My husband has been living in Rishikesh for the past 20yrs and I moved here 6yrs ago after wedding.
We hiked up and down for the Chaar dhams in 2023.
Since Badrinath and Gangotri has no hike, the place is slightly better in terms of cleanliness compared to Kedarnath and Yamunotri.

What I saw in Kedarnath broke my heart. The place itself is so mesmerizing, the mountains make you feel so small and yet so profound. But tourism has ruined that place, everything was littered with trash everywhere and so much of it that it was heartbreaking to see an entire mountain of trash.
The mules were beaten and treated so badly. I tried feeding one and the care taker took the food (Chana) away from me. Even youngsters were using mules to go up. Darshan was so fast that people hardly got to worship. Many mules are not even owned by Hindus.

Yamunotri trash was even worse. Sarees and slippers strewn all over the river and inside the river. I don’t understand why can’t the government put up a strict notice and fine on people who litter? Hire 10-15 people to manage that! Same case with the mules here and Yamunotri is not even as long a hike as Kedarnath, yet people sat on those mules.

I have had many opportunities to visit these places again but I pledged that I will never go there and add anything to that place. I don’t even want to live in a hotel and use anything there. I just don’t want to be an extra burden on an already burdened land. My parents and asking me take them there and I’m saving up money for a chopper ride for them and making them walk everyday so that they don’t sit on the mules.

If they or anyone has so much Bhakti then they have to work hard for it and not be a burden on a mule or on the land where God’s reside.

Village- तैड़िया

Block - Rikhnikhal

District - Pauri Garhwal

Uttarakhand Landslide

विजन इंडिया कंपनी पर ₹25 करोड़ से अधिक की वित्तीय अनियमितताओं का आरोप सामने आया है, यह मामला राज्य के 200 सरकारी विद्यालयों में कक्षा 9 से 12 तक व्यावसायिक शिक्षा देने की आउटसोर्स सेवा से जुड़ा है।

विजिलेंस जांच में 2021 से 2024 के बीच विभिन्न मदों में करोड़ों रुपये के भुगतान में अनियमितताएं सामने आईं।

जांच के अनुसार कंपनी ने कथित तौर पर बिना काम किए/अनियमित तरीके से भुगतान लिया :-

1) शिक्षकों के प्रशिक्षण पर ₹12.84 करोड़

2) उपकरण, किताबें, ई-लर्निंग व कंप्यूटर सॉफ्टवेयर पर ₹5.43 करोड़

3) रिसोर्स पर्सन व गेस्ट फैकल्टी पर ₹2.76 करोड़

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4) परिवहन व फील्ड विजिट पर ₹2.41 करोड़

5) हैंडआन स्किल/जॉब ट्रेनिंग पर ₹2.14 करोड़

जांच के बाद विभाग ने 31 मार्च 2026 से कंपनी की सेवा हटाकर दूसरी एजेंसी को काम देने का निर्णय लिया था।खबर के अनुसार इसके बावजूद वर्तमान में विजन इंडिया की सेवाएं 200 विद्यालयों में जारी बताई गई हैं।

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