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Please refer to the framework below guided by the questions below. You do not have to address all questions but your answer must be cohesive and not in points.

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The government allotted a plot of forest to open a sports company, whereas they denied the use of agricultural tools to the villagers. Moreover, The villagers had protested against the felling of trees – Supported by Mr Sunderlal Baghuguna and other people. Female activists from Uttrakhand played vital roles including Gaura devi, Suruksha Devi and Sudesha.
Also, the government of India, by sending contractors.
The goal of this movement was to save nature by not felling tress. This protest was only supposed to stay in the village, but it spread to nearby cities, and went through all of India.
It also led to the Prime Minister Indira Gandhi made a bill in which Himalayan areas were banned for 15 years for cutting forests. Afterwards, the Chipko movement spread to the states of East, Central, and South of India.

Chipko was a Redemptive movement.

- Jay, Bhumika & Aarush

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What has changed?

1. Thousands of trees were not cut for the urbanization

2. Reformed nature conservation laws

What has remained the same?

1. Many trees and areas are being affected or deforested for urbanization

Who has benefitted from this change?

1. Farmers, villagers, people who lived in an untouched environment

2. Nature

3. Reputation of the government

Who has not benefitted from this change?

1. Companies and governments that need land for development because the main reasons for cutting down trees was the need for land. This would affect the economy and development of the area

Reformative social movement

Because the movement didn’t include specific people, it included anybody who wanted to participate, and the issue also impacts many lives, and not a lifestyle

They asked for a reformation of laws that protect nature

Jehanvi & Prisha

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How does the past help us make sense of the present?

The past tells us what has happened before us and what we should do to survive, and tells us what our mistakes were and gives us an opportunity to fix our mistakes and become better human beings.

How is the past similar to the present?-

Human thinking has not changed, trees are still being cut because of industrialization, but even today there still are activists who have a rational thought process which protest for the banishment of deforestation, as large rainforests are being replaced by concrete forests.

How is the past different from the present?-

There was less knowledge among people about the importance of environmental sustainability, but the emotional connect which they had with the environment made them sacrifice their own lives to save the forests in their village. Nowadays, we have become more materialistic and greedy individuals, and the connect which we once had with the environment has broken. The reason for this would be rapid urbanisation and industrialization in areas.

What can we learn from the past?

We can analyse that in the past the people had a true understanding of nature and they were well educated to comprehend to look at the benefits of sustaining ecology.

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How did people in past view their work?
Chipko movement, also called Chipko andolan, nonviolent social and ecological movement by rural villagers, particularly women, in India in the 1970s, aimed at protecting trees and forests slated for government-backed logging. As it has been clearly stated that particularly women were part of the non-violent movement suggesting that  women had gained some power and were able to influence a change in the society.

What value ,skill and forms of knowledge did people need to succeed?
Above all, it stirred up the existing civil society in India, which began to address the issues of tribal and marginalized people.The Chipko Andolan is a movement that practised methods of Satyagraha where both male and female activists

How did their worldview affect their choices and action?

Grahas throughout India as a protest against the reservation of forests for exclusive exploitation by British commercial interests and its concomitant transformation a common resource into a commodity. Villagers ceremonially removed forest products from the reserved forests to assert their right to satisfy their basic needs. The forest satyagrahas were especially successful in regions where survival of the local population was intimately linked with access to the forests, as in the Himalaya, the Western Ghats, and the Central Indian hills. These non-violent protests were suppressed by the British rulers. In Central India, Gond tribals were gunned down for participating in the satyagraha. protest the Forest Laws of the rulers. After enormous loss of life, the satyagrahas were successful in reviving some of the traditional rights of the village communities to various forest products. This, however, did not mean that satisfaction of the basic requirements of the people, or the ecological role of the forests, replaced the revenue maximizing objectives as the guiding principle of British forest management in India.
By- bhat , khatter, panwar

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how did the past decisions or actions affect future choices?

their act of conversing and preserving the forests, led to many more resistances among other states in the Himalaya

how did decisions or actions narrow or eliminate choices for people?

the decision of hugging the trees to protect them from being felled led to the government banning the felling of trees as they didn’t have many choices or things that they could do against the villagers who were resisting

how did decisions or actions significantly transform people’s lives?

their decisions significantly transformed people’s lives because they were able to conserve the forests and had a major victory where they had a 15 year ban of fellings of forests. ‘ecology is permanent economy’ as they were being generally benefited from the forests and prevented deforestation.