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The National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Wednesday issued notice to the Centre and Uttarakhand government over allegations that forest are being cleared without due procedure for widening highway leading to Char Dham in the Himalayas and orally asked the respondents to temporarily halt work till March 12. The plea submitted by Citizens for Green Doon, a loose collective of citizens and activists, was acknowledged by a four-member bench of Justices Jawad Rahim, Raghuvendra S. Rathore, S.P. Wangdi and expert-member S.S. Garbyal.