The memorandum given to Chief Minister Harish Rawat , on Saturday , read : “ The stone crushers working in the area will [ be the cause of dust and health problems which will ] result in migration of the population … here most of the people are completely dependent on the earnings from the agricultural produce [ and the dust from the stone crushers would destroy agriculture ] . ” Environmentalist Anil Prakash Joshi , founder of the Himalayan Environmental Studies and Conservation Organisation ( HESCO ) , was present during the protest .