15,000 valuable trees to be ‘needlessly’ felled to widen Rishikesh-Uttarkashi road

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15,000 valuable trees to be ‘needlessly’ felled to widen Rishikesh-Uttarkashi road [1]

Questions are being raised over the state government and the forest department sanctioning the felling of over 15,000 trees - like jacaranda, fir and gulmohur -- ostensibly for the widening of the

Publication Date:

03/06/2016

Author(s): Seema Sharma [2]

Source: Times Of India (Dehradun) [3]

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