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Write short note on significance of the Chipko Movement.

  • UPSC 2019
  • 10 marks
  • Social Movements

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Chipko (“to hug”) began at Mandal, Chamoli, in April 1973, when Chandi Prasad Bhatt’s Dasholi Gram Swarajya Sangh threatened to embrace ash trees the Forest Department had handed to a sports-goods firm. On 26 March 1974 Gaura Devi, head of Reni’s Mahila Mangal Dal, led the village women to guard a forest marked for felling.…

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