economic fabric
What is Dehradun made of?
news coverage + 3×registered companies + 2×mapped places, log-scaled vs strongest sector
momentum
What the city turned toward · Jan–Apr 2026
Each topic's share of news attention, January–April 2026 against September–December 2025 — news ingestion paused in May, so this is the latest complete window.
Infrastructure & housing
21 → 64 news reports
▲179%
Disasters Emergencies
147 → 7 news reports
▼96%
Policing Law Enforcement
36 → 76 news reports
▲93%
Healthcare
31 → 9 news reports
▼73%
Elections Politics
9 → 14 news reports
▲43%
Environment
25 → 16 news reports
▼41%
Crime
288 → 441 news reports
▲40%
Corruption
84 → 55 news reports
▼40%
Immigration Border
18 → 14 news reports
▼29%
Employment
11 → 9 news reports
▼25%
a rising share means the city's attention is turning toward it — not necessarily more incidents
top city themes
What Dehradun's news is about
Themes across the city's entire news coverage — ≈62.4K located reports — with each theme's momentum, its most specific keywords, and how the coverage feels. A CRITICAL badge means most of that theme's coverage is extremely negative.
Politics
▲32.3% growing
Disaster Relief · Disaster Management · Disaster Recovery · Post-disaster Reconstruction
52% negative coverage
Government
▲17.5% growing
Disaster Management · Disaster Relief · Faculty Advancement · Disaster Recovery
64% positive coverage
Crime
▲55.3% growing
Murder Investigations · Acquaintance Rape · Sexual Assault · Child Maltreatment
99% negative coverage
Education
▼16.3% declining
College Entrance Exams · Admissions Testing · Master's Admission · Graduate Admission Criteria
69% positive coverage
Transportation
▲113.3% growing
Truck Accident · Bus Crash · Transport Crash · Traffic Disaster
60% negative coverage
Law Enforcement
▲100.0% growing
Gangland Killing · Murder Investigations · Traffic Disaster · Vehicle Collision
96% negative coverage
Health
steady coverage
Post-covid Complications · Long Covid · Undetected Infections · Infection Trajectories
73% negative coverage
Environment
▼55.0% declining
Sustainable Forestry · Forest Conservation · Tiger Conservation · Forest Protection
54% negative coverage
Elections
steady coverage
Party Nomination Rules · Voter Intimidation · Voter Registration Deadlines · Voter Roll Maintenance
57% positive coverage
momentum window: Jan–Apr 2026 vs Sep–Dec 2025 · sentiment is a property of the news coverage, not a city rating
city signals
The character of Dehradun
- ✓Education-led knowledge city— Education scores 10/10; Graphic Era leads local institutional research.
- ✓Customer-facing job market— Sales, communication and customer service dominate employer demand.
- ✓Broad service economy— Retail, healthcare and technology each score 10/10.
- ✓Branded hotel expansion— Le Meridien opened; Lemon Tree signed a Mohkampur property.
- ✓Specialist science cluster— Forest, wildlife and petroleum institutes anchor research beyond computing.
- ✓Emerging industrial base— Only 5% of tracked companies are manufacturing-adjacent.
- ✓Large recent founder cohort— 499 companies were founded since 2018.
- ✓Thin funding pipeline— Just 27 tracked companies have ever raised outside money.
everyday life
Living in Dehradun means…
- ✓keeping a closer crime watch— Crime took a bigger news slice, led by homicide.
- ✓working in sales and service— Sales, communication and customer service dominate employer demand.
- ✓choosing among education providers— Education spans 145 companies and several research-producing universities.
- ✓respecting flood and crash risks— Deadly flood, bus and traffic events remain in local news.
- ✓seeing branded hotels arrive— Le Meridien opened; Lemon Tree signed a Mohkampur property.
- ✓reading a wary local mood— Half of local coverage reads negative.
read from the news record — not a survey
hidden depth
Things most people don't know
- Graphic Era University accounts for 2129 of 4633 papers in the partial institutional research view.
- The Dehradun research record also names Latvian, Ethiopian and Croatian forest institutes.
- Mochiko Group is listed with 6721 staff, while Graphic Era University is listed with 750.
- Only 27 of 886 tracked companies have ever raised outside money, despite 499 being founded since 2018.
- A 103-key Le Meridien opened while Hind Rectifiers agreed to sell a non-operational factory.