Fifty years ago, a group of women from the villages of the Western Himalayas sparked Chipko, a green movement that remains relevant in the age of climate change. Fifty years ago, a group of women from the villages of the Western Himalayas sparked Chipko, a green movement that remains relevant in the age of climate change.
Chardham Teerth Purohit Mahapanchayat and Vishva Hindu Parishad have welcomed the decision of the Uttarakhand government withdrawing Char Dham Devasthanam Manag
Kautilya Singh & Ishita Mishra | TNN
Dehradun: At the Vishwa Hindu Parishad’s margdarshak mandal meeting at Haridwar, chief minister Tirath Singh Rawat on Friday said that the Uttrakhand government would denotify 51 temples, including Char Dham ones, from the Char Dham Devasthanam Board Act, giving control of the shrines back to priests from the hands of bureaucrats.
Repeating his promises to ‘teerth purohits’ (priests of the shrines) who had been agitating against the Devasthanam Board Act introduced by the Trivendra Rawat government which brought the shrines under the control of the state government the CM said that his government would now review the Act.
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