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.
Devprayag is a town and a nagar panchayat,near New Tehri city in Tehri Garhwal District in the state of Uttarakhand,India,and is the final one of the Panch Prayag of Alaknanda River where Alaknanda meets the Bhagirathi river and both rivers thereafter flow on as the Ganges river or Ganga.
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.
Hemvati Nandan Bahuguna Garhwal University (HNBGU) (formerly known as Garhwal University) is a Central University,established in 1973,located in Srinagar in the Pauri Garhwal district of Uttarakhand in Northern India. The university is named after Hemvati Nandan Bahuguna,former Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh. The university is residential cum affiliating with jurisdiction over Garhwal region. It is on the banks of the river Alaknanda in the mid-Himalayas. University intake is through examination including Joint Entrance Examination –Main (JEE Main) for School of Engineering &Technology,CAT and MAT. The university is A Graded with CGPA of 3.11 by the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC).
Tehri Garhwal Lok Sabha constituency is one of the five Lok Sabha (parliamentary) constituencies in Uttarakhand. This constituency came into existence in 1957,following the delimitation of Lok Sabha constituencies. It comprises the districts of Dehradun (part),Tehri Garhwal (part) and Uttarakashi.
Garhwal Lok Sabha constituency is one of the five Lok Sabha (parliamentary) constituencies in Uttarakhand. This constituency came into existence in 1957,following the delimitation of Lok Sabha constituencies. It comprises five districts namely Chamoli,Nainital (part),Pauri Garhwal,Rudraprayag and Tehri Garhwal (part).
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.
24-Rishikesh Legislative Assembly constituency is one of the seventy electoral Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly constituencies of Uttarakhand state in India.
Veer Chandra Singh Garhwali Uttarakhand University of Horticulture &Forestry,formerly Uttarakhand University of Horticulture and Forestry,is a state agricultural university located in North Indian state of Uttarakhand. The University has two campuses,one is in Bharsar town of Pauri Garhwal district and other is in Ranichauri town of Tehri Garhwal district.
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.
Mantri Prasad Naithani is an Educational and Minister of Water Resources in Uttarakhand,India. He was former Cabinet Minister in the cabinet of N. D. Tiwari in the year 2002. Again he was voted in the Devprayag Legislative election and deputed for the Cabinet Minister in Uttarakhand. The address of his Legislative area is Village Sankro (Chauraas),Vikaskhand Kirtinagar,Tehri Garhwal.
Raghunathji Temple in Devprayag,a pilgrimage town in Tehri Garhwal district in Himalayas in the North Indian state of Uttarakhand,is dedicated to Vishnu. It is located 73 km from Rishikesh on the Rishikesh–Badrinath highway. Constructed in the Deula style,the temple is glorified in the Nalayira Divya Prabandham,the early medieval Tamil canon of the Alvar saints from the 6th–9th centuries CE. It is one of the 108 Divyadesam dedicated to Vishnu,who is worshipped as Raghunathji (Rama) and his consort Lakshmi as Sita.
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Uttarakhand:
Subodh Uniyal is an Indian politician and member of the Bharatiya Janata Party currently serving as the Forest Minister of Uttarakhand. He was elected as a member of the 2017 Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly and again in the 2022 Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly from the Narendra Nagar constituency in Tehri Garhwal district.
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. Later he rejoined the BJP.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.
