for what purpose did sunderlal bahnguna start the chipko movement
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The Chipko movement had started in the early 18th century in Rajasthan. A local woman, Amrita Devi, risked her life along with 84 villagers to protect the forest trees from being cut on the order of the king
The movement practiced the Gandhian method of Satyagraha
It began, in the 20th century, in the hills where forests are the main source of livelihood
The first Chipko action took place in April 1973 in the village of Mandal and spread over the next five years to many Himalayan districts
Demand of the villagers to use wood for making agricultural products had been denied by the government. The movement sparked after the government decided to allot a plot of forest area in the Alaknanda valley to a sports goods company
With the help from a local NGO, the women of the area went into the forest and formed a circle around the trees, protecting them from the men who came to cut down the trees
The women kept an all-night vigil, guarding their trees until all of them leftBy then, the news of this movement have had spread to nearby villages and more people joined in
The success achieved by this protest led to similar protests in other parts of the country
Dhoom Singh Negi, Bachni Devi and many other village women were the first to save trees by hugging them. They even coined the slogan 'What do the forests bear? Soil, water and pure air'
Sunderlal Bahuguna, a Gandhian activist and philosopher, also appealed to the then Prime Minister of India, Indira Gandhi, to implement a ban on cutting down the trees
His appeal resulted in a 15-year ban on chopping of green trees in 1980
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