Twenty-six infrastructure and development works spread across six districts — and a single signature from the Chief Minister's Office of Uttarakhand. Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami on Tuesday, 3 November 2026 approved financial and administrative sanction of ₹22 crore 15 lakh 32 thousand for a wide sweep of projects covering roads, drains, protective works, temple beautification, handpumps, and street electrification.

The approvals span Dehradun, Pithoragarh, Almora, Champawat, Tehri Garhwal, Haridwar, and Pauri Garhwal — a geographic spread that signals the state government's intent to push visible local development into every major assembly segment ahead of administrative deadlines.

Mussoorie constituency gets the lion's share at ₹8.96 crore

The single largest allocation in this batch goes to the Mussoorie assembly segment in Dehradun district, where ₹8.96 crore has been sanctioned across twelve micro-projects. The works target internal roads, drainage construction, and protective civil works in areas including Arcadia's Mitthi Behri (₹89.44 lakh), Canal Road Jakhan Nagar Ward 07 (₹82.29 lakh), Malsi Ward 01 (₹60.91 lakh), and wards in Garhi Cantt — Nageshwar, Sanjay Vihar, Tapkeshwar, Roz Pur Road, Doon Vihar, Dobhalwala, Ghoranakhas, Kishan Nagar, and Vijay Colony. These are the granular, street-level fixes that hill-town residents most notice: a crumbling lane, an open drain, an unstable slope.

Pithoragarh's mountain villages and a mela site on the Nepal border

Pithoragarh district receives ₹3.44 crore across four works. Dharma village Gatghorgarhi in Dharchula — a remote tract that edges toward the Nepal frontier — gets ₹79.49 lakh for construction of the Nauling Mela site, turning a traditional fair ground into a formal facility. Gram Sabha Lima Toda in the Didihat assembly area gets ₹86.45 lakh for a concrete road; Gram Sabha Upartola in Pithoragarh's Vin block gets ₹84.94 lakh for an internal road; and Gram Panchayat Kholimali Kanyuri in Didihat gets ₹93.64 lakh for stone-paved paths, a culvert, and protective works.

Temples, fair grounds, and sacred spaces getting a formal makeover

A striking thread running through this approval list: Uttarakhand is pouring money into the aesthetic and functional upgrade of its religious landscape. In Almora, the Siddheshwar Mandir Udhan near Danya in the Jageshwar constituency gets ₹97.08 lakh for beautification — with a first instalment of ₹58.248 lakh already released by government order. Takula Mandal in the Someshwar segment gets ₹45.63 lakh for boar-proof fencing to protect farmland.

In Champawat district, three separate government orders sanction beautification of the Bholeshwar Temple at Bhagirakhet (₹25 lakh), the Bhagwati Mela site in Khatoli (₹50 lakh), and the Bhageshwar Mela site in Bugakhyali (₹25 lakh). Separately, the historic Doodhadhari Bhagwati Mela site in Gram Panchayat Thanta under the Lohaghat constituency receives ₹97.10 lakh — covering beautification, a spectator gallery, and a meditation centre. In Tehri Garhwal's Devprayag segment, the Chouki Mahadev Shivalay in Kirtinagar development block gets ₹67.87 lakh for beautification.

Haridwar's handpumps and Kotdwar's street lights

Not every approval is about stone and temple. Haridwar district gets 100 new handpumps — 50 in rural areas of the Jhabrera constituency at ₹99.44 lakh and another 50 across villages in the Laksar constituency at ₹123.46 lakh — directly addressing drinking-water access in the Ganga plains belt. Meanwhile, Kotdwar in Pauri Garhwal gets ₹344.04 lakh for electric pole installation, line construction, and line shifting to expand street lighting under the municipal corporation.

Twenty-six projects. Six districts. One approval round. The cumulative picture is of a state government methodically converting administrative sanctions into on-ground footprints — from a Himalayan fair ground to a plains handpump — all in a single day's file-clearing by CM Dhami.