The

Chipko
Movement
•In what way can literature and
environmental science meet and
benefit from each other?
• What can you do to help preserve
trees in your community?
Unlocking of Vocabulary:
•felling (n.): relates to the process of
cutting and drowning trees
•spontaneous (adj.): natural
• Chipko (Hindi)- embracing
• To hug, to cling to
• Read the historical background of
Chipko movement from the book
page 454.
•Read the article entitled “The
Chipko Movement” on pages 455-
456.
What was the advocacy of The Chipko
Movement the time it was established?

• It aims to protect trees and

forests slated for government-
backed logging led by the
rural villagers particularly
women, in India in the 1970s.
When and where did the Chipko
Movement start?
• In modern India, Chipko Movement started in April
1973 in Uttar Pradesh's Mandal village in the upper
Alakananda valley. Soon it spread to other Himalayan
districts of the state. The Chipko Movement was
triggered by a government decision to allot forest land
to a sports goods company. Angered by the move,
villagers formed circles around the trees to prevent
them from being cut. 

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What angered the villagers that
caused the uprising among them?
• The Chipko Movement was triggered by a government
decision to allot forest land to a sports goods company.
Angered by the move, villagers formed circles around
the trees to prevent them from being cut. The Chipko
Movement, leaded by local women, was spearheaded
by Chand Chandi Prasad Bhatt and his NGO Dasholi
Gram Swarajya Sangh. 

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What is the Chipko slogan that was
coined by Mr. Sunderlal Bahuguna?
What does the slogan mean?

• “Ecology is permanent economy.”

What were the benefits that
Chipko Movement has realized
because of its advocacy?
•  Mr. Chandi Prasad Bhatt encouraged the
development of local industries based on the
conversation and sustainable use of forest wealth
for local benefit.
• Mr. Ghanasyam Raturi, Chipko poet, whose songs
echo throughout the Himalayas of Uttar Pradesh,
wrote a poem describing the method of
embracing the trees to save them from felling:
"Embrace the trees and Save them from being
felled; The property of our hills, Save them from
being looted."
Fact and Belief
• A FACT is something known to exist
or to have happened, and it can be
verified. A fact may involve
numbers, dates, testimonies, etc.
• A BELIEF is an opinion based on
cultural or personal faith, morality
or values.
TIMELINE
• It refers to the structure used in
arranging chronologically the
important events in a story or in a
character’s life.
FLASHBACK and JUXTAPOSITION
• FLASHBACK is a technique for rearranging the
chronological events of a story.

• JUXTAPOSITION is a technique where two images,

two events, two settings, etc. that do not normally
go together are placed next to each other to create
a disorienting contrast or to suggest a connection
or similarity that is not normally considered.
• What is the importance of
distinguishing a fact and a belief in
real life situations?
• What is the importance of the
organization skills and the
motivation to write?
• What can you do to help preserve
trees in our country?
A: Answer the following
questions in your own words:
1. What is the Chipko Movement?
2. When to say if it is a fact or a belief?
3. What is a timeline?
4. What is the difference between a flashback
and juxtaposition?
5. How will you influence your fellows to help
preserve the environment?
B. Mending Wall
1. What two causes of gaps in the wall does the
speaker of the poem identify?
2. Who initiates the annual fixing of the wall?
3. How do the two characters go about fixing the
wall? What do they do to fix it?
4. How does the speaker of the poem feel about the
wall? Use examples from the text to explain your
answer.
5. What does "Good fences make good neighbors"
mean?
1. What two causes of gaps in the wall does the
speaker of the poem identify? (winter and
hunters)
2. Who initiates the annual fixing of the wall? (the
speaker of the poem)
3. How do the two characters go about fixing the
wall? What do they do to fix it? (They walk along
together and put the stones that have fallen
down back into the gaps left in the wall.)
4. How does the speaker of the poem feel about the
wall? Use examples from the text to explain your
answer. (The speaker believes the wall is
unnecessary. He mentions how walls are used to
separate livestock and land, but explains that
neither of those reasons is valid in this particular
situation.)
5. What does "Good fences make good neighbors"
References:
• Gonzales, Carolina T. et.al, Essential English. Rex
Book Store, 2017, pp. 454-460
• https://
www.indiatoday.in/education-today/gk-current-aff
airs/story/sunderlal-bahuguna-952506-2017-01-09
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