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Answer 1

Chipko movement started in 1970, non violent movement aimed at protection and conservation of trees from being destroyed .

The outcomes were-

1. The government issued a ban on felling the trees in the Himalayan region for 15 years until the green cover was fully restored.

2. It became a symbol of many popular movement that emerged in different parts of country during 1970s and later.

Answer 2

The name of the movement comes from the word 'Embrace', as the villagers hugged the trees, and prevented the contractors' from felling them. The main aim of the Chipko Movement or Chipko Andolan was to protect the trees of the forests to be cut. It was basically a forest conservation movement

It was the Chipko movement that in 1980, the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi made a bill in which Himalayan areas were banned for 15 years for cutting forests. Afterwards, the Chipko movement spread to the states of East, Central, and South of India.

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