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INDIA - DEMOCRACY
- CHIPKO MOVEMENT |
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Date-wise Events |
- March 26, 1974: On this
day, Gaura Devi lead a group of 27 women of Laata village,
Henwalghati, Garhwal Himalayas, to form circles around trees
to stop them from being felled, thereby giving fillip to
this movement in India.
- 1982: Chandi Prasad
Bhatt was awarded the Ramon Magsaysay Award for
Community Leadership. He is also a recipient of PADMA
BHUSHAN Award in 2005 and the Gandhi Peace Prize in 2013.
- Chandi Prasad Bhattan was an Indian Gandhian
environmentalist and social activist, who founded
Dasholi Gram Swarajya Sangh (DGSS) in Gopeshwar in 1964,
which later became a mother-organization to the Chipko
Movement, in which he was one of the pioneers.
- 2009: Sundarlal
Bahuguna was awarded the PADMA VIBHUSHAN.
- Sunderlal Bahuguna was a noted
Garhwali environmentalist, Chipko movement leader and a
follower of Mahatma Gandhi's philosophy of Non-violence and
Satyagraha.
- This idea of chipko movement was of
his wife and the action was taken by him.
- For years he has been fighting for
the preservation of forests in the Himalayas, first as a
member of the Chipko movement in the 1970s, and later
spearheaded the Anti-Tehri Dam movement starting 1980s, to
early 2004.
- He was one of the early
environmentalists of India, and later he and people
associated with the Chipko movement later started taking up
environmental issues, like against large dams.
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Description |
This movement started in
1970's as a non violent movement aimed at protection and
conservation of trees and forests from being destroyed. The name
of the Chipko moment originated from the word 'embrace' as the
villagers used to hug the trees and protect them from wood
cutters from cutting them.
Both female and male activists played pivotal roles in the
movement; the major players included Gaura Devi, Sudesha
Devi, Bachni Devi, Chandi Prasad Bhatt, Sundarlal Bahuguna,
Govind Singh Rawat, Dhoom Singh Neji, Shamsher Singh Bisht and
Ghanasyam Raturi, the Chipko poet, whose songs echo throughout
the Himalayas. |
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