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Important Days Related To Uttarakhand - उत्तराखण्ड से संबंधित महत्वपूर्ण दिवस

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एम.एस. मेहता /M S Mehta 9910532720:
late-1960s
Mainly Punjabi trespassers seize much of the best Terai land. The dispossession of the native Pahari inhabitants (Buksha and Tharu tribals) and other Hindi-speaking residents exacerbates communal tensions. Various U.P. governments, influenced by big landowning interests, legalize land seizures.

Women organize to fight alcohol consumption in the hills, a distressing byproduct of development and the worsening economic situation.

1969
P.C. Joshi and other Kumaoni intellectuals form the Kumaon Morcha group to agitate for local autonomy. Bitter political infighting with the Garhwal-based Uttaranchal Parishad deflates the movement.

1970
Due to erosion and declining ground cover, the Alaknanda floods, killing hundreds of people.

1973-1980
The Chipko movement struggles for the forest rights of Uttarakhandi people. Marches, demonstrations, and spontaneous actions in defense of the forests spread throughout the hills. Gandhian in nature, the movement's activists fan out across the hills to organize peasants against the commercial interests undermining their livelihoods.

1973
Non-violent forest rights demonstrations are held in Uttar Kashi and Gopeshwar.

1974
Gaura Devi leads village women to save Reni forest from contractors.

एम.एस. मेहता /M S Mehta 9910532720:
1976
Student activists form the left-oriented Uttarakhand Sangarsh Vahini to fight the liquor and timber mafias that benefit from their collusion with the police.

1977
Chipko spreads to Kumaon.

1977-1979
Several attempts to fell Uttarakhand forests are thwarted by mass action on the part of local villagers. Once again, women play a pivotal role in the struggle to save the trees.

1979
Activists form the Uttarakhand Kranti Dal to contest elections and pursue statehood for the impoverished region

एम.एस. मेहता /M S Mehta 9910532720:
1980
The Indian government bans the felling of trees above 1000 meters. However, the Forest Protection Act has the unintended consequence of strengthening the timber mafia while also depriving people of their forest rights.

1981
Improving relations between India and China allows for the reopening of the pilgrimage route to Mt. Kailash and Lake Mansarovar (through Pitharogarh district and to Tibet through Lipu Lekh pass).

1980s
Anti-alcohol agitation begins anew and sharpens social tensions between men and women in the hills. Deforestation continues, though tempered by government regulations. Mining interests and dam projects threaten the Himalayan ecosystem.

1989
Several left-leaning organizations assemble to form the Uttarakhand Sanyukta Sangarsh Samiti (USSS) to campaign for autonomy.

एम.एस. मेहता /M S Mehta 9910532720:
1991
A devastating earthquake rocks Uttar Kashi, killing over 2,000 people. The slowness of relief operations and reconstruction upsets many hill residents, already accustom to the prolonged neglect afforded the region by state and federal governments.

1994
Despite measures in the state legislature towards granting separate status for Uttarakhand, the new backward-caste dominated government of Uttar Pradesh extends caste reservations into the hills. These reservations, though established to increase opportunity and social justice for low-caste people, meets with fierce resistance in Uttarakhand. Uttarakhandis see the measures as an attempt to colonize the hills with people from the plains, as low-caste Hindus make up a tiny fraction of the hill districts' population. Demonstrations are fired upon, leaving dozens dead. On October 2, the birthday of Mahatma Gandhi, buses carrying protesters to the capital are stopped in the town of Muzaffarnagar. More violence ensues including the molestation and rape of dozens of Uttarakhand women by state police.

 

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एम.एस. मेहता /M S Mehta 9910532720:
1995
The cover-up of the 1994 incidents unravels under further investigation. The Uttar Pradesh government refuses to acknowledge responsibility. Uttarakhandis hold monthly protest rallies in remembrance of the movement's martyrs.

Massive forest fires in May devastate Uttarakhand

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