Pratap lost his young son due to a pothole accident some years ago. He decided to turn his pain into a purpose and now social media users are calling him a hero without a cape. For the last three years. Pratap has been filling up potholes in the city to ensure that no one else suffers the same fate. Pratap also starts planting trees in the city as he believes that environment is not simply for use by human beings but needs to be respected and valued. For this, he takes inspiration from a very famous movement in the Uttarakhand region which aimed to conserve forests. He also starts helping the poor in the community and observes that these poor people believe that they will continue to remain poor. Such beliefs have been passed on from one generation to another. He decides to change these beliefs by developing an advertisement in which he shows a pressure cooker that saves fuel and hence can help save money.
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct answer is Option (3) → Chipko movement
The forest cover in the Himalayan Uttarakhand region has been protected through the Chipko movement; ‘chipko’ literally means ‘sticking to’ or hugging trees. The movement aims to conserve forests, prevent landslides and soil erosion, and support the livelihood of the people of the region. It grew in the 1960s, when the indiscriminate felling of trees could not be checked, and became stronger after the devastating floods of 1970.
The Bishnoi community, the other example of this respect for nature, also protects trees by hugging them, but it is a community of Rajasthan, not a movement of Uttarakhand.
Note: The Chipko movement (Box 8.1, ‘The Bishnois and the Chipko Movement’) was there in the chapter ‘Psychology and Life’ of the pre-rationalised NCERT, which NTA followed in 2022, and is not there in the NCERT book (2025-26).
NCERT: Psychology — Chapter 8: Psychology and Life, Box 8.1 (Pre-rationalised)
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