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Rishikesh
Rishikesh, also spelt as Hrishikesh, is a city near Dehradun in the Indian state Uttarakhand. The northern part of Rishikesh is in the Dehradun district while the southern part is in the Tehri Garhwal district. It is situated on the right bank of the Ganges River and is a pilgrimage town for Hindus, with ancient sages and saints meditating there in search of higher knowledge. There are numerous temples and ashrams built along the banks of the river. It is known as the "''Gateway to the Garhwal Himalayas''" and "''Yoga Capital of the World''". The city has hosted the annual International Yoga Festival on the first week of March since 1999. Rishikesh is a vegetarian-only and alcohol-free city. The Tehri Dam is located away from Rishikesh. Uttarkashi, a popular yoga destination, is uphill on the way to Gangotri Dham, Gangotri. Rishikesh is the starting point for travelling to the four Chota Char Dham pilgrimage places: Badrinath, Kedarnath, Gangotri, and Yamunotri. It is also a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AIIMS Rishikesh
All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Rishikesh (AIIMS Rishikesh) is a medical college and hospital based in Rishikesh, Uttarakhand, India. The institute operates autonomously under the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (India), Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. It is one of the Institutes of National Importance in India. AIIMS Rishikesh is ranked 14th in India by the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) medical ranking for 2024. History While plans for the hospital date to 2004, the center was established in 2012. Hospital , the hospital had 960 beds, 25 functional modular operating theatres, 17 functional super speciality and 18 speciality functional. AIIMS, Rishikesh operates India's first government Air medical services, heli-ambulance. Medical College and Nursing College AIIMS started its MBBS course with 50 students and now has an intake capacity of 125 students per year from year 2020. Nursing College has an intake of 100 students per year. Di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rishikesh Municipal Corporation
The Rishikesh Municipal Corporation is the civic body that governs the city of Rishikesh in Uttarakhand, India. Structure This corporation consists of 40 wards and is headed by a mayor who presides over a deputy mayor and 39 other corporators representing the wards. The mayor is elected directly through a first-past-the-post voting system and the deputy mayor is elected by the corporators from among their numbers. List of mayors Current members Rishikesh Municipal Corporation has a total of 40 members or corporators, who are directly elected after a term of 5 years. The council is led by the Mayor. The latest elections were held in 23 January 2025. The current mayor of Rishikesh is Shambhu Paswan of the Bharatiya Janata Party The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP; , ) is a political party in India and one of the two major List of political parties in India, Indian political parties alongside the Indian National Congress. BJP emerged out from Syama Prasad Mukherjee' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Premchand Aggarwal
Premchand Aggarwal (born 12 April 1960) is an Indian politician and member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. Aggarwal is a member of the Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly from the Rishikesh constituency in Dehradun district where he has a residence. He is originally from Doiwala. He has been MLA for Rishikesh consecutively in three terms since the 2007 Assembly election. In the 2017 Assembly election he defeated his nearest rival Rajpal Singh Kharola of Indian National Congress by the margin of 14,801 votes. From March 2017 till 10 March 2022 he served as Speaker of the Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly as he was elected unopposed by the newly elected members. In 2022 Uttarakhand Assembly election, he has defeated nearest rival INC candidate Jayendra Ramola, thus creating history in Uttarakhand. He is continuous winning candidate for last 4 terms from Rishikesh assembly seat, from same party BJP. Controversies According to Deccan Herald ''Deccan Herald'' is an Indian En ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Muni Ki Reti
Muni Ki Reti is a town and a municipal council in Tehri Garhwal district in the Indian state of Uttarakhand. It lies close to the pilgrimage town of Rishikesh and is known for its ashrams, including the Divine Life Society of Sivananda Saraswati. History Literally meaning "Sand of the sages" ( muni), Muni Ki Reti is traditionally considered the gateway for the Char Dham pilgrimage — Badrinath, Kedarnath, Gangotri, and Yamunotri. It is also known as the place where King Bharata performed penance in the ''Ramayana''. In modern history, 'Kailash Ashram' was established here in 1880 by Dhanraj Giri. It was one of the first large ashrams to be established in Rishikesh. Before that it was mostly as a place for individual seekers or pilgrims to stop over on way to Char Dham temples pilgrimage. Subsequently, Swami Atmananda founded Swargashram in 1908; Sivananda Ashram was established by Swami Sivananda in 1936. Gradually other ashrams came up and soon it became a popular desti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Uttarakhand
Uttarakhand (, ), also known as Uttaranchal ( ; List of renamed places in India, the official name until 2007), is a States and union territories of India, state in North India, northern India. The state is bordered by Himachal Pradesh to the northwest, Tibet to the north, Nepal to the east, Uttar Pradesh to the south and southeast, with a small part touching Haryana in the west. Uttarakhand has a total area of , equal to 1.6% of the total area of India. Dehradun serves as the state capital, with Nainital being the judicial capital. The state is divided into two divisions, Garhwal division, Garhwal and Kumaon division, Kumaon, with a total of List of districts of Uttarakhand, 13 districts. The forest cover in the state is 45.4% of the state's geographical area. The cultivable area is 16% of the total geographical area. The two major rivers of the state, the Ganges and its tributary Yamuna, originate from the Gangotri and Yamunotri glaciers respectively. Ranked 6th among the Top 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parmarth Niketan
Parmarth Niketan is an ashram located in Rishikesh, Uttarakhand, India. Overview Parmarth Niketan is situated in the lap of the lush Himalayas, along the banks of the Ganges. The ashram was founded in 1942 by Pujya Swami Shukdevanandji Maharaj (1901–1965). Since 1986, Pujya Swami Chidanand Saraswatiji Maharaj is the President and Spiritual Head of Parmarth Niketan.H.H.Pujya Swami Chidanand Saraswatiji For the last 25 years, Sadhvi Bhagawati Saraswati lives and teaches at the Parmarth Niketan Ashram. As the largest ashram in with over 1000 rooms, Parmarth Niketan provides a clean, pure and sacred atmosphere as well as abundant, beautiful gardens to thousands of pilgrims, who come fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Cities In Uttarakhand By Population
This is a list of urban agglomerations and cities of Uttarakhand with a population above 100,000, per the 2011 census of India: Urban Agglomeration In the census of India 2011, an Urban Agglomeration has been defined as follows: "An urban agglomeration is a continuous urban spread constituting a town and its adjoining outgrowths, or two or more physically contiguous towns together with or without outgrowths of such towns. An Urban Agglomeration must consist of at least a statutory town and its total population (i.e. all the constituents put together) should not be less than 20,000 as per the 2001 Census. In varying local conditions, there were similar other combinations which have been treated as urban agglomerations satisfying the basic condition of contiguity." Constituents of Urban Agglomerations in Uttarakhand The constituents of Urban Agglomerations in Uttarakhand with a population of 1 lakh or above, are noted below: *Dehradun UA includes Dehradun (M Corp.), Bharuwa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dehradun District
Dehradun district () is a district in Garhwal which is a part of Uttarakhand state in northern India. The district headquarters is Dehradun, which has also served as the interim capital of Uttarakhand since its founding in 2000. The district has 6 tehsils, 6 community development blocks, 17 towns and 764 inhabited villages, and 18 unpopulated villages. As of 2011, it is the second most populous district of Uttarakhand (out of 13), after Haridwar. Dehradun district also includes the prominent towns of Rishikesh, Mussoorie, Landour and Chakrata. The district stretches from the Ganges river in the east to the Yamuna river in the west, and from the Terai and Shivaliks in the south and southeast to the Great Himalaya in the northwest. During the days of British Raj, the official name of the district was Dehra Dun. In 1842, Dun was attached to Saharanpur district and placed under an officer subordinate to the Collector of the district but since 1871 it is being administered as sepa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ram Jhula
Ram Jhula () is an iron suspension bridge across the river Ganges, located north-east from the center of the city of Rishikesh in the Indian state of Uttarakhand. The bridge connects the Sivananda Nagar area of Muni Ki Reti in the Tehri Garhwal district to the Swargashram area of Rishikesh in the Pauri Garhwal district, crossing the river from west to east. Built in the year 1986, the bridge is one of the iconic landmarks of Rishikesh. There are many Hindu ashrams and religious centers established on both sides of the Ganges. Ram Jhula is also a connecting bridge between Sivananda Ashram located in Muni Ki Reti to Gita Bhawan, Parmarth Niketan Parmarth Niketan is an ashram located in Rishikesh, Uttarakhand, India. Overview Parmarth Niketan is situated in the lap of the lush Himalayas, along the banks of the Ganges. The ashram was founded in 1942 by Pujya Swami Shukdevanandji Maharaj ( ... and other temples located in Swargashram. Though similar in design, this bridge i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dehradun
Dehradun (), also known as Dehra Doon, is the winter capital and the List of cities in Uttarakhand by population, most populous city of the Indian state of Uttarakhand. It is the administrative headquarters of the eponymous Dehradun district, district and is governed by the Dehradun Municipal Corporation, with the Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly holding its winter sessions in the city as its winter capital. Part of the Garhwal division, Garhwal region, and housing the headquarters of its Divisional Commissioner, Dehradun is one of the "National Capital Region (India)#Counter magnets, Counter Magnets" of the National Capital Region (India), National Capital Region (NCR) being developed as an alternative centre of growth to help ease the migration and population explosion in the Delhi metropolitan area and to establish a smart city in the Himalayas. Dehradun is located in the Doon Valley on the foothills of the Himalayas nestled between Song River (India), Song River, a tributary ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Triveni Ghat
{{Infobox Hindu temple , name = Triveni Ghat , native_name = Triveni Ghat , image = Triveni Ghat Krishna Arjun Rath.jpg , caption =Statue of Krishna and Arjuna upon a chariot, Triveni Ghat , location = Rishikesh, Uttarakhand , country = {{IND , coordinates = {{coord, 29, 59, 4.834, N, 78, 54, 55.733, E, type:landmark_region:IN, display=inline,title , website = {{URL, https://rishikesh.app/overview/triveni-ghat-in-rishikesh, rishikesh.app/triveni-ghat , district=Dehradun, locale=Triveni ghaat, Rishikesh, Uttarakhand 249201, India, state=Uttarakhand, map_type=India Uttarakhand, map_caption=Location in Uttarakhand The Triveni Ghat is a ghat situated in Rishikesh, Uttarakhand. It is the biggest and most famous ghat in Rishikesh, located at the banks of the Ganges. Devotees visit the ghat to take ritual baths, believing it cleanses them of their sins. It is also used for the performance of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Districts Of Uttarakhand
A district of Uttarakhand state is an administrative geographical unit, headed by a District Magistrate (earlier called District Collector), an officer belonging to the Indian Administrative Service. The district magistrates are assisted by a number of officers such as deputy collector, assistant collector, additional district magistrate, sub-divisional magistrate, tehsildar, naib tehsildar belonging to the Uttarakhand Civil Service and other Uttarakhand state services. A Superintendent of Police, an officer belonging to the Indian Police Service, heads the police in the district and is entrusted with the responsibility of maintaining law and order and related issues. He is assisted by the officers of the Uttarakhand Police Service. A Deputy Conservator of Forests, an officer belonging to the Indian Forest Service, is responsible for managing the Forests, environment and wild-life related issues of the district. He is assisted by the officers of the Uttarakhand Forest Ser ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
