Question

State the main effects of the Chipko Movement in India.

Answer 1

Hint:
- The biggest consequence of this revolution was that one big agenda in politics was the climate.
- The government passed the Forest Conservation Act and then the Prime Minister abolished forest cutting in the Himalayan areas for 15 years.
- The key drivers of the campaign were women, with many immortal pictures of them embracing trees to save them from being chopped down.

Complete answer:
The Chipko movement began in 1973 in the Uttrakhand district of Chamoli. To avoid the cutting of jungles and deforestation by state forest contractors, the village farmers began this campaign. It soon extended to the state's other Himalayan districts. A government decision to grant forest land to a sporting goods corporation caused the Chipko Campaign. Sunderlal Bahuguna, a Gandhi leader, gave direction to the movement and his request to Indira Gandhi, the then Prime Minister of India, culminated in a ban on the cutting of trees and whose trans-Himalayan foot march of 5,000 kilometers in 1981-83 was critical in spreading the word of Chipko. In 1980, his appeal resulted in a 15-year moratorium on the cutting of green trees. The Chipko movement's main influence was that it encouraged the government of the Union to amend the Indian Forest Act, 1927, and adopted the 1980 Forest Protection Act, which specifies that forest land should not be used for non-forest purposes.

Note:
- The Chipko movement is renowned for its slogan "Ecology is a permanent economy".
-The Chipko Movement was a non-violent movement aimed at protecting and stopping the degradation of trees and forests.
- It offered an indication of the beginning of non-violent resistance in India, and its popularity ensured that it was immediately recognized by the world.