Sunderlal Bahuguna was an Indian environmentalist and Chipko movement leader. The idea of the Chipko movement was suggested by his wife Vimla Bahuguna and him. He fought for the preservation of forests in the Himalayas,first as a member of the Chipko movement in the 1970s,and later spearheaded the anti-Tehri Dam movement from the 1980s to early 2004. He was one of the early environmentalists of India,and later he and others associated with the Chipko movement and started taking up wider environmental issues,such as being opposed to large dams.
Garhwal is one of the two administrative divisions of the Indian state of Uttarakhand. Lying in the Himalayas,it is bounded on the north by Tibet,on the east by Kumaon,on the south by Uttar Pradesh state,and on the northwest by Himachal Pradesh state. It includes the districts of Chamoli,Dehradun,Haridwar,Pauri Garhwal,Rudraprayag,Tehri Garhwal,and Uttarkashi. The people of Garhwal are known as Garhwali and speak the Garhwali language. The administrative center for Garhwal division is the town of Pauri. The Divisional Commissioner is the administrative head of the Division,and is a senior Indian Administrative Service officer. As the administrative head of the division,the Commissioner is overall incharge of the 7 districts in the Garhwal region of Uttarakhand,and is aided in his duties by an additional commissioner and the district magistrates. Sushil Kumar is the divisional commissioner of the Garhwal Division since December 2021.
New Tehri is a city and a municipal board in Tehri Garhwal District in the Indian state of Uttarakhand. It is the administrative headquarters of Tehri Garhwal District. This urban municipality area has 11 wards,from Vidhi Vihar to Vishwakarma Puram.
Gairsain is a town in Chamoli district of the Indian state of Uttarakhand near state's summer capital Bhararisain. A town and Nagar Panchayat,Gairsain is situated at the eastern edge of the vast Dudhatoli mountain range,and is located in Chamoli district almost at the centre of the state,at a distance of approximately 250 kilometres from Dehradun. It is easily accessible from both the Garhwal and the Kumaon divisions,and in a way,acts as the bridge between the two regions. It is being considered as the future Permanent capital of Uttarakhand.
Pauri Garhwal is a district in the Indian state of Uttarakhand. Its headquarters is in the town of Pauri. It is sometimes referred to simply as Garhwal district,though it should not be confused with the larger Garhwal region of which it is only a part of.
Tehri Garhwal is a district in the hill state of Uttarakhand,India. Its administrative headquarters is at New Tehri. The district has a population of 618,931,a 2.35% increase over the previous decade. It is surrounded by Rudraprayag District in the east,Dehradun District in the west,Uttarkashi District in the north,and Pauri Garhwal District in the south. Tehri Garhwal is a part of the Himalayas.
Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna was an Indian National Congress leader and former Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh;he later joined Bharatiya Lok Dal and worked with Charan Singh.
The Garhwali people are an Indian ethnolinguistic group native to the Garhwal,in the Indian state of Uttarakhand,who speak Garhwali,an Indo-Aryan language.
Sri Dev Suman, born Sri Dutt Badoni was an Indian anti-monarchy social activist,freedom fighter and writer from the princely state of Tehri Garhwal in British India. Dev Suman is most renowned for his part in inspiring and leading non-violent Gandhian civil rights movements and eventual campaigns demanding the total abolition of the monarchy of Tehri.
Vijay Bahuguna is an Indian politician who served as the 6th Chief Minister of Uttarakhand. He is the eldest son of Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna,an independence activist and politician,and also a former Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh. Vijay Bahuguna was a member of the 14th and 15th Lok Sabhas of India. He represented the Tehri Garhwal constituency of Uttarakhand and is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party.
Dinesh Dhanai is an Indian politician. He has run as an independent MLA in Tehri (2012-2017) and served as a minister in the last Congress government in Uttarakhand.
The Uttarakhand movement refers to the events of statehood activism within the undivided state of Uttar Pradesh which ultimately resulted in the formation of Uttarakhand,India as a separate state.
Shoorveer Singh Sajwan is an Indian politician from the Indian National Congress,in the state of Uttarakhand. He won three legislative elections in 1985,1993 and 2002. He belongs to village Panchoor which comes under Devprayag legislative Assembly. In 1985 he won his first election from Devprayag legislative assembly and after that he won his second term from Tehri legislative assembly constituency. After Uttarakhand state separated from Uttar Pradesh he won the first election from Rishikesh legislative Assembly in 2002. He is one of the senior leaders in Uttarakhand Congress. In 2017 state election he filed his nomination as independent candidate from Devprayag constituency,but returned to Congress in 2019.
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Uttarakhand:
Ganesh Joshi is an Indian politician and currently,a State Cabinet Minister of Government of Uttarakhand under the Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami. He is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. Joshi is a 4th time member of the Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly from the Mussoorie constituency in Dehradun district.
Diwakar Bhatt is an Indian politician from Uttarakhand and he has served as Central President of regional party Uttarakhand Kranti Dal aka UKD. Bhatt was a member of the Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly from the Devprayag constituency in Tehri Garhwal district. He is one of the founding members of UKD and have played a prominent role in Uttarakhand Statehood Movement.
The Vijay Bahuguna ministry was the Cabinet of Uttarakhand headed by the Chief Minister of Uttarakhand,Vijay Bahuguna from 2012 to 2014.
Dhan Singh Negi is an Indian politician who was a member of the Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly from 2017 to 2022 representing the Tehri constituency in Tehri Garhwal district. Previously affiliated to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP),he switched to the Indian National Congress party (INC) in early 2022. In the 2017 state assembly elections,he defeated Dinesh Dhanai,then Cabinet Minister by a large margin.
Vinod Kandari is an Indian politician and member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. Kandari is a member of the Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly from the Devprayag constituency in the Tehri Garhwal district where he has a residence at Dehradun. He has been MLA for Devprayag consecutively. In the 2017 Assembly election,he defeated his nearest rival Diwakar Bhatt an Independent by a margin of 10,325 votes.
Indramani Badoni also known as the "Gandhi of Uttarakhand," was an Indian educator,politician,environmentalist,folk artist and statehood activist from the present day Indian state of Uttarakhand.
