April 2021

UTTARAKHAND   Accord priority to education in district plans, says CM The CM said that facilities like drinking water, toilets, electricity, furniture and other equipment should be provided to all the schools and the campus should be clean and beautiful. He said that the officers should ensure that every student has textbooks and the schools … Read more 07.04.21 Daily UKPSC Current Affairs

UTTARAKHAND   Telemedicine, virtual OPD service launched by U’khand govt     The state government on Wednesday launched the ‘Doctor at your doorstep’ service in order to enable access to doctors’ advice to people living in remote areas.   A communique from the CM’s office said that the objective of the service is to enable … Read more 21.04.21 Daily UKPSC Current Affairs

UTTARAKHAND   Uttarakhand mulls single online learning platform for all colleges   The state higher education department is planning to bring online education on a single platform for colleges. Officials said a project is on the anvil which will help thousands of students enrolled in state government-run degree colleges and universities across the state access … Read more 28.04.21 Daily UKPSC Current Affairs

  UTTARAKHAND   Dehradun RTO plans to digitise 12 lakh files The regional transport office (RTO) of Dehradun is planning to initiate a mega project to digitise all the data of the paper documents stored in its premises. The RTO presently has about 12 lakh files stored in various rooms of its building and as … Read more 09.04.21 Daily UKPSC Current Affairs

UTTARAKHAND   Uttarakhand govt asks defence ministry for choppers to control forest fires in hills   In the wake of rising incidence of wildfires in Uttarakhand, the state government has written to the ministry of defence, citing what has been termed a “worsening situation” of forest fires, to provide two IAF helicopters which would be deployed in the Garhwal and Kumaon region to douse … Read more 08.04.21 Daily UKPSC Current Affairs

UTTARAKHAND   Govt to regularise & beautify slums on Government land, reiterates CM Chief minister Tirath Singh Rawat announced that the government will work for regularisation and beautification of slums established on government land. He said this while speaking at a function held to mark the birth anniversary of BR Ambedkar. Recalling Ambedkar as the … Read more 16.04.21 Daily UKPSC Current Affairs

UTTARAKHAND   Forest fires turn Uttarakhand’s air lethal For days now the forests of Uttarakhand have been on fire, turning the air over the pristine hill state lethal. Levels of black carbon, or soot, have shot up six times while that of ozone has trebled — both going straight from safe levels to dangerously toxic ones within perhaps … Read more 17-18.04.21 Daily UKPSC Current Affairs

UTTARAKHAND Haridwar becomes second city after Varanasi with underground cabling Haridwar has become the second city after Varanasi to have underground power cabling facility. Chief minister Tirath Singh Rawat and Union minister of State for Power, RK Singh virtually inaugurated the underground cabling in the Kumbh Mela area of Haridwar. Rawat said that the state … Read more 01.04.21 Daily UKPSC Current Affairs

UTTARAKHAND   Govt approves budget for Rudrapur Medical College Paving the way for construction of Government Medical College at Rudrapur in Udham Singh Nagar district the government has approved a sum of Rs 336.89 Crore for the college. An amount of Rs 50 Crore has been released as the first instalment for the medical college. … Read more 02.04.21 Daily UKPSC Current Affairs

UTTARAKHAND   Aerial Passenger Ropeway System Between Dehradun and Mussoorie The Union Cabinet has approved the transfer of land from the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) to the Uttarakhand government for the construction of an Aerial Passenger Ropeway System between Dehradun and Mussoorie.   The planned Ropeway is a 5.5-kilometer mono-cable ropeway between Purkul Gaon in … Read more 23.04.21 Daily UKPSC Current Affairs