20 new Chhath ghats to come up in eight Udham Singh Nagar towns: CM announces at Khatima Diwali fair; clean water in Kashipur's Mahadev canal from November 12

Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami has announced 20 new Chhath ghats in eight towns of Udham Singh Nagar. According to Jagran, he made the announcement late on Monday evening at the 14th Diwali fair of Bharat Vikas Parishad at the Tarai Seed Development Corporation ground in Khatima, naming Kashipur, Jaspur, Rudrapur, Bajpur, Gadarpur, Sitarganj, Khatima and Kichha. The report does not say how many ghats each town will get, where they will be built or when work will start. Ghats were also announced at Premnagar and at Badhwala in Vikasnagar in Dehradun district, and at Banbasa in Champawat. Meanwhile, according to Amar Ujala, preparations have begun at the Chhath ghat on the Mahadev canal near the Chaiti complex in Kashipur. Assistant engineer Gaurav Pathak of the irrigation department said garbage, polythene and silt were cleared from the canal with a JCB machine, another special cleaning will follow, and clean water will be released into the canal from November 12.