Dec 2019

UTTARAKHAND   CM seeks Rs 38.99 cr approval under PMKVY 2.0 Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat requested the Union Minister for Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, Mahendra Nath Pandey to approve Rs 38.99 crore for Uttarakhand under the Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana (PMKVY) 2.0. Rawat informed Pandey that the Government of India had set a … Read more 08-09.12.19 Uttarakhand (UKPSC) Daily Current Affairs

UTTARAKHAND   Uttarakhand sees a jump in forest cover by 0.03% The forest cover in Uttarakhand went up by around 0.03% in the last two years, according to a biennial report released by the Forest Survey of India According to the report, titled ‘Indian State of Forests Report (ISFR) 2019’, the forest cover rose to 24,303 square kilometres (sq … Read more 29-30.12.19 Uttarakhand (UKPSC) Daily Current Affairs

UTTARAKHAND   State to have cost-effective Bamboo schools The buildings of the schools in Uttarakhand would now be made up of Bamboo. The State Cabinet in its meeting held on Wednesday gave its nod to the proposal of the Bamboo buildings for the schools in the State. These schools would be constructed by the Bamboo … Read more 18.12.19 Uttarakhand (UKPSC) Daily Current Affairs

UTTARAKHAND   Supplementary Budget for 2019-20 passed by Assembly The Uttarakhand Assembly passed the supplementary budget for the year 2019-20. The parliamentary affairs minister Madan Kaushik sought the permission of the house to give their consent for the bill of supplementary budget. To fulfil its monetary obligations, the Uttarakhand Government had put up supplementary budget … Read more 13.12.19 Uttarakhand (UKPSC) Daily Current Affairs

UTTARAKHAND Forest department to develop country’s first moss garden in Nainital State forest department is planning to develop country’s first moss garden in Lingadhar near Sariyataal nursery in the Nainital range. According to the officials of forest department, the garden will have 21 species of mosses (both natural and transplanted). The other factors due to which Nainital was chosen for the … Read more 01-02.12.19 Uttarakhand (UKPSC) Daily Current Affairs

UTTARAKHAND   Utttarakhand to use drones to survey crocodiles, gharials   Uttarakhand may become the first state in the country to use drones for conducting a census on crocodiles and gharials.   The last census of the two reptile species in the state was conducted around 11 years ago. Then, a manual count was undertaken in which … Read more 31.12.19 Uttarakhand (UKPSC) Daily Current Affairs

UTTARAKHAND   Uttarakhand to get Atal Innovation Academy soon: Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank   Union human resource minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank  announced that Uttarakhand will get an Atal Innovation Academy very soon.   State higher education minister Dhan Singh Rawat had mooted an idea of opening cyber security course whose sub-centre will also be built in either at National Institute of … Read more 22-23.12.19 Uttarakhand (UKPSC) Daily Current Affairs

  UTTARAKHAND   Char Dham Shrine Management Bill tabled The Tourism, Culture and Religious aAfairs Minister Satpal Maharaj tabled ‘The Uttarakhand Char Dham Shrine Management bill-2019’ in the Assembly The Government claims that the bill would be a milestone for rejuvenation of Badrinath, Kedarnath, Gangotri, Yamunotri and other famous temples in the State on the … Read more 12.12.19 Uttarakhand (UKPSC) Daily Current Affairs

UTTARAKHAND   Uttarakhand governmet mulls ban on mobile inside college classrooms Higher education minister Dhan Singh Rawat said that the state government is mulling a ban on the use of mobile phones inside classrooms during classes in all colleges. In order to facilitate this, the government will conduct a poll to ask students whether they … Read more 25.12.19 Uttarakhand (UKPSC) Daily Current Affairs