Affidavit filed by Chhattisgarh East West Railway Limited in the matter of Sudiep Shrivastava Vs Union of India & Others dated 15/04/2025. The appeal was disposed of by the NGT, April 29, 2019. However, the order was challenged before the Supreme Court (SC). The SC, November 26, 2024 disposed of …
GURUGRAM: A citizens’ group is planning a Gurugram version of ‘Chipko’ movement, on the lines of the one launched in south Delhi recently, to save around 100 trees that are likely to be removed for a proposed revival of Bal Bhawan in Sector 4. On Sunday, some members of the …
No trees would be cut in the process of redevelopment of seven colonies in South Delhi, Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri said today, as he also assured that the national capital's green cover would not be damaged and steps would be taken to enhance it. The housing and urban affairs …
Centre for Science and Environment Director-General Sunita Narain, while urging society and Governments to see Patthalgarhi in the right perspective, has cautioned against painting it as an act that seconds the Naxalism or related ideologies in the country. Speaking at a function organised by ‘Down To Earth’ magazine on Monday …
The Chipko Movement started off under the leadership of Gaura Devi, a middle-aged Bhotia woman, who managed to mobilise about 30 women of her village to step out of their homes and protect the green cover of their lands with their lives. In the early 1970s, when industrial giants attempted …
Nainital/Dehradun: Google commemorated the 45th anniversary of the Chipko movement with a doodle on Monday even as the leader of the campaign termed tree felling for Char Dham road “devastating” to the state. The doodle portrays women, who were at the forefront of the mission and had kept night-long vigils, …
Herald report makes activists sit up and take note of Govt's 'haphazard' planning VASCO: Following a report that appeared in Herald highlighting that 600 trees have been identified by the PWD which may be felled to widen NH17A connecting Cortalim to Vasco via Chicalim, environmentalists and green activists along with …
MAPUSA: A well-known historian and a group of nature lovers led a chipko movement and held a protest to save 200 coconut trees on a 2 km stretch at Guirim on Monday evening. A group of nature lovers headed by well known historian Prajal Sakhardande hugged the coconut tress and …
The Uttarakhand government today said it will institute an environment conservation award named after Chipko movement activist Gaura Devi and urge the Centre to issue a commemorative postage stamp in her honour. Giving the assurance to a delegation of environment activists led by MLA Rajendra Bhandari, Chief Minister Harish Rawat …
The people of Maletha village have alleged that the State Government is harassing them for having non-violently opposed establishment of the five stone crushers sanctioned to operate in their area. Stating that protest leader Sameer Raturi had continued his hunger-strike on the seventh day in the jail on Sunday, the …
Real Assembly of real people took place in Guirim, not Porvorim, historian Prajal. Sakhardande led blockage, joined by scores of ordinary people, who hugged trees Guirim: A well-known historian and teacher and many students taught the Goa government a lesson or two about people power and the strength of protest. …
If the Uttarakhand government has its way, lakhs of chir pines will be cut down in the name of curbing forest fires that have become rampant of late. Foresters in the hill state say have found that the chir, a variety of pine widespread in the lower Himalayas, is responsible …
Seeking green bonus to Uttarakhand in lieu of the state’s environment protection measures, environment and social activists in Uttarakhand today staged a fast at Gandhi Park in Dehradun on the occasion of the second anniversary of the natural disaster. Environmentalists Suresh Bhai, Jagat Singh Junglee, Dr Arvind Darmoda and Dr …
Are 471 trees in Bhilaru village, about four km from the heart of Mussoorie on Kempty Road, set to be felled to make way for a stadium? The proposal to build a stadium in the area was first made in 2003, and is raised every once in a while since …
The President of India Pranab Mukherjee presented the Gandhi Peace Prize for the year 2013 to noted environmentalist leader of Chipko movement and Gandhian from Uttarakhand, Chandi Prasad Bhatt, at the Rashtrapati Bhavan on Tuesday. Speaking on the occasion, the President said, "We must always keep in mind that we …
This paper aims to re-evaluate the Chipko movement (1973-1981), a forest protection movement in the Uttarakhand hill region in northern India, which became widely known throughout the world through its image of local people hugging trees. Although the Chipko movement became famous as a good example of the “environmentalism of …
This assessment of forest tenure systems in South Asia focuses on current state of tenure and the relationship between tenure security and sustainable forest management and livelihood opportunities. This assessment report follows the conceptual framework developed by the Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI) in a publication - From Exclusion to …
Environmentalist Vandana Shiva on Chipko movement I became a volunteer as a young student in the Chipko movement of the 1970s which I think shaped our contemporary history very strongly. But Chipko wasn't the first. Centuries ago, there had been another such movement in Rajasthan where Amrita Devi refused to …
As the world’s largest multi-ethnic democracy, India has a federal constitution that is well-equipped with administrative devices that offer apparent recognition and measures of self-governance to territorially concentrated ethnic groups. This article analyzes how demands for political autonomy—or statehood—within the federal system have been used as a frame for social …
Industrial tree plantations for wood, palm oil and rubber are generating an increasing number of confl icts between companies and local populations. Relying on a wide-ranging literature review, this article analyses the alleged impacts of such plantations, the protesters involved, and the modalities of the confl icts. It fi nds …
