Conservationists, locals criticise plans to relocate cremation site from Pashupati

Officials at Pashupati Area Development Trust say the existing cremation ghats cannot handle the growing number of bodies.

Conservationists, locals and heritage activists have accused the Pashupati Area Development Trust of planning to relocate the cremation area from Aryaghat and Bhashmeshwar to elsewhere and warned that they would not tolerate such a move.