Haldwani is the largest city of Kumaon. It is also the fourth most populous city in the Indian state of Uttarakhand. Haldwani is said to be the financial capital of Uttarakhand, having the most commercial, economic and industrial activities of the state. Haldwani is located in the Nainital District, and is one of its thirteen Subdivisions. The Haldwani Urban agglomeration has 656,000 people as of 2021, and is the third most populous UA in Uttarakhand, after Dehradun and Haridwar. Being situated in the immediate foothills of Kumaon Himalayas, the Kathgodam neighbourhood of Haldwani is known as the "Gateway to Kumaon".
Udham Singh Nagar is a district of Uttarakhand state in northern India. Rudrapur is the district headquarter. The district consists of nine Tehsils named Bajpur, Gadarpur, Jaspur, Kashipur, Khatima, Kichha, Nanakmatta, Rudrapur, Sitarganj. The district is located in the Terai region, and is part of Kumaon Division. It is bounded on the north by Nainital District, on the northeast by Champawat District, on the east by Nepal, and on the south and west by Bareilly, Rampur, Moradabad, Pilibhit and Bijnor District of Uttar Pradesh state. The district was created on 29 September 1995, by Mayawati government out of Nainital District. It is named for freedom fighter and Indian revolutionary Udham Singh.
Govind Ballabh Pant was an Indian freedom fighter and the first chief minister of Uttar Pradesh. Alongside Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru and Vallabh Bhai Patel, Pant was a key figure in the movement for India's Independence and later a pivotal figure in the Indian Government. He was one of the foremost political leaders of Uttar Pradesh and a key player in the successful movement to establish Hindi as the official language of Indian Union.
Govind Ballabh Pant Institute of Engineering and Technology (GBPIET) is an autonomous institution for higher technical education located in Ghurdauri of Pauri Garhwal district, in the north Indian state of Uttarakhand. College run by the government of Uttarakhand, India. It was created in 1989 and named after the memory of the first Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, statesman and Bharat Ratna recipient Pandit Govind Ballabh Pant.
Nainital district is a district in Kumaon division which is a part of Uttarakhand state in India. The headquarters is at Nainital.
Rudrapur is a city that serves as the headquarters of the Udham Singh Nagar district in the Indian state of Uttarakhand. Located at a distance of about 250 km (160 mi) northeast of New Delhi and 250 km (160 mi) south of Dehradun, Rudrapur is located in the fertile Terai plains in the southern part of Kumaon division over an area of 27.65 km2. With a population of 140,857 according to the 2011 census of India, it is the 5th most populous city of Uttarakhand.
Krishna Chandra Pant was an Indian Member of Parliament for 26 years and was the prime minister's interlocutor on Kashmir. He was a cabinet minister in the Government of India and held several constitutional positions over a period of 37 years. Pant had held the positions of Minister for Defence, Minister of state for Home Affairs, Minister of Steel and Heavy Engineering, Finance, Atomic Energy and Science and Technology. He was the first chairman of the Advisory Board on Energy, chairman of the 10th Finance Commission and the deputy chairman of the Planning Commission of India, the economic planning body of India; his Vision 2020 document was published as India's Development Scenario, Next Decade and Beyond.
Campus School is a co-ed school located in the university campus of Pantnagar district Udham Singh Nagar, previously district Nainital Uttarakhand. It was established in 1970 by the collaboration of Sisters of Notre Dame and Pantnagar University and is currently managed by a committee of management with the Vice Chancellor as Patron. The Notre Dame sisters came to India in 1947 and have since then established several schools in the North. The school, affiliated with the Central Board of Secondary Education, caters mostly to the children of people working in academic institutions in the Govind Ballabh Pant University of Agriculture & Technology. The first batch of High School passed out in 1977 and 10+2 in 1986. Many students of the school have gone on to elite institutions such as IITs, IIMs, NID [National Institute of Design]NITIE( National Institute of Industrial Engineering), IRMA, AIIMS (Delhi), AFMC (Pune), NDA/CDS, JIPMER, Maulana Azad Medical College (MAMC), etc. and have also gone abroad through GRE/TOEFL for higher education. The school yearly conducts book fairs, annual day function, national festival celebrations, birth and death anniversaries of great personalities and much more. The faculty is experienced and most have a PhD and few also have done specialisations in their respective subjects. Few of them are Dr. Prachi Pareek, Dr. Bhuwan Chandra Pathak, Dr. D N Pandey, Dr. Rashmi Verma, Dr. Renu Panwar, Dr. Pradeep Kumar Joshi, Dr. A K Tyagi and others. With Mrs. Shweta S. Budhani along with Mrs. Jaspreet Kaur Arora, Mrs. Puspa Pathak and Mr. Ravindra Kumar Tewari having done their specialisations in Organic chemistry, Hindi and Mathematics respectively. The school is represented in various national and international quiz competitions like Bournvita Quiz Contest and its students have also won many scholarships such as NTSE, Mathematics Olympiad,Gk Olympiad, International English Olympiad etc. Also, there are well-developed science practical labs that is, for physics, chemistry and biology separately, and 2-3 practicals take place weekly. Also for subjects like geography and maths. The school also consists of a well furnished library with more than 12 thousand books. The school has a double storied building and a huge playground. A new Multi-Purpose Hall has been constructed and this was established on 2 October 2014. The alumni of the school are based across the world and doing well professionally and personally. They are strong pillars of the community in their respective regions and contribute constructively to society. The school establishes an environment in which the character and personality of students grows steadily to maturity in all aspects of life, spiritual, moral, social, intellectual and physical.
DDU Gorakhpur University is located in Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh. The University of Gorakhpur is a teaching and residential-cum-affiliating University. It has entered the league of top five state universities of the country by achieving NAAC Grade A++ rank. It has become the first university of the state to get a 3.78 score. It is about two kilometres (1.2 mi). from the downtown to the east and almost walking distance from railway station to the south.
Ila Pant is an Indian politician who was a Member of Parliament in 12th Lok Sabha from Nainital constituency of Uttar Pradesh. She was married to former minister K. C. Pant.
The state of Uttar Pradesh had a small tradition of learning, although it had remained mostly confined to the elite class and the religious establishment.
The College of Agriculture, Pantnagar, India, is a constituent of Govind Ballabh Pant University of Agriculture & Technology, Pantnagar. It was opened on 17 November 1960 when Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of India, inaugurated the university. It has a triple mandate of teaching, research and extension.
G. B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, also known as Pantnagar University, is the first agricultural university of India. It was inaugurated by Jawahar Lal Nehru on 17 November 1960 as the "Uttar Pradesh Agricultural University" (UPAU). Later the name was changed to "Govind Ballabh Pant University of Agriculture and Technology" in 1972 in memory of the first Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, statesman and Bharat Ratna recipient Pandit Govind Ballabh Pant. The University lies in the campus-town of Pantnagar in Kichha Tehseel and in the district of Udham Singh Nagar, Uttarakhand. The university is regarded as the harbinger of the Green Revolution in India.
Pantnagar Airport is a domestic airport serving Pantnagar and its adjoining regions, located in the Udham Singh Nagar district in of Uttarakhand, India. It is operated by the Airports Authority of India. It is the nearest airport to the Kumaon division and is located in the middle of Haldwani and Rudrapur, the two largest cities of Kumaon. It is 26 km from Haldwani and from the Kumaon hill stations of Nainital (65 km), Bhimtal (50 km), Ranikhet (110 km) and Almora (120 km), Bareilly (65 km) and the Jim Corbett National Park (120 km).
College of Technology, Pantnagar also known as COT, Pantnagar or COT, is a college located in Pantnagar, in the state of Uttarakhand, India. It was established under the then Uttar Pradesh Agricultural University and now called Govind Ballabh Pant University of Agriculture & Technology. The College of Technology was established in this university in 1962.
The Nainital Bank Limited (NTB) is a scheduled commercial bank founded in 1922. The bank is a subsidiary of Bank of Baroda which is under the ownership of Ministry of Finance of the Government of India. The bank has expanded to Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand, and has only 170 branches in Rajasthan, Delhi and Haryana.
Ballabh is a given name. Notable people with the name include:
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.
Ashok Kumar is a retired 1989 batch Indian Police Service officer of the Uttarakhand cadre, who served as the 11th Director General of Uttarakhand Police. He was appointed as Vice-Chancellor (VC) of the Sports University of Haryana on 28 February 2024 and served there till 1 March 2027.
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