In the given question, a statement of Assertion is followed by a statement of Reason. Mark the correct answer.

Assertion: Women’s active participation in the Chipko movement was a very novel aspect of the movement.

Reason: Women held sustained agitations against the habit of alcoholism and broadened the agenda of the movement to cover other social issues.

Both the Assertion and the Reason are true and the Reason is the correct explanation of the Assertion

Women’s active participation in the Chipko agitation was a very novel aspect of the movement. The forest contractors of the region usually doubled up as suppliers of alcohol to men. Women held sustained agitations against the habit of alcoholism and broadened the agenda of the movement to cover other social issues. The movement achieved a victory when the government issued a ban on felling of trees in the Himalayan regions for fifteen years, until the green cover was fully restored. But more than that, the Chipko movement, which started over a single issue, became a symbol of many such popular movements emerging in different parts of the country during the 1970s and later.