AMID GROWING concerns over plans to cut thousands of trees in the ecologically fragile Uttarkashi-Gangotri stretch in Uttarakhand for the Char Dham road project, a yatra led by local citizen and environmental groups and supported by the RSS’s environment wing culminated in Harsil on Sunday.

A group of around 100 participants performed symbolic worship of Deodar trees, along one of the last pristine stretches of upper Ganga, tying Raksha Sutras or sacred threads.

Among the participants were Gopal Arya, the head of RSS’s environment wing. BJP patriarch Murli Manohar Joshi and RSS senior functionary Krishna Gopal supported the yatra’s participants through a video message during the tree-worship rituals. The participants stressed that an alternative and sustainable road-building model was ne

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