New Delhi: Union environment minister Jairam Ramesh has gone ahead and paved the legal ground to regulate development work along 135 kilometres of the Bhagirathi river from Gaumukh to Uttarkashi after the Uttarakhand government failed to do so.

In a letter to the BJP chief minister of the hill state, Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank, the Union environment minister has pointed out that a decision to