Question

What do you understand by ' CHIPKO' ?​

Answer 1

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Chipko movement, also called Chipko andolan, nonviolent social and ecological movement by rural villagers, particularly women, in India in the 1970s, aimed at protecting trees and forests slated for government-backed logging.

Explanation:

Chandi Prasad Bhatt, was the founder of Chipko. Chipko -- "to hug" in Hindi shows romantic images of poor, village women in the hills of northern India, hugging trees to prevent them from being cut down by the very axes of forest contractors that also threatened their lives. It is a movement of women trying to save their environment

Answer 2

The Chipko movement, also known as the Chipko Andolan, was an Indian forest protection campaign that began in 1973.

On Chipko Movement  

• Chandi Prasad Bhatt, an environmentalist and Gandhian social activist, organized the first Chipko campaign in 1973 in Mandal village.

• It was a peaceful environmental and societal movement launched by rural communities, mainly women.

• A government decision to grant forest areas to a sports goods corporation sparked the Chipko movement.  

• Chipko is a Hindi term that means "to embrace" or "to cling to," and it refers to the protestors' principal method of hugging trees to obstruct loggers.
• With the breakthrough of the Chipko movement in Mandal, DGSM employees and a local ecologist Sunderlal Bahuguna proceeded to share Chipko's techniques with people in other villages around the region.