Question

What is chipko movement and what is the benefits of local population?

Answer 1

Explanation:

1) It forced the government to rethink their priorities in the use of forest produce and include the local people in forest management. 2) The local people could continue depending on the forests for meeting their basic needs.

Answer 2

Answer:

The Chipko movement of 1973 was one of the most famous among these. The first Chipko action took place spontaneously in April 1973 in the village of Mandal in the upper Alakananda valley and over the next five years spread to many districts of the Himalayas in Uttar Pradesh.

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.