Uttarakhand’s Cabinet approved a roughly ₹200-crore higher-education skills programme at its October 4 meeting in Banbasa, Champawat. The state Information Department’s release confirms the meeting and its decisions; Jagran and IANS reported the skills allocation that day. The approval sets a programme in motion, rather than showing that training or employment outcomes have already been delivered.
Jagran reported that the programme would run for five years and add skills courses alongside students’ regular higher education. Devbhoomi Media and Uttarakhand Morning Post identified it as the Chief Minister Higher Education Skills Enhancement Scheme, 2026, intended to cover approximately 1.19 lakh students at government and private universities and affiliated colleges. The student figure describes the proposed reach, not a count of people already trained or placed in jobs.
The meeting also approved a change to the payment route for poultry-feed subsidies. The detailed accounts published by Devbhoomi Media and Uttarakhand Morning Post on October 4 say payments would move from the existing CBDC/e-rupee arrangement to direct transfers into Aadhaar-linked bank accounts. This is an approved delivery change within the subsidy programme, not evidence that beneficiaries have already received new payments.
Other decisions covered land administration, university standards and government-service rules. The reviewed accounts differ on some technical details, so those figures are not treated here as settled legal requirements. The original implementing notifications and the full Cabinet decision record were not available in the reviewed material; their wording, commencement dates and departmental instructions remain important for applicants and affected institutions.
Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami chaired the meeting at the NHPC complex near the India–Nepal border. The Information Department’s October 4 statement described it as the first Cabinet meeting in Champawat district. Dhami said holding meetings outside Dehradun would bring local needs closer to decision-making; that is the government’s stated rationale, separate from measurable results of the newly approved programmes.