NGT paves way for Chardham highway project
(WorldNews India)

In 2012, the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change brought out a notification declaring a 100-km, 4179-sq km area between Gaumukh and Uttarkashi as an eco-sensitive zone to provide it legal protection from environmental degradation. The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has paved the way for the NH-34 stretch of the PMO's ambitious Chardham highway widening project, that will connect Uttarakhand's holy sites, as it disposed of a...