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

Explanation

Chipko Andolan. This movement was launched by people of Reni in Garhwal. It was speraheaded by Sunder Lal Bahuguna. The Chipko andolan (.Hug the Trees Movement.) was the result of a grassroots level effort to end the alienation of people from their forests . The movement originated from an incident in a remote village called Reni in Garhwal, high up in the Himalayas during the early 1970.s. There was a dispute between the local villagers and a logging contractor who had been allowed to fell trees in a forest close to the village. On the specific day, the forest contractor.s workers appeared in the forest to cut the trees while the men folk were absent. Undeterred, the women of the village reached the forest quickly and clasped the tree trunks thus preventing the workers from felling the trees. Thus thwarted, the contractor had to withdraw.