Possessing the highest amount of ice outside the Polar Regions, the Himalayan glaciers are valuable water resources since they feed major river basins where >800 million people live in mountains and downstream areas. However, these glaciers are continuously melting except in Karakoram at variable rates across the Himalaya. The heterogeneity in glacier response is often attributed to climate change. It is reasonable to assume that glaciers next to each other are subjected to similar climatic conditions, even though they exhibit significantly different behaviours. Taking an example of Alaknanda Basin, Uttarakhand, Central Himalaya where ~300 glaciers are present and their melt water contribute to River Ganga, are assessed for their response in past three decades based on field based measurements and remote sensing techniques. In-situ measurements compliment the remote sensing methods of glacier mapping. The rate of glacier area change was found similar (0.1% a-1) for 1994-2006 and 2006-2020 while average retreat of glaciers slightly increased over the last decade. About 22 glaciers (>2 km2), out of the total also indicate an average surface ice thinning of 0.65 m a-1 (from 0.05 to 2.5 ma-1) during 2000-2016. Overall, response of glaciers of Alaknanda Basin was found dependent on the extent of debris-cover, slope and size of the glaciers in addition to climate change. Long-term high-altitude meteorological data is further needed to comprehend the glacier-climate interaction and may enhance our understanding of glacier response.