Uttarakhand Raises Resident Doctors' Stipend to Over Rs 1 Lakh, Extends Land Regularisation Deadline

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Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami announced after a state cabinet meeting in Banbasa that monthly stipends for Senior and Junior Resident doctors have been raised from around Rs 75,000 to over Rs 1 lakh. Official sources said the cabinet cleared 24 proposals related to development, land, education and governance reforms, aimed at accelerating infrastructure development and easing public services in border and hill areas. The cabinet approved releasing Rs 66.29 crore to Uttarakhand SIDCUL and Tarai Development Corporation for assets transferred toward expansion of the Greenfield Airport at Pantnagar. It also approved launching the Mukhyamantri Uchcha Shiksha Kaushal Samvardhan Yojana, 2026, under which around 1.19 lakh students in government and private universities and affiliated colleges will receive employability and entrepreneurship training, with about Rs 200 crore to be spent over five years. The cabinet extended by one year the deadline for regularising 'Class B' lands in areas including Dehradun, Lalkuan and Bindukhatta, and separately approved granting Bhumidhari rights to Class-3 and Class-4 land leaseholders and encroachers, including transitional Bhumidhari rights in Nagar Panchayat areas; this specifically covers transferable landholder rights for Class-3/4 lessees in Lalkuan Nagar Panchayat, Nainital district, and a one-year extension for Class-4 land regularisation in Pargana Jaunsar-Bawar, Dehradun district, based on 2004 circle rates. The cabinet also approved a new Project Management Unit in the office of the nodal officer for forest conservation, with six posts created for technical examination of forest land transfer cases and related online alignment work. The cabinet further decided that Group A and Group C employees must submit annual property disclosures, while Group B employees will do so once every five years, and removed the Rs 5 crore guarantee fund previously required to establish a private university. Dhami said the cabinet also discussed managing major state events and seasonal pilgrim traffic, including smooth operations, strict travel management and road conditions on pilgrim routes amid the ongoing Char Dham Yatra, and took several other decisions concerning border regions. The meeting, held at the NHPC complex in Banbasa, Champawat district along the India-Nepal border, marked the first time a Uttarakhand state cabinet meeting has been held outside Dehradun, part of what Dhami described as an initiative to bring governance closer to the state's remote and border areas.

What Changed

• 6 Oct, 03:42 pm
  The Nursing Ekta Manch says the state cabinet did not take up a pending proposal from the Directorate of Medical Education to pay nursing interns a monthly stipend of Rs 13,000, even as it approved a stipend hike for resident doctors. NEM president Naval Pundir said the group is considering a rally or intensified protest over the issue.
• 5 Oct, 09:10 am
  The cabinet also decided that Group A and Group C government employees must submit property details annually, while Group B employees will do so once every five years. Separately, the mandatory Rs 5 crore guarantee fund previously required to establish a private university has been removed as part of the revised norms.
• 4 Oct, 03:12 pm
  The cabinet also approved creating a Project Management Unit in the office of the nodal officer for forest conservation, with six new posts for technical examination of forest land transfer cases, online alignment checks and strengthening the nodal office. On land measures, the cabinet specifically granted transferable landholder rights to Class-3 and Class-4 lessees in Lalkuan Nagar Panchayat, Nainital district, and extended by one year the regularisation deadline for Class-4 land in Pargana Jaunsar-Bawar, Dehradun district, based on 2004 circle rates, with prevailing circle rates to apply thereafter.
• 4 Oct, 12:31 pm
  New reporting confirms the Banbasa cabinet meeting cleared 24 proposals in total, including Rs 66.29 crore for Pantnagar airport expansion, a new Rs 200 crore higher-education skills scheme for 1.19 lakh students, and Bhumidhari land rights for Class-3 and Class-4 leaseholders — alongside the previously reported doctor stipend hike and Class B land regularisation deadline extension.
• 4 Oct, 11:31 am
  A separate report notes that Sunday's cabinet meeting, at which the stipend hike was announced, was held at the NHPC complex in Banbasa, Champawat district — the first time a Uttarakhand state cabinet meeting has been held outside Dehradun, as part of an initiative to bring governance closer to border areas.
• 4 Oct, 09:41 am
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