State Foundation Day: activists honoured at Rudrapur's Gandhi Park; CM's 13 announcements include higher honorarium for anganwadi, ASHA workers and bhojan matas from December 1

A function was held at Rudrapur's Gandhi Park (Shriram Park) on Monday (November 9), Uttarakhand's 27th Foundation Day. According to Hindustan and Dainik Bhaskar, guests including MLA Shiv Arora, Mayor Vikas Sharma and District Magistrate Nitin Singh Bhadauria lit the lamp, offered flowers at the portraits of martyrs and honoured senior state-movement activists with shawls. Sanitation workers, municipal staff and women from self-help groups were also honoured, and schoolchildren performed folk songs and dances. The same day at Bharadisain, Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami made 13 announcements (ABP Live). They include raising the honorarium of anganwadi workers and helpers, ASHA workers and bhojan matas (school cooks) from December 1, 2026; raising the honorarium of guest teachers soon; waiving the surcharge on late payment of bills for small farmers and electricity consumers; separate help for costly treatment of people injured in wildlife attacks; and a cabinet committee on the state-movement activists' demands. How much the honorarium will go up was not stated.