Uttarakhand Elections 2017: The Issues Likely to Dominate

Besides unemployment and migration, lack of power and other infrastructures like road constitute major electoral issues in the state.

According to a data, more than 7 lakh people, of whom 90 per cent are educated, are unemployed in the state.

But this data only takes into account those who are registered with the state’s employment exchange bureaus. That means the number of unemployed people could be much more than what meets the eye.

Here is a graphical representation of the population break-up and issues to watch out for: