Question

what is meant by Chipko Andolan​

Answer 1

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. The movement originated in the Himalayan region of Uttar Pradesh (later Uttarakhand) in 1973 and quickly spread throughout the Indian Himalayas. The Hindi word chipko means “to hug” or “to cling to” and reflects the demonstrators’ primary tactic of embracing the trees to impede the loggers.

Answer 2

Chipko andolan was a movement that started in early 1070 from Reni village in Gargwal .It is a movement that oppose the contractors that want to cut trees and it is in favour of afforestation not in defforestation.

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