About 25 km from Dehradun is a village called Thano with a small bazaar and a few houses. Adjacent to it, about six km away, is the Jolly Grant Airport. Nothing ever happened here till the Uttarakhand government decided to expand the airport into an international one. About 243 acres of forest land were to be acquired and handed over to the Airports Authority of India. So the government approached the National Wildlife Board for its approval.
This news sparked angry protests from young people in Dehradun who didn’t think the trees should be felled and that the. . .
