Chipko Movement Of Bishnoi Year

The modern chipko movement started in the 1970s by sunderlal bahuguna.

Chipko movement of bishnoi year. It is the place where chipko movement originated in india. Chipko movement came into existence in 1973 to protect trees from cutting down. However it was sunderlal bahuguna a gandhian.

The chipko movement or chipko andolan was a forest conservation movement in india. September 11 signifies a very important landmark in the history of india s environmental movement. It is estimated that between 1972 and 1979 more than 150 villages were involved with the chipko movement resulting in 12 major protests and many minor confrontations in uttarakhand.

A local woman called amrita devi bishnoi. Chipko movement chipko movement was started on 26 march 1974 spontaneously in uttar pradesh in an effort to save areas of trees and forests from cutting by forest contractors. In 2013 the department of environment and forests declared september 11 as national forest.

The bishnoi society is india s leading environmentalists at that time who inspired the chipko movement in 1973. It began in 1973 in uttarakhand then a part of uttar pradesh at the foothills of himalayas and went on to become a rallying point for many future environmental movements all over the world. In the beginning old people voluntarily started holding the trees to be cut in an embrace as in the chipko movement of 20th century in uttar pradesh india.

It was a non violent movement initiated by the women in uttar pradesh s chamoli district now is a part of uttarakhand india for the conservation of forests to maintain ecological balance in the environment. Sunderlal bahuguna was a renowned gandhi follower and he emphasized on the gandhian non violence protest satyagraha. The name of the movement came from a word meaning embrace.

363 bishnois became martyrs cenotaph of martyrs at khejarli in this way many valiant old persons gave away their lives but it failed to have the desired impact. It created a precedent for starting nonviolent protest in india. The movement s major success came in 1980 when an appeal from bahuguna to indian prime minister indira gandhi resulted in a 15 year ban on commercial felling in the uttarakhand himalayas.