Regional

Uttarakhand Nanda Devi Raj Jat Yatra piles garbage on alpine pastures

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Reports appearing in a vernacular daily painted a grim picture of the sad state in which the Bedini ‘bugyal’ has been left after the yatra. “The fresh grass that appears after the snow melts in the region has been trampled to oblivion and one can see nothing but mud, dirt and garbage where earlier there was a carpet of green. Trenches had been dug round the tents to prevent rain water from seeping into them, and they have neither been filled up nor leveled leaving the entire alpine pasture in a sad shape”, the report reads.

Uttarakhand home to best and worst schools

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In fact if what has appeared in a section of the press is to be believed, the conditions of the government schools are pitiable and there are even allegations that most of the attendance is purely because of the mid-day meals. In quite a few cases even the mid-day meals do not lure the children to school and there is large scale absenteeism.