Choose the correct statements about the Chipko movement

A. It began in Uttarakhand

B. Women actively participated in the movement

C. Forest department allotted land to liquor making industry

D. The movement achieved a victory

E. The struggle soon spread across the world

A, B, D only

The correct answer is Option 4 - A, B, D only

The following are the correct statements about the Chipko Movement:

A. It began in Uttarakhand
B. Women actively participated in the movement
D. The movement achieved a victory

Statement C - Forest department allotted land to liquor making industry is incorrect as the forest department allotted the same patch of land to a sports manufacturer not liquor making industry for commercial use.

Statement E - The struggle soon spread across the world is incorrect as the struggle did not spread across the world but only in India.

Chipko Movement:

The movement began in two or three villages of Uttarakhand when the forest department refused permission to the villagers to fell ash trees for making agricultural tools. However, the forest department allotted the same patch of land to a sports manufacturer for commercial use. 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.