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He was 94.
He breathed his last at 12.05 pm, AIIMS Director Ravikant said.
Bahuguna, one of India’s best-known environmentalists, was admitted to the hospital on May 8 after testing positive for COVID-19.
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He was on CPAP therapy in the ICU of the premier hospital.
Condoling the death, Chief Minister Tirath Singh Rawat described it as a big loss not just for Uttarakhand and India but for the entire world.
”It was he who made the Chipko movement a movement of the masses,” Rawat said.