Question

Write a short note on 'Chipko Andolan' (Hug the Trees Movement).

Answer 1

'Chipko Andolan' was started by the common people to conserve the forests. The movement originated in a remote village named Reni, in Garhwal. In this movement, when the workers of a contractor came to cut the trees, in absence of the men of the village, all the women clasped the tree trunks in order to save the trees.