Uttarakhand Pradesh Congress Committee president Kishore Upadhyay on Tuesday announced the formation of 28 organisational district and city units after reorganising the existing 18 units. He made this announcement after deliberations with Chief Minister Harish Rawat and other senior party leaders to make the party more active and enhance its reach among the common masses.
Providing this information, the PCC vice-president Jot Singh Bisht said till now the party was carrying out its activities by dividing 13 administrative districts into 18 organisational districts with one district unit each in Tehri, Chamoli, Rudraprayag, Almora, Bageshwar, Champawat, Pithoragarh and Udham Singh Nagar districts along with two organisational units each in Uttarkashi, Pauri, Nainital, Haridwar and Dehradun.
Geographical features of mountainous areas, number of Assembly seats in the plains and municipal corporation areas were among the factors considered before formation of 28 organisational units of the PCC.
These include the new organisational district and city units like Devprayag in Tehri, Rishikesh in Dehradun, Roorkee city and Roorkee rural in Haridwar, Ranikhet in Almora, Didihaat in Pithoragarh, Ramnagar in Nainital, Kashipur, Rudrapur and Bazpur in Udham Singh Nagar. Bisht further said that experienced party members will soon be allocated responsibilities in the newly formed district and city units of the PCC.