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	India - Uttarakhand
		The term Uttarakhand, meaning "northern tract" or "higher tract," refers to the Himalayan districts of Uttar Pradesh, between the state of Himachal Pradesh to the west and Nepal to the east.
		The Uttarakhand movement is motivated by regional factors along with economic factors stemming from its particular geography.
		In 1995 the agitation was renewed, mostly peacefully, under the leadership of the Uttarakhand Samyukta Sangharsh Samiti (Uttarakhand United Struggle Association), a coalition headed by the Uttarakhand Kranti Dal.
	countrystudies.us /india/77.htm (681 words)

	EcoStrategy
		The Uttarakhand people are one such developing society that has not been allowed to reap the fruits of the advancement in technology, especially in the scientific management of its ecosystem.
		The Uttarakhand organisation must also come forward to vigorously oppose environmentally destructive agricultural and industrial development and give primary effort to protecting native plants and animals in their natural habitat.
		To check this process, the degradation of the Uttarakhand Himalayan ecosystem has to be halted not only for the sake of the local inhabitants but also for the sake of the adjoining plains of northern India where the Himalayan rivers have become flood prone.
	www.uttaranchal.ws /ecostrategy.htm (8471 words)

	TED Case Study (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Chipko movement of the Uttarakhand region in the northwest part of India began as a communal reaction of local villagers to protect their forests from commercial deforestation practices.
		Under colonial rule, the forests of the Uttarakhand, which were divided into two separate systems (Tehri Gharwal state and Kumaun) at the time, were under much restraint and exploitation as commercial interests replaced old growth forest with chir-pine, coffee, and tea plantations, fruit trees, and mass felling.
		Let us not forget that the Uttarakhand people (who were once split into two systems from 1815-1949 into Tehri Gharwal State and Kumaun division) have rooted for their own independence from the state for decades as a result of poor state resource management.
	www.american.edu /projects/mandala/TED/chipko2.htm (2710 words)

	01082k
		Though the population of Uttarakhand is more than the State of Himachal Pradesh, the Assembly seats proposed in the Bill for the Uttaranchal State is less than that of HP.
		Uttarakhand is going to be a very rich State because it has got to many natural resources.
		The creation of Uttarakhand is going to take place because of the aspirations of the people of Uttarakhand and not because of any criteria.
	parliamentofindia.nic.in /lsdeb/ls13/ses4/01082k.htm (8180 words)

	S A N G A T, APRIL 1996
		Uttarakhand was also outside the purview of India's Land Revenue Board and the region given a special status after studies conducted by Ward and Powell.
		It was the women of Uttarakhand who strived to eradicate alcoholism, it was they who publicly disgraced and beat up senior magistrates, and it was they who cracked through the maximum security of our Prime Minister's residence to force him to listen to their pleas for a separate state.
		Nationalism is a matter of pride to the people of Uttarakhand, and politicians who wish to interpret their demand for a separate state as the beginning of a secession movement should learn a bit about the region's history and their spirit of sacrifice for the motherland.
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/sangat/april96.htm (11090 words)

	Gandhi of Uttarakhand
		EVEN as the people of Uttarakhand celebrate victory of their long-drawn struggle, they are missing one person very lovingly.
		A man of principles, he came to be called as Gandhi of Uttarakhand for leading a historical movement for the creation of Uttarakhand state which remained thoroughly nonviolent despite provocation from several quarters.
		Soon after the CPI leader comrade PC Joshi espoused the cause of a separate state for the people of Uttarakhand during early 1950s, Badoni realized that the people in the hills were never given their due.
	www.uttaranchal.ws /gandhi_.htm (1013 words)

	Chipko Movement
		During this period (1815-1947), Uttarakhand was divided into two contiguous but distinct sociopolitical units, the nominally independent chifdom of Tehri Garhwal and the British administered Kumanun Division.
		The protestors, consisting of mostly women and their children, were called on by their leader to form a ban in order to stop the ursuption of trees from the Uttarakhand.
		Uttarakhand has moved away from subsistence- oriented peasant economy to a dependent on outside remittances to live.
	www.american.edu /ted/chipko.htm (3194 words)

	UTTARAKHAND: The political scene in the new state (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Reason was that the people of Uttarakhand were made alienated from their own resources through the UP Reorganisation Bill 2000 in the process of formation of the new state.
		This attitude of the CM towards a very common and popular demand of nearly the entire women population of this hill region clearly shows he is blatantly anti-women and is in total control of the mafia.
		Uttarakhand’s people neither got their long-aspired “Uttarakhand” state nor a capital of their choice, they have only been provided a sign board of ‘Uttaranchal’.
	www.cpiml.org /liberation/year_2001/july/uttara.htm (1248 words)

	Federal Restructuring (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		It was a painfully protracted struggle by the people of Uttarakhand to achieve their democratic demand of a separate state in India.
		And this has put a question mark over not only Uttarakhand issue but also over the long-pending demands for reorganisation of States, which are an important part of the federal agenda in the country.
		Uttarakhand as a separate state cannot be ruled out from the point of view of economic or fiscal viability.
	www.cpiml.org /liberation/year_1996/december/feature.htm (1416 words)

	PRAYAGA: Uttarakhand Newsletter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In Uttarakhand, the outmigration of men, large-scale unemployment, ecological collapse, and their traditional backbreaking life, have all conspired to worsen the lot of women to degrees unimaginable.
		The hills of Uttarakhand live on in the hearts of her sons and daughters, yet the real Himalayas are dying the death of a thousand clear cuts.
		As news of this reached the hills, Uttarakhand exploded, for this, coming on the 125th birthday of Mahatma Gandhi was the most tragic of ironies, as the Indian state showed its brutal face to the most peaceful and loyal of its people.
	www.bostonglobalaction.net /UK/prayaga.html (9810 words)

	" PRAYAGA" -Mtn-Forum On-Line Library Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		November 26: Starting on November 26, a five-day bandh was observed all throughout Uttarakhand in support of retaining both Udham Singh Nagar and Haridwar in any new Uttarakhand state, and also in protest against 26 amendments passed by the UP legislature with the state reorganization bill.
		Organized by the Uttarakhand Sanyukt Sangarsh Samiti, the bandh brought together non-BJP political and apolitical forces, while the Uttaranchal BJP caucus convened a meeting to review the provisions of the 26 amendments their government passed in the fall.
		If Uttarakhand is to be distinct and to retain its Pahari culture, it must become a place of peace for all her people, no matter their politics, religion, caste, or race.
	www.mtnforum.org /resources/library/praya98a.htm (1528 words)

	TRACCE 10 - Rock Art in the Himalayas
		In Uttarakhand the main concentration of rock art is found in the source region of the Suyal, a tributary to river Koshi in Almora district.
		The art of Uttarakhand can be associated with the Megalithic people whose stone-cists are found in the river valleys in abundance.
		Thus the antiquity of the art in Uttarakhand can be assigned to some 3000 years before present.
	www.rupestre.net /tracce/himalay.html (453 words)

	PRAYAGA: Uttarakhand Newsletter #15 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Furthermore, the discord in the Uttarakhand movement has yet to be placed in the greater context of social ills, divisions, and prejudices afflicting hill residents.
		The soil of Uttarakhand has produced armymen ranging from the rank of sepoy to the chief of the staff, which exhibits martial qualities inherited by hill men.
		Part of the impetus for the Uttarakhand movement was resistance by the upper castes to the reservation policies of the Uttar Pradesh government.
	www.bostonglobalaction.net /UK/prayaga-15.html (7045 words)

	The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - Nation
		Even as the MPs and MLAs of the Uttarakhand region are bracing up for this crucial meeting, preparations are under way to grant statehood to Chhattisgarh at midnight on October 31.
		Uttarakhand is raring to wake up to a new dawn when statehood is conferred on it on November 9.
		The capital of Uttarakhand will ultimately be located in the hills — either in the Kumaon or Garhwal region — in keeping with the wishes of the people after a detailed examination of the pros and cons as the required infrastructure is lacking at present.
	www.tribuneindia.com /2000/20001029/nation.htm (4371 words)

	The Indian Express : Top Stories (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		After convulsing over the demand for a separate state for three decades what the hills got was not Uttarakhand but Uttaranchal as the BJP would have it.
		They wished Gairsain, a small hamlet in the centre of the state, would be their new capital but Dehra Dun was the BJP government’s choice.
		While the regional parties, which emerged during the various phases of the movement are raising the unfulfilled demands, the Congress is hoping to gain from the anti-incumbency factor.
	www.indianexpress.com /ie20020212/top8.html (772 words)

	PUCL UP Team Tours Gharwal Region of Uttarakhand
		The PUCL, UP carried the message that the first task of the people of Uttarakhand after its creation should be to exercise their collective 'Human Right to Development' contained in part IX and IX A of the Constitution under which by 73rd and 74th Constitutional Amendments Acts.
		The people raised the issue that the human rights of the people of Uttarakhand can not be achieved unless people have control over their water, land and forest resources, health, education and rural development programmes.
		The first task of people of Uttarakhand after its creation should be to exercise their collective Human Right to Development contained in Part IX and IX A of the Constitution, under which, by 73rd and 74th Constitutional Amendment Acts, institutions of local self governments have been created in rural and urban areas.
	www.pucl.org /reports/UttarPradesh/gharwal.htm (1064 words)

	tribuneindia... Nation
		LUCKNOW, Sept 22 The Uttar Pradesh Reorganisation Bill (1988) envisaging the creation of a separate hill state of Uttarakhand as referred by the President of India was today tabled in the State Assembly for consideration.
		According to the amendment, the members of the State Vidhan Parishad who are bona fide residents of Uttarakhand, would now be members of the interim Vidhan Sabha of the proposed state.
		For any road bridge constructed by the Uttar Pradesh Government in Uttarakhand, the right to collect the road tax would not be vested with the proposed state.
	www.tribuneindia.com /1998/98sep23/nation.htm (2750 words)

	The Chipko movement and women
		The Chipko Movement in the Uttarakhand region of the Himalayas is often treated as a women's movement to protect the forest ecology of the Uttarakhand from the axes of the contractors.
		In fact, the economic and ecological interests of Uttarakhand are so interwoven that it is difficult to promote one without promoting other.
		Initially demonstrations were organized in different parts of Uttarakhand demanding abolition of the contractual system of exploiting the forest-wealth, priority to the local forest-based industries in the dispersal o forest-wealth and association of local voluntary organizations and local people in the management of the forests.
	www.pucl.org /from-archives/Gender/chipko.htm (790 words)

	Introduction to Uttarakhand (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Since men are no longer in the villages, women have paid the price of environmental degradation, lack of basic amenities like water, electricity, road and primary health care.
		We are seeing it all around - in the manner in which the state and its instruments are making promises, the way organisations are secretively devising projects and the near war in collecting relief by the road side.
		We can no longer fool ourselves with political promises, individualistic mega plans and forge the future Uttarakhand state as the one that looks for the "Relief" crop each financial year..
	education.vsnl.com /phalguni/intro.htm (953 words)

	Uttaranchal, Garhwal
		And a pilgrimage does not hold more importance than it does in Garhwal and Kumaon, once known as Uttarakhand, the 'northern territories' of the pre-Vedic era.
		This is the domain of the ascetic Lord Shiva, the destroyer and re-creator; it is a land charged with Shakti, the power and energy of the goddess Parvati, consort of Shiva and daughter of Himavat, Lord of the Mountains.
		At the time that he set out on his reformist mission, Uttarakhand was a medley of mystic cults, naga worship, tantric rites and animistic faith.
	www.travelmasti.com /domestic/uttaranchal/garhwal.htm (1557 words)

	outlookindia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Seventy-six year old Tiwari, who was four times Chief Minister of undivided Uttar Pradesh, was chosen for the top job by Gandhi as she gave "priority to experience" as the newly formed hilly state lacked development.
		To a query whether Gandhi had respected people's sentiments by nominating Tiwari, the PCC President pointed out that while authorising the party president to nominate the CLP leader, the party had not put any conditions to her.
		Addressing the press conference, Azad said that two independents and four members of the Uttarakhand Kranti Dal have also extended their support to the Congress thereby raising its strength to 42 in a house of 70.
	www.outlookindia.com /pti_print.asp?id=43078 (548 words)

	Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		What is true of Uttarakhand, is also more or less true for villages of Dang district of Gujarat.
		Whether this reversal is also seen in Uttarakhand or not, needs to be known.
		There is also a similarity in the reasons for migration in Uttarakhand as well as the Dangs.
	www.epw.org.in /showArticles.php?root=2000&leaf=08&filename=1656&filetype=html (1291 words)

	The Hindu : Protests threatened if Uttarakhand Bill is not passed before May 17
		The long-standing demand for a separate State of Uttarakhand or Uttaranchal could well become a reality if what transpired at the Tuesday meeting chaired by the Prime Minister, Mr Atal Behari Vajpayee, is not diluted by petty games of certain politicians and vested interests.
		The Government hopes to introduce the Uttarakhand Bill in Parliament in the current session but it may not be passed due to paucity of time and could be discussed in the next session.
		The Uttarakhand Sanyukt Sangharsh Samiti (USSS), however, describes the decision to introduce the Uttarakhand Bill at the fag end of the current session as a mere gimmick.
	www.hinduonnet.com /2000/05/14/stories/04142251.htm (510 words)

	Rediff On The NeT: SC pulls up Allahabad HC on Uttarakhand judgment
		The Supreme Court has passed strictures on the Allahabad High Court for issuing sweeping directions with regard to payment of compensation to the victims of police firing and rape during the Uttarakhand agitation.
		The Allahabad high court had issued the directions on a writ petition, filed by the Uttarakhand Sangharsh Samiti, after obtaining a report from the CBI which had been asked to investigate into the alleged incidents of firing and rape.
		The court also made it clear that if any person had not made his or her claim or had not received compensation despite making a claim for it, it would be open to him or her to approach the competent court for compensation in accordance with the law.
	www.rediff.com /news/1999/may/17sc.htm (469 words)

	With our pens, brushes and art (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		This poem, written by the young Garhwali poet and singer Narendra Singh Negi, expresses the struggle of the people belonging to Uttarakhand, a region in the northern part of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, in the Himalayan mountain range.
		For the last six years the festival has been held in memory of the martyrs of the Uttarakhand movement; this year it was dedicated to the revolutionary cultural activist and poet Maheshwar.
		In most of the street theatre, bureaucrats and politicians are the targets of satire, and the audience readily relates to themes of corruption, empty promises and opportunism.
	www.greenleft.org.au /back/1996/237/237p24.htm (1124 words)

	"Hug the Trees!" (Chipko Movement, Nanda Devi, Chandi Prasad Bhatt, Gaura Devi, Gandhi Movement)
		A major source of timber and water power, this was a region of vast natural riches—in contrast to the poverty of the people living there.
		Conditions like those in the Uttarakhand were found throughout the Himalayas, both in India and in neighboring countries.
		Outside control of the Uttarakhand’s resources had led to their irresponsible use and gradual destruction.
	www.markshep.com /nonviolence/GT_Chipko.html (5152 words)

	Uttarakhand - A Dark Hour (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		This writ petition of Uttarakhand Sangharsh samiti came to Court on 7 October 1994, within five days of the incidents to which the Court's attention was drawn, which occurred in the areas of the hills of Uttar Pradesh and concerned the peoples of Kumaun and Garhwal.
		On the first three days of October 1994, while a representative section of the peoples of the hills of Kumaun and Garhwal were, as activists exerting their civil rights they were met with State resistance.
		The hills were fire with an impatient and agitated people after the news of death and molestation of its women spread widely, but slowly.
	www.upportal.com /politics/muzaffar_uttara_dark.asp (2032 words)

	International PARTHENIUM Research - NEWs Group (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		It has taken roots in the entire length and breadth from Kashmir to Kanyakumari including Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka, Bengal, Assam, and the Himalayan region of Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh.
		In the Uttarakhand region at the foothills of Himalaya there is another plant LANTANA that has become divine curse for the hills people of Garhwal and Kumaon.
		The herbicide must be field tested over a period of at least three years and scientifically proved and patented to quality for consideration of the award.
	www.iprng.org /IPRNG-parthenium_news3.htm (199 words)

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