UPDATED: March 9, 2021 17:37 IST
On March 4, CM Trivendra Singh Rawat presented a Rs 57,400.32 crore budget in the state assembly.
Trivendra Singh Rawat resigned as the chief minister of Uttarakhand on Tuesday, nearly four years after he took the oath. With his resignation, Trivendra Singh Rawat became yet another Uttarakhand chief minister who was unable to complete his full five-year tenure.
In the 20 years since Uttarakhand s formation, Congress stalwart Narayan Datt Tiwari has been the only chief minister
Trivendra Singh Rawat was going to complete four years in office on March 17.
Since 2000, when the state was formed, Uttarakhand has seen eight chief ministers: Nityanand Swami, BS Koshyari, ND Tiwari, Maj Gen (retd) BC Khanduri, Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank, Vijay Bahuguna, Harish Rawat and Trivendra Singh Rawat.
Rawat spoke to the media after his resignation and thanked the BJP for giving him the golden opportunity to serve the state for four years. He said the decision to pass on the baton to someone else was unanimous
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Uttarakhand CM Trivendra Rawat said there was not glacier burst in Chamoli.
Multiple agencies have mounted a round-the-clock rescue operation to pull out all stuck inside the Tapovan tunnel since Sunday, February 7, when a catastrophic sudden deluge ripped through several districts of Uttarakhand. The death toll in the tragedy has reached 31 and around 170 are said to be missing. About 30 workers are believed to be stuck inside a tunnel of the National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) Limited project on river Dhauli Ganga in Tapovan.Â
The rescue work proceeded at a great speed on Monday with teams from the Indian Army, NDRF, SDRF and ITBP removing heavy slush from inside the tunnel. Non-stop rescue work continued overnight. Approximate 120 metres of the tunnel entry has been cleared so far. However, removing the enormous quantity of silt inside the tunnel is making it difficult for the rescue teams to move ahead with speed.Â