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45th anniversary of Chipko movement
March 28 , 2018
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- Google commemorated the 45th anniversary of the forest conservation initiative called the Chipko movement with a doodle.
- The goal of the Chipko Movement was to draw attention to and prevent deforestation, which had begun to occur on a mass scale to make way for dams or industry or roads.
- The word 'chipko', which means to hug, soon became the name of the eponymous movement.
- In modern India, Chipko Movement started in April 1973 in Uttar Pradesh's Mandal village in the upper Alakananda valley. Soon it spread to other Himalayan districts of the state.
- The Chipko Movement, leaded by local women, was spearheaded by Chand Chandi Prasad Bhatt and his NGO Dasholi Gram Swarajya Sangh. 4
- Sunderlal Bahuguna, a Gandhian activist and philosopher, also appealed to the then Prime Minister of India, Indira Gandhi, to implement a ban on cutting down the trees.
- However, the original movement dates back to the 18th century in Rajasthan where a large group of people from the Bishnoi community resisted the cutting of trees (ordered by Jodhpur’s Maharaja) by hugging them.
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