Haldwani is “Gateway to Kumaon”, a city in Uttarakhand, an important Business Centre, which along with its twin township of Kathgodam forms the Haldwani-Kathgodam municipal board in Nainital District in the Indian state of Uttarakhand.

It is one of the most populous towns in Uttarakhand, and is known as the “Gateway to Kumaon”. In Kumaoni, the local dialect, the place is called “Haldwani”, after the tree named “Haldu” (Haldina Cordifolia), which was found in abundance prior to deforestation for agriculture and settlement.

There are various developmental plans for the city owing to its importance in the state of Uttarakhand. These include building of additional infrastructure like stadium, flyover, bus terminus and industrial complex. All this has come at a cost – the last 20 years have seen an explosion in the demographics leading to a creaking infrastructure.

The city is struggling to live up to its sobriquet of “Green City”. The shortage of water in the Gaula river has forced the Administration to create some new projects for water harvesting and also increase of number of water treatment plants.

Haldwani is said to be a fast-growing educational hub of Uttarakhand. Many new institutions are open in lower Haldwani areas. Since, the success of 108 mobile medical van services across the province, the Govt. is planning to expand this service in a better way for the more populated Haldwani city.

Haldwani’s forests which bear the best timber anywhere in India and South Asia, are for now in a motion of significant demand because of their best quality. So the Govt. is also planning to keep the forestry as green as it always was.