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Chandi Prasad Bhatt (born 23 June 1934) is an Indian environmentalist and social activist, who founded Dasholi Gram Swarajya Sangh (DGSS) in Gopeshwar in 1964, which later became a mother-organization to the Chipko Movement, in which he was one of the pioneers.
Dec 20, 2018 · Chandi Prasad Bhatt, widely admired as the pioneer of the Chipko Andolan, is among them. The Chipko movement of the 1970s, which resulted in Himalayan villagers successfully saving their...
Aug 20, 2022 · Almost half a century after the launch of the Chipko Movement—one of independent India’s most famous non-violent social movements that drew global attention to the need for protecting...
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Aug 8, 2023 · The expression of the word ‘Chipko’ was heard first on March 27, 1973 from an agitated Chandi Prasad Bhatt, a Gandhian environmentalist and social activist, when Symonds Company loggers arrived in Gopeshwar.
Mar 26, 2024 · A year earlier, in March 1973, in the nearby village of Mandal, women and men had come together to prevent the felling of trees under the leadership of a local activist, Chandi Prasad Bhatt,...
Mar 23, 2024 · Some years ago, Chandi Prasad Bhatt published his autobiography in Hindi. This has now been translated into English by Samir Banerjee under the title, Gentle Resistance. Bhatt was born in 1934, when India was still a colony of the British.
Sir Chandi Prasad Bhatt is an octogenarian Indian Gandhian environmentalist. He’s a social activist who actively contributed to the Chipko Movement and stands proud as Ramon Magsaysay Awardee for Community Leadership, 1982 and Padma Bhushan Awardee, 2005.
