Question

Which is a great achievement of the Chipko Movement?
A. Save water for agriculture.
B. Save wild species of the tehri region.
C. Successfully resisted deforestation.
D. None of these

Answer 1

Hint:
- An organized opposition to forest destruction spread across India in the 1970s and came to be known as the Chipko movement. The name of the campaign comes from the word 'embrace' as the villagers embraced the trees, keeping them from being felled by the contractors.
- The main demand of the people in these protests was that the advantages of the forests (especially the right to feed) should go to the local people.

Complete answer:
Chipko Movement -
The Chipko movement, also known as the Chipko andolan, was a nonviolent social and ecological movement in India in the 1970s by rural villagers, particularly women, aimed at saving trees and forests for government-backed logging. In 1973, the movement emerged in the Uttar Pradesh (later Uttarakhand) Himalayan area and spread rapidly across the Indian Himalayas. The Hindi word chipko means "to hug" or to cling to and represents the primary strategy of the demonstrators of embracing the trees to hinder the loggers.
Importance of the Chipko movement -
The importance of the Chipko movement in forest protection helps to conserve and manage the forest, so this movement has awakened people to the importance of maintaining trees as it allows a nation's ecosystem to function properly and also helps people live healthily and have a prosperous lifestyle.
Movement's major successes -
One of the movement's major successes was that the Uttar Pradesh government ensured zero tolerance for commercial forest felling and saved thousands of trees from being felled, which resulted in the conservation of abundant forest resources for local benefits.
The Chipko movement was a movement in India to protect forests. In 1973, it began. Alaknanda floods have frightened people that deforestation has led to disruption.
Thus, individuals took up this campaign and organized a number of demonstrations to raise people's consciousness. They protested against logging operations for trade. And deforestation has finally been stopped.

Hence, the correct answer is option C.

Note:
- With a 15-year ban on green felling in the Himalayan forests of that state by the order of Mrs. Indira Gandhi, the then Prime Minister of India, the Chipko protests in Uttar Pradesh achieved a big victory in 1980. The movement has spread to many states throughout the country since then.
- The women of Tehri-Advani Garhwal's village tied the sacred thread around the trunks of trees and hugged the trees, so it was called the 'Chipko Movement' or the 'hug the tree movement.'