Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami on Wednesday, 14 October 2026, approved financial sanctions totalling ₹70 crore for a wide range of developmental and construction projects spread across multiple districts of the state. The approvals cover road repairs, drainage works, pedestrian bridges, community halls, residential buildings, and landslide mitigation works.

Key Allocations at a Glance

The single largest sanction — ₹19.99 crore — goes toward revamping road infrastructure within the campus of Pandit Govind Ballabh Pant University of Agriculture and Technology in Udham Nagar. A cluster of Dharamshalas (community rest halls) is set to be built across various villages and gram sabhas in Udham Singh Nagar district at a cost of ₹2.67 crore.

In Dehradun, ₹76.60 lakh has been approved for the construction of cement concrete (CC) roads and drains in the Sahaspur region. Additionally, ₹77.22 lakh — with an initial instalment of ₹46.33 lakh — has been earmarked for the maintenance of the Maa Purnagiri Fair area in Champawat, including the construction of rest sheds and a culvert.

Infrastructure and Connectivity Projects

Chief Minister Dhami approved ₹5.38 crore for the construction of the Pokhari-Chandikaghat motor road in Gangolihat. A significant connectivity project — a 250-metre-long steel truss pedestrian bridge over the Rawasan River, linking Rasulpur-Mangolpura-Aryanagar and Laldhang in Haridwar — received an allocation of ₹9.34 crore.

Building and institutional infrastructure also received attention. ₹9.71 crore has been sanctioned for the construction of residential and non-residential buildings at the Police Training College in Narendra Nagar, Tehri Garhwal. A further ₹3.80 crore was approved for residential construction at the Salt Police Station in Almora.

Landslide Treatment and Green Infrastructure

Addressing a long-standing vulnerability in the hill state, the Chief Minister cleared ₹5.35 crore for geo-technical treatment of a chronic landslide-prone zone at the 9th kilometre of the Mori-Netwar-Jakhol motor road (State Highway No. 48) in the Purola region of Uttarkashi. An additional ₹14.50 crore was sanctioned for two further landslide-zone treatment projects in the state. Uttarakhand's mountainous terrain makes such interventions a recurring budget priority, particularly ahead of the winter season when road closures due to landslides can cut off remote communities.

Rounding out the package, ₹78.50 lakh has been approved for the installation of irrigation systems across 10 nurseries of the Eco Task Force, supporting the state's afforestation and ecological restoration programme.

Broader Significance

This batch of approvals reflects the Dhami government's stated focus on last-mile infrastructure in a state where geography makes basic civic works disproportionately expensive and complex. The inclusion of police infrastructure, university road networks, and ecological works alongside routine civic projects signals a broad-based spending push. How swiftly these sanctions translate into tendered and completed works will be the metric that residents and opposition parties are likely to track.