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    • The home of Chipko movement, now epicentre of disasters and relocation challenges

      Located at an altitude of about 3,000 metres, just below the Nanda Devi glaciers, Raini (or Reni) is situated in Chamoli district of the northern state, close to the China border.

    • Remembering Sunderlal Bahuguna, one of the architects of the Chipko movement

      Padma Vibhushan Sunderlal Bahuguna began the Chipko Andolan with Chandi Prasad Bhatt and Gaura Devi in the 1970s. Twenty years later, he spearheaded the Anti-Tehri Dam movement.

    • Chipko movement pioneer, Sunderlal Bahuguna dies due to COVID-19

      His condition turned critical last night and his death was declared at 12.05 pm by AIIMS Rishikesh Director, Ravikant

    • Opposition unity efforts are like Chipko movement: Yogi Adityanath

      "A sort of Chipko movement is presently underway in the state,” he said, invoking the environment conservation movement in which volunteers hugged trees.

    • Progress of Women's movement in India

      A lawyer and a Gandhian, she was the head of the women‘s wing of the textile labour association in 1971 when she realized that self-employed women who work in Ahmedabad Crafts market had erratic wages and little recourse to law.

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