Uttarakhand General Knowledge

UTTARAKHAND   Uttarakhand DMMC gets Subhash Chandra Bose Aapda Prabandhan Puraskar Disaster Mitigation and Management Centre (DMMC), Uttarakhand, (in the institution category) and Kumar Munnan Singh (individual category) have been selected for the Subhash Chandra Bose Aapda Prabandhan Puraskar 2020. A winning institution receives a certificate and a cash prize of Rs 51 lakh and … Read more 08.01.20 Uttarakhand (UKPSC) Daily Current Affairs

UTTARAKHAND   Sanskrit to replace Urdu at Uttarakhand stations The railway authorities have decided to replace Urdu language on signboards at state platforms with Sanskrit. The signboards which have names of railway stations written in Hindi, English and Urdu will now be written in Hindi, English and Sanskrit. According to railway officials, the decision has been taken … Read more 07.01.20 Uttarakhand (UKPSC) Daily Current Affairs

UTTARAKHAND   U’khand comes up with policy for leasing out agri land   The Uttarakhand government has issued a notification for the policy to lease out agricultural land in the state for a period of 30 years.   Keeping in mind the tough terrain, migration and large expanse of barren land, the state cabinet had earlier approved the amendments … Read more 05-06.01.20 Uttarakhand (UKPSC) Daily Current Affairs

UTTARAKHAND   Government schools in Uttarakhand to be built with wood to minimise damage due to natural disasters: CM   Chief minister Trivendra Singh Rawat announced that all the new government schools in the state will be built of wood and other assorted material. Addressing school students, teachers, and members of SEEDS (the organisation that has partnered … Read more 04.01.20 Uttarakhand (UKPSC) Daily Current Affairs

UTTARAKHAND   Deaths in road accidents dip by over 17% in Uttarakhand in 2019   In some good news pertaining to road safety in the Himalayan state, the numbers of road accidents and related causalities have seen a drop last year as compared to 2018. According to police department data, in 2019, Uttarakhand witnessed 867 fatalities in road accidents, … Read more 03.01.20 Uttarakhand (UKPSC) Daily Current Affairs

UTTARAKHAND Film shooting will open in Uttarakhand For this, the government will develop the infrastructure for shooting films in the state. Filmmakers will be given all the facilities for shooting, so that they do not have to bring actors from outside or resources for shooting. Currently filmmakers have to bring huge resources, equipment, actors and … Read more 26-27.01.20 Uttarakhand (UKPSC) Daily Current Affairs

UTTARAKHAND Pre-histroic murals in Almora Pre-historic murals have been claimed to have been found in Pattharkhola village of Almora. the murals painted in a saffron colour corresponded exactly to the murals of Lakhudiyar, a famous prehistoric site near Petsal village of Almora. International Coronavirus- Emergency in China Coronavirus is an umbrella term for viruses that … Read more 25.01.20 Uttarakhand (UKPSC) Daily Current Affairs

UTTARAKHAND   In ramp-up, 75% roads on China border ready India is ramping up its infrastructure development along the border with China. The Border Roads Organisation has constructed 75 percent of the entire length of strategic roads along this border assigned to it, with plans afoot to finish 11 more by this year and nine more by … Read more 02.01.20 Uttarakhand (UKPSC) Daily Current Affairs

UTTARAKHAND Sanskrit to replace Urdu at Uttarakhand stations The railway authorities have decided to replace Urdu language on signboards at state platforms with Sanskrit. The signboards which have names of railway stations written in Hindi, English and Urdu will now be written in Hindi, English and Sanskrit. In 2010, the Uttarakhand government had become the first in the country … Read more 01.01.20 Uttarakhand (UKPSC) Daily Current Affairs