The Chipko Movement (1973): Environmental Movement In India
The Chipko Movement (1973): The ‘Chipko Movement’— which focussed world attention on the environmental problems of the Alakananda catchment area in the mid-Western Himalayas– was a movement of the local people to resist the deforestation attempt on the hill slopes in the name of the developmental programme of the area. In 1960, from the point of …