School children reflected that the programme / mission was a great success. They heard all the team members silently and eagerly. They eagerly wanted to know which area is better for them and how they can achieve them.

Summing up the programmes, the Principal had expressed their satisfaction with the performance of students. He also stressed the need for organize such camp in future also. He also appreciated the activities of Pauri Garhwal Group in the school and hoped that such pace would continue to be maintained by all concerned i.e. Pauri Garhwal Group, School Authorities, Students and their parents.

At the end, gifts were distributed to all students as well as to the teachers. A memento of Pauri Garhwal Group was also presented to the Principal.

SEPARATE SESSION ON CAREER GUIDENCE & COUNSELLING

Thereafter, a separate interactive session was held with students of class 11th & 12th. Members have given an idea of various courses, which can be done after their completing their schooling. Experts from various fields expose senior students to a variety of careers. Counseling for class X students facilities better subject choices for Class XI. It helps students to increase their awareness of available careers and to make informed career choices and also to plan for careers that interest them. The response from the students was very good. We find them very enthusiastic. Students were eagerly asking questions about their career from our team members. Feedback form was also collected from students for their future/career. On the basis of feedback, we will provide various papers on career guidance to students in due course.


Our program was to complete by 2:30 PM but the students have asked us to give them more information on careers guidance and it was completed only by 5:00 PM.


At the same time we have conducted a 1-to-1 meeting with students and their parents/guardians and sponsored all the students except one Km. Hina, who could not stay back in spite of our informing her regularly.

Five students, who are good in studies, have been awarded with Tuition Fee, Dress/Shoe/Sweater, Stationery and books. Four students have been awarded with tuition fee only as we do not find them as per our expectations but still we have given them a chance to prove better. The detailed break-up is given as under:


Sl.
No.
Name of Student
Class
Sponsor Amount
Annual Tuition Fee
Dress/
Shoe/
Sweater
Stationery
Books
Total
1
Shanu
6th
150
700
350
*
1200
2
Vandana
7th
150
700
350
*
1200
3
Virender Singh
8th
150
700
350
*
1200
4
Preeti
11th
650
700
500
2000
3850
5
Parmila
12th
950
700
500
2000
4150
6
Mohini
7th
150



150
7
Tejpal Singh
9th
600



600
8
Manmohan Singh
12th
950



950
9
Jaideep
12th
950



950






Total
14250
* Books provided by the Government free of cost.

MAIN FINDINGS:

1. Students are totally unaware and ignorant of happenings around them.
2. Students are also totally unaware of their future career. Even they do not know about what they do after their school education.
3. They also do not know which subjects are useful for them and to whom they have to approach for their carrier.
4. The cultural, social and religious systems restrict women's education, economic independence, and political and social participation.
5. Male dominance is very common. Women are accustomed to subordination.
6. Education of girls is given little importance.
7. Women are not organized.
8. They are unaware of governmental welfare programs that are designed for them. Even they are unaware of Right to Information Act.
9. They are unaware of the concept of self-help programs.
10. Many of the adults abuse alcohol and drugs adversely affecting their economic condition and health.

RECOMMENDATIONS/ ACTIONS

We are in the process of sending money orders for a particular amount in the name of student only and are confident that our hard earned money will definitely give us better results. We are also in the process of preparing various papers on career guidance, which will be sent to the students shortly.


MONITORING ON OUTCOME

As this is our first step towards our aim and objective and we are in a process of learning. However, we are sure that we are going in a right direction and believe that the result of the school should be far-far better than the last year. We have been assured by the principal/teacher that the quarterly/half- yearly performance of these students will be known to us regularly. We have also been assured by the Principal/teacher that the sponsored books will be kept in Library, when the sponsored students pass out from their class. Thereafter, the same books will be provided to another needy student.
Apart from the above, a team of four members will be constituted shortly, who will look after the performance of the area/school as well as sponsored students. The team will be in contact with the local people regularly, listen to their problem and give them a solution with the active support of all members of Pauri Garhwal Group.
The monthly performance of the project will be sent to the Group members continuously so that Group members can give their valuable suggestion/inputs for further betterment of the rural people.

FINANCIAL IMPLICATIONS

Head
Financial Implication
Source of funds
Gifts to Students/School
Sponsorship Programme
------------ --------- -------
Total
------------ --------- -------
Rs. 4783/-
Rs.14250/-
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Rs.19033/-
------------ ---
Donations received from some prestigious members + Annual Membership fees of Rs.100/- received from few members.
Transportation, Boarding and Lodging
The expenditure towards boarding/lodging and other misc. expenditure were borne by the individual member themselves.


FUTURE STRATEGY

Blood Donation Camp

A blood donation camp will soon be conducted soon in NCR.

Family Get together programme

We are planning to organize a family get together sometime in October 2006 in New Delhi.

Next Awareness Camp

Next Awareness camp will be planned in a school in Chamoli or Pauri District (depending upon response received from Chamoli School & Pauri School) during next financial year i.e. 2007-08, as that time result/outcome of our mission will be coming out in the form of result of the Puryadaang Inter College (date will be finalized later).

Creation of Crisis Group

A Crisis Group will be set up shortly for the purpose of immediately relief operation will be conducted during the time of natural calamities in Uttaranchal.

LIGHTER MOMENTS…..

After completion of the project, what happened next……please check beautiful pics of the members, who were enjoying every moment of their life as they were very happy that the project has been successfully completed. [Other beautiful photographs will be display in Group’s website http://www.paurigar hwal.com shortly]
We hope, our Group members will recognize the effort put in by each member of PG Group family for completing this task. Please feel free to post your comments. Hope you have a good time here! Your response in this regard is highly appreciated.

Kind Regards,

K.S.RAWAT

Team Pauri Garhwal Group
http://www.paurigar hwal.com
http://www.paurigar hwal.org
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On behalf of PauriGarhwal Group-- Open Letter to the Government of Uttaranchal!!!

Hon’ able Chief Minister,

We humbly offer to those politicians of good will, who can put away partisan differences to work towards a better Uttaranchal and of course, a better India.

Democracy & People's Empowerment

Of all the goals of the Uttaranchal, the most significant, but most neglected, required the re-invigoration of the instruments of people’s governance and the vesting of ultimate sovereignty in the people themselves. The movement of Uttaranchal made history by representing a genuine people’s movement, where politicians had no place but to listen to the people. Transcending electoral politics that had ripped the social fabric and traditional harmony of the hills, Uttaranchalis strove for unity – between Garhwal and Kumaon, between the different castes and tribes, between Paharis and recent migrants, and between the different religious communities. This difficult but noble endeavor now stands on a knife’s edge, as politics as usual rears its ugly head once more in the void and confusion left by a fragmented and disoriented movement. Uttaranchal cannot afford to go down that path again, and any government must govern for all Uttaranchalis, and especially for those it barely represents through its representatives. Democratic governance can also be bolstered significantly by centering administrative and cultural activities in the hills, at Gairsain, equidistant from Garhwal and Kumaon. This may not necessarily entail relocating the entire bureaucracy to Gairsain, but at least holding a yearly open-air assembly (maha Sabha) of an empowered panchayat assembly. This would help maintain a proper perspective on the needs and hardships of hill life, while ensuring a greater measure of accountability from government officials. Within the confines of politics as usual however, politicians can still make a clear break from past practices by holding periodic "town hall" meetings as in other democracies. Politicians should as a rule answer to their constituency and meet with them regularly for representative democracy to function properly. However, direct participatory democracy and involvement of the public in economic planning and decision-making should be encouraged either through the panchayat system, or by convening constituent assemblies in every district.

Women's Emancipation

Women-friendly policies must be instituted including leadership development to prepare women to hold at least 33% of all assembly and panchayat leadership positions as well as enacting liquor prohibition, regulation, and rehabilitation for men. The shackles of household duties, illiteracy, and conservative family relations must be broken for the harder working half of Uttaranchali’s population to enjoy the liberty they have earned through their blood, sweat, and tears. Meanwhile, health awareness programmes for women living in the hills may be pursued. These policies cannot wait – they ought to be enacted immediately so that women take their rightful place as leaders in the new Uttaranchalis.


Civil Rights

The Uttaranchal has suffered grievously from repression, and cannot allow any new administrative structure to practice the same suppression of civil liberties and disrespect of human rights. All residents of Uttaranchal must enjoy the full spectrum of civil rights without fear of discrimination, police brutality, or harassment by the authorities. The rights of women, minorities, dalits, and the poor are especially vulnerable, and the law must be fashioned to protect and serve them.



Culture

Cultural awareness in Uttaranchal will necessitate fostering the Garhwali and Kumaoni languages, and local dialects reflecting the diversity of the people of Uttaranchal. In school curricula, folk heroes including Rajmata Karnavati, Sridev Suman, Chander Singh Garhwali, and Gaura Devi can be upheld as models of a great tradition of patriotism and activism. Both the cultural and agricultural heritage of the region can be promoted in the form of dance, song, cuisine, and preservation of Uttaranchal’ s significant biodiversity.

Education

However, cultural renewal may only take place in a functioning school system that teaches children the basics on how to survive and thrive in a rapidly changing society. Colleges need serious restructuring, as they barely function with the private tuitions increasingly filling the void of actual instruction. More specialized educational institutions such as technical or vocational schools suited to the region’s unique nature can be chartered, beyond the mad rush for the IT panacea that can only provide so much employment for so many people. High school curricula could also be adapted for practical learning and less rote memorization, while providing students internship opportunities with various NGOs, government agencies, companies, and service organizations. This endeavor would additionally help meet the needs of pupils in the hills where hands-on knowledge and skills are in high demand.

Health

Similarly, establishing or sanctioning existing medical colleges to train health care workers is one initiative that can bring about large scale change combining both the education and health care sectors in a far reaching partnership. Doctors, nurses, and even specialists can be trained in large numbers in return for service in remote areas over a specified period of 3 to 5 years. Not only would this generate employment opportunities for Uttaranchali youth and instill in them a sense of service, but it would also provide advanced educational opportunities to students who could not afford high tuition fees otherwise. For their term of service, arrangements could be made to either buy or rent pre-existing households in selected villages for conversion to clinics, dispensaries, and emergency care centers. This would nest these facilities in communities themselves at low cost to the state government. The health ministry need only facilitate the purchase or lease of abandoned property, and provide supplies and stipends to the medical staff.

Jal, Jungle, Jameen

Water and forest rights remain at the core of daily needs in villages across Uttarakhand, reflected in the struggle for Uttarakhand representing also a struggle for local control over local natural resources. As such, a single simple panchayat system with guaranteed fair and equal representation from all segments of society, and informed by local NGOs and women’s organizations, could look after the water, forest, and land resources of Uttarakhand. At the same time, household dependency on fuel and fodder needs to be alleviated by innovative technologies to lessen pressures on forests and cut down on foraging activities that consume most of women’s workdays in many areas. Various NGOs have been experimenting with heating and small power generation devices, and these small-scale efforts ought to be seriously mooted and applied statewide. The traditional water mills of the region, currently in a state of disrepair, can also be revived to generate electricity for household needs. Land rights, one of the most highly contested issues in India since time immemorial, has taken on renewed urgency in face of rapid urbanization of Uttaranchal’ s hills and valleys. Article 371 or a variant thereof must be imposed throughout the state to preserve landholdings for resident and non-resident Uttarakhandis with patrimony in the hills. The land mafia moved quickly in the months proceeding and following official declaration of statehood, and their speculation has driven prices beyond the reach of common people. The rapid development has also gobbled up enormous tracts of good agricultural and forested lands in Valley, and the state government will need to intervene to arrest this sprawl before the concrete jungle entangles all the terai and hills.

Environment

Many policies regarding the environment have been enacted through popular pressure and public interest litigation, but enforcement has been feeble. As most vividly demonstrated by the poaching incidents in Rajaji and Corbett National Parks, the government, judiciary, and police approach to environmental protection needs to be bolstered to ensure the rule of law and safety of protected animals and parks. Moreover, the administration ought to periodically review the usefulness and impact of measures designed to combat environmental degradation and ascertain their effectiveness. Indeed, throughout Uttaranchal, large-scale tree felling, over harvesting of medicinal plants, construction of multistoried buildings in sensitive areas, encroachment on reserved forests, limestone quarrying, and other illegal activities continue to challenge the very legitimacy of government agencies who appear unable to enforce bans or limits on these unsustainable practices. Even government-sanctioned projects have neglected basic environmental standards as witnessed by the poor record of rehabilitating surrounding hillsides after road excavation and construction. All this points to the need for the government to support local efforts to preserve the environment as well as to reduce corruption and the power of contractors and mafia that have the most to gain from a lax enforcement policy. The nexus between the administration and the criminal underworld has been rumored for so many years that any new government will have to take a resolute stand against these relations and enact stringent conflict-of-interest laws for politicians and bureaucrats alike.

Pollution

Plastic bags that are fast becoming the major menace to the environment in urban areas must be heavily regulated or banned outright. Incineration as a means of disposal must also be reined in due to the severe health hazards posed by carcinogenic and deformity-inducing dioxins that burning plastics release. Moreover, vehicular emissions and traffic congestion in the urban centers of Uttarakhand needs to be eased. Air pollution has reached the point of causing respiratory ailments in a substantial portion of the population, and must be reduced in keeping with constitutional guarantees of the right to a clean environment.

Development

Development, the battle cry of the Uttarakhand Andolan, cannot mean the indiscriminate exploitation of natural resources, the abrogation of people’s rights, or following the tired-old model of development that has plundered the hills for 150 years. In the case of dams, future projects should be cleared by a panel constituted along the lines of the World Commission on Dams. This landmark body has succeeded in bringing governments, lenders, utility companies, environmentalists, and displaced people together to ensure responsible development that respects people’s rights, ensures proper rehabilitation, and honestly appraises the economic worth and social and environmental impact of big dams. This will be needed to prevent future costly and unnecessary controversies such as the one that plagued Tehri whose residents are still waiting for adequate compensation. The experience of the Tehri dam itself cannot be repeated, as governments throughout the years acted in bad faith and with forceful duplicity during various negotiations, paying scant attention to the human suffering and destruction wrought by dam construction on the surrounding mountainsides. Besides hydroelectric power generation, the most often touted engine of economic growth for Uttaranchal, tourism, threatens to undermine and degrade the very basis of this sector – the natural and pristine beauty of the hills – unless clear and enforceable guidelines are established to accommodate the fragility of the Himalayan ecosystem. Indeed, tourism can have a reduced footprint, if adequate care is taken along pilgrimage and trekking routes to reduce and properly dispose of garbage, while encouraging conservation and frugality in the "abode of gods". Truly, Uttaranchal must evolve a new model of development that empowers local communities economically while respecting their natural environment. The government must reverse the quickening drift of most Uttaranchal ’s towns towards becoming virtual replicas of their counterparts in the plains. Not only does this contribute to a commercial monoculture where towns lose their distinct charm, but is rapidly eroding the surrounding countryside’s life-sustaining capacity and polluting it beyond recovery. Just as Indians cannot afford to imitate the American lifestyle – with its over-consumption, wastefulness, and social fragmentation – Uttaranchal likewise must make a social, cultural, and economic break from the hegemonic consumer ethos engulfing it and all parts of this globalizing world. As the Dev_Bhumi, it must preserve its traditions that are not only found in the temples and shrines, but in every forest grove, stream, meadow, field, and mountaintop. Most importantly, these traditions must be fostered in the hearts of all Uttarakhandis, so that civic values, good neighborliness, modesty, and hospitality again become the models by which to live and progress.


K.S.RAWAT / NEW DELHI
Team PauriGarhwal Group!

www.paurigarhwal.com
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Struggle For Development – Pauri Garhwal, Uttaranchal

Over the years, all governments in centre have never done any development work in Uttaranchal. Some local groups never lost sight of their duty towards the toiling people of the area and their democratic movements. They always stood for the hill people’s democratic rights. People of Uttaranchal has stood for the people’s rights over basic resources like land, forests, water and power, which form the basis for the state’s planned development.
Now, we should forcefully put before the people of Uttaranchal the essence of the development process, which is deliberately being sabotaged by the State Government in Uttaranchal. We should fight a battle for more autonomy to the state, devolution of powers, affirmative action from the central /state government in favour of the state’s people and acceptance of the principle of democratic decentralization.
Having fought for decades for their uplift, the people of the area naturally looked to the government with great expectations. But their experience has been one of disappointment and betrayal. All the governments in Uttaranchal have proved totally insensitive to the people’s aspirations and problems. The region that was known for peace and tranquility has now become a hotbed of lawlessness and crime. Atrocities on minorities and Dalits are on the rise. The government itself seems to have fallen in the grip of politicians, mafia and bureaucrats. A total collapse of the public distribution system, of the state transport system, the crisis and massive rural and urban unemployment, and similar other problems hardly attract the government’s attention.
We should demand change in centre-state relations and other constitutional rights, women’s demands for establishment of family courts and a commission for women, workers’ rights, the demands of Anganwadi women, minimum wage for plantation workers, food for work, unemployment and industrialization, power and irrigation facilities at subsidized rates to the farmers of the state, reopening of public sector units, which can generate employment to Uttaranchali people.
A state with a relatively higher level of literacy, with a tradition of massive participation of women in democratic movements, with a history of anti-feudal and forest-related movements can surely forge a strong movement.

K.S.RAWAT / NEW DELHI

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K.S.RAWAT - Moderator of PauriGarhwalGroup..!!

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UTTARANCHAL / UTTARAKHAND STATE!**Garhwal’s unparalleled beauty, its mountains, dense forests, rich cultural heritage, famous pilgrimage spiritual center, clean air, pollution free, peaceful law order situation, all combine to make it a tourist destination of par excellence. This group is meant for all Uttaranchalis, who wants to share their experience, thoughts and of course wants to meet their fellow Uttaranchalis. We have a passion from our childhood days to do some thing for our region so that all Uttaranchalis can be a part of the upgraded society. Now it's time to convert the things into realities. We all love our people, our family, friends, beloved but we rarely tell them of the love we have for them. Let today be the day to express your feelings for people of our region. AIM OF THE GROUPPauri Garhwal is a Group formed with the intention of bringing together people from Uttaranchal region and our main aim is to encourage all Uttaranchalis to do everything based on their personal and professional capacities through the activities of the Pauri Garhwal Group. OBJECTIVE OF THE GROUPOur objective is to advance the understanding of development of our region, leading to improved life and work outcomes for individuals and Uttaranchal community. Pauri Garhwal Group encourages you to make your voice heard by showing unity. To know more - visit the Group's website http://www.paurigarhwal.comIMPORTANT : Please also add your details in the database so that group members can contact you and most important is that they must know about you. Also, please view; files, photos, links, polls etc for more about this Group! Happy Viewing !!! Team PauriGarhwal Group!

Pauri Garhwal Group's 3rd Family get-together held at Garhwal Bhawan, New Delhi on 5th November, 2006..!!

PAURI GARHWAL GROUP
MINUTES OF THE FAMILY MEET
HELD ON 5TH NOVEMBER, 2006 (SUNDAY)
AT GARHWAL BHAWAN, NEW DELHI

Pauri Garhwal Group (PGG) has celebrated its 2nd anniversary and family get-to-gather at New Delhi on 5th November, 2006 at Garhwal Bhawan. All the Hon’ble Trustees and Board members have assembled at 9:45 am to welcome their guests of the event and special invitees at Garhwal Bhawan. It was a cool day and people have started coming at the venue after 9:30 AM.

Almost 300+ people of Uttaranchali community have assembled to grace the occasion. The overwhelming response received from Uttaranchali people on this occasion inspired us to organize such activities time & again. In just 2 years of PG Group's existance, people have realized that with the support of the members, we can do wonders & their overwhelming response has shown that they trust / believe in PG Group's AIMS & OBJECTIVS.

The programme started with the highlights of group’s aims, objectives and achievements. Mr Suman Sardwal, Board member of the PG Group, highlighted the achievements of the group, achieved just two years and also reproduce a brief note on the Puryadaang project and progress report sent by the Principal on the same.

Our chief guests, Mr. Bachhi Singh Rawat, Mr Birender Juyal, special invitees Mr. Vikram Singh Adhikari, Dr Dinesh Prasad Semwal & Mr Bhupender Singh Aswal (who came from Canada) graced this auspicious occasion. The sweet and smart children of PGG family honor them with garlands. PGG team has welcomed the chief guests at 10:30 am & after that it was the time, people were waiting for...Yup..are are right...it was our Culture presented by PG Group's members & PG Group sponsored "Jhankar Kala Manch". We are really thankful to Mr Aswal (Rs.1101/-) who has donated to the PG Group. Moreover, Mr Balbir Singh Rawat (Rs.500/-) & Mr Atul Nauriyal (Rs.500/-) also donated respective amounts for the get-together. All the hon'ble Trustees & Board Members have also contributed Rs.500/- each for this get-together. A very special thanks to Sh Sanjay Kukshal Ji, who has contributed much-much more.

The Chief Guest enlightens the lamp and than the programme started in its full swing.

Bhakti Vandana by the PGG Members!!!
Uttaranchali folk dance by “Jhankar Kala Manch” & “PGG Members”
Garhwali Jokes/Poetry by Garhwali Poet Mr. Brijender Sharma

People enjoyed the Uttaranchali "Dhol Damau". Large numbers of Uttaranchali people could not stop themselves and started dancing on their thump of the Dhol Damau.

The event become more and more interested when the special Uttaranchali quiz programme started, which was especially designed for children and women. The winners were awarded with the attractive gifts.

PGG Team has presented a momento to the Honorable Chief Guests & Special Invitees. The Chief Guest appreciated the achievement and activities of the PGG for the upliftment of Uttaranchal and assured to extend full support to PGG in fulfilling their aim/goals.

The fantastic Uttaranchali foods have also been a special attraction, which people have enjoyed very much.

We have already flashed the still photographs of the get together in group’s mail, which we hope everybody likes it. If you have not been able to view the pictures, please click on the following link:

http://in.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/sbdidelhi/album?.dir=/3702scd&.src=ph&.tok=phRaaxFBD8staEPz

Warm Regards,

K.S.RAWAT
PGG Team!
New Delhi