What was the main aim of the Chipko movement?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct answer is Option (3) → To protect forests from being cut
The Chipko movement began in the Himalayan region of present-day Uttarakhand in the early 1970s. Village people, many of them women, hugged trees (chipko means “to cling”) to stop them from being cut by contractors and to save the forests on which their lives depended.