Fix Pagarthi Nimnuk Pamel Karmacharioni Mahiti Mokli Apava Babat

Fix Pagarthi Nimnuk Pamel Karmacharioni Mahiti Mokli Apava Babat For many years, however, large areas of these rich forest resources are getting destroyed. For example, theforests ofTehri -Gadhwal were exploited to supply timber for the expanding railway network in the plainsEuropeans in Mussourie wanted cultivation of new food crops like potatoes, leading to large-scale clearing

of mixed oak forests. 'There was dearly a contradiction between the village people's basic needs, and the requirements of the state to earn money. In 1930, the people ofTehri-Gadhwal began a non-cooperation movement called satyagrah a form of peaceful resistance to obtain justice in opposition to the oppressive forest laws. In that year, a large number of people were killed in Tilari by the armed forces of the kingdom ofTehri-Gadhwal, when they formed a protest meeting against official forest policy. Look at the picture. What do you notice? There are some men, women and children embracing the trees.The two men are with saws in their hands. They want to cut down the trees but the people are protecting them. 'They do not allow them to do any harm to the trees as they are emotionally attached to them. It was'Chipko Movement' to save the forests. The movement saved the green forest and protected the envirorunent. Out of the satyagrah movement has grown the post independence Chipko ("hug-a-tree") movement in which villagepeoplehave actuallyput their bodies around trees tostop them from being felled. This grass-roots struggle against commercial cutting of the Himalayan forests of Uttar Pradesh has forced the state government to rethink its strategy. Commercial felling, in fact, is now banned above a height of 1 ooom. But there are large areas of degraded forests, and the Forest Department has failed to reafforest them. As a result, there is now a severe scarcity of animal fodder and domestic fuel, and acute water shortage. The women suffer the most. In many parts of the hills, women now have to walk all day to collect the daily requirements of fodder, fuel and water. Inspired by the Chipko movemen4 the village women have now started to manage and protect local forests, to ensure their regeneration. Under the leadership of Shri Sundar Bahuguna and Shri Chandi Prasad of Tehri Gadhwal District, in Uttaranchal, treelover scame forward tosave the Deodar Forests thatlieontheslopesoftheHimalayas. In this movement, the tree lovers used to embrace the trees to save them from being cut. It was popularly known as the Chipko Movement.