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Sunderlal Bahuguna
May 24 , 2021
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- Noted environmentalist and Padma Vibhushan Sunderlal Bahuguna, died recently.
- Sunderlal Bahuguna, was one among leaders leading the chipko movement.
- Sunderlal Bahuguna was a life-long environmentalist and was credited for founding the Chipko movement.
- Chipko movement was the splendid movement at the Garhwal region in the 1970s.
- It was a grassroots movement that swept through the with villagers hugging trees to stop them from being axed.
- Later in 1990s, he spearheaded the Anti-Tehri Dam movement and even went to jail for it in 1995.
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