CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -One of the prominent Chipko leaders, Gandhian Sunderlal Bahuguna, took a 5, 000 kilometre (3000 mile) trans-Himalaya foot march in 1981–83, spreading the Chipko message to a far greater area.

Detailed explanation-2: -It was popularised by Sunderlal Bahuguna, leader of the famous Chipko forest conservation movement, that had men and women of Uttarakhand villages hug trees to protect them from the axe.

Detailed explanation-3: -For example, Bahuguna famously fasted for two weeks in 1974 to protest forest policy. In 1978, in the Advani forest in the Tehri Garhwal district, Chipko activist Dhoom Singh Negi fasted to protest the auctioning of the forest, while local women tied sacred threads around the trees and read from the Bhagavadgita.

Detailed explanation-4: -Chipko movement was started under the eminent leadership of Sunderlal Bahuguna. The famous Chipko Andolan of Uttarakhand in the Himalayas inspired the villagers of the Uttara Kannada district of Karnataka Province in southern India to launch a similar movement to save their forests.

Detailed explanation-5: -Sunderlal Bahuguna, a noted environmentalist who initiated the Chipko Movement, was born on January 9, 1927.