Labourers work to widen the road from Rishikesh to Badrinath in Uttarakhand as part of the Char Dham highway project. Geologists allege steep cutting of the Himalayan slopes to widen the roads by 10 metres and make them all-weather is destabilizing the fragile region and making it prone to landslides. At places, workers violate all norms and directly dump the debris in the Ganga, which obstructs the flow of the river and affects its biodiversity.