Collect the information regarding any one
of the nationally recognized movement
related to environment and prepare a short
report on it.
Answers
P.P.SUBBAIAH P.AJAY KUMAR
Answer:
Chipko Movement was started on April 24, 1973, at Mandal of Chamoli district of Gharwal division of Uttarakhand. The Chipko is one of the world-known environmental movements in India.
Explanation:
Chipko Movement
The Chipko movement, also called the Chipko Andolan, was a non-violent social and ecological movement of villagers, especially women, in India in the 1970s to protect trees and forests designated for government-sponsored logging. The movement began in the Himalayan region of Uttarakhand (then part of Uttar Pradesh) in 1973 and quickly spread throughout the Indian Himalayas. The Hindi word chipko means "to hug" or "to grab" and reflects the protesters' main tactic of hugging trees to prevent deforestation.
In 1964, Chandi Prasad Bhatt, an environmentalist and Gandhian social activist, founded the cooperative organization Dasholi Gram Swarajya Sangh (later Dasholi Gram Swarajya Mandal [DGSM]) to promote small-scale industries of rural villagers using local resources. When industrial logging was combined with severe monsoon floods in 1970 that killed more than 200 people in the region, the DGSM became a force of resistance against big industry. The first Chipko demonstration took place in the upper Alaknanda Valley near the village of Mandali in April 1973. A small number of trees were not allowed to be accessed for building agricultural tools. Villagers were outraged when the government gave a much larger plot to a sporting goods manufacturer.
When their appeal was rejected, Chandi Prasad Bhatt led the villagers into the forest and hugged the trees to stop the felling. After several days of protests, the government revoked the company's mining license and granted the original writ sought by DGSM. With the success of Mandals, DGSM staff and local environmentalist Sunderlal Bahuguna started sharing Chipko's tactics with people in other villages in the area. One of the next major demonstrations took place in 1974 near the village of Reni, where more than 2,000 trees were scheduled to be felled. After a large student-led protest, the government invited men from surrounding villages to a nearby town for compensation so that logging could continue without confrontation. However, they were met by the women of the village, led by Gaura Devi, who refused to move out of the forest and finally forced the hunters to retreat. Ren's actions prompted the state government to set up a commission to investigate deforestation in the Alaknanda Valley and subsequently impose a 10-year ban on commercial logging in the region.
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