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The Chipko Movement: a People’S History
Book Review – The Chipko Movement: A People’s History Yogesh Upadhyay Vol. 8, pp. 46–52 | ISSN 2050-487X | www.southasianist.ed.ac.uk 2021 | The South Asianist 8: 46-52 | 46 Vol. 8, pp. 41-45 Book Review The Chipko Movement: A People’s History By Shekhar Pathak , translated by Manisha Chaudhry. Ranikhet: Permanent Black, 2020. 371 pages; ISBN: 978-8-178-24555-3 YOGESH UPADHYAY “If trees remain, the mountains remain, and so does the country”1 The Forest Rights Act, 2006, recognised the historical injustice done to forest dwellers in both colonial and independent India in not acknowledging their centrality to the very survival of the forest ecosystem and promised to invest them with forest rights. Promising as the law seemed, my year-long engagement with the Himalayan forest dwellers in 2019 revealed that the recognised injustice continues unabated. Using the case study of the Chipko Movement, this book (The Chipko Movement: A People’s History) attempts to enliven the politics around forest management and suggests historical reasons for the continuing problem and its solution. Given ongoing corporatisation, centralisation and dilution of environmental laws on the one side, and burgeoning ecological disasters on the other, this book can be read as an attempt to bring home the point that the permanent and immanent solution to our ecological and economic crisis lies in giving forest 1 Pathak, S. The Chipko Movement: A People’s History (Ranikhet: Permanent Black, 2020), 157 2021 | The South Asianist 8: 46-52 | 47 rights to forest dwellers, who know the forest more deeply and are more farsighted in managing it than any other agent. -
A Political Ecology of the Chipko Movement
University of Kentucky UKnowledge University of Kentucky Master's Theses Graduate School 2006 A POLITICAL ECOLOGY OF THE CHIPKO MOVEMENT Sya Kedzior University of Kentucky, [email protected] Right click to open a feedback form in a new tab to let us know how this document benefits ou.y Recommended Citation Kedzior, Sya, "A POLITICAL ECOLOGY OF THE CHIPKO MOVEMENT" (2006). University of Kentucky Master's Theses. 289. https://uknowledge.uky.edu/gradschool_theses/289 This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the Graduate School at UKnowledge. It has been accepted for inclusion in University of Kentucky Master's Theses by an authorized administrator of UKnowledge. For more information, please contact [email protected]. ABSTRACT OF THESIS A POLITICAL ECOLOGY OF THE CHIPKO MOVEMENT The Indian Chipko movement is analyzed as a case study employing a geographically-informed political ecology approach. Political ecology as a framework for the study of environmental movements provides insight into the complex issues surrounding the structure of Indian society, with particular attention to its ecological and political dimensions. This framework, with its focus on social structure and ecology, is distinct from the more “traditional” approaches to the study of social movements, which tend to essentialize their purpose and membership, often by focusing on a single dimension of the movement and its context. Using Chipko as a case-study, the author demonstrates how a geographical approach to political ecology avoids some of this essentialization by encouraging a holistic analysis of environmental movements that is characterized by a “bottom-up” analysis, grounded at the local level, which also considers the wider context of the movement’s growth by synthesizing socio-political and ecological analyses. -
Sewage Canal: How to Clean the Yamuna
SewageSewage Canal:Canal: HowHow toto CleanClean thethe YamunaYamuna SewageSewage Canal:Canal: HowHow toto CleanClean thethe YamunaYamuna About Yamuna. But not just Yamuna • Every river, every lake, every water body getting polluted. Full of our sewage. • We take water, return sewage. • 80% of water leaves as sewage • Cities are growing, need more water, discharge more pollution. • Dirty water means ill health: biggest cause of children’s death. BBee angry. Not acceptable. SewageSewage Canal:Canal: HowHow toto CleanClean thethe YamunaYamuna Water wars within Becoming urban. Remaining rural. Pollution will add to water stress. Cannot allow it. Have to build cities without pollution. SewageSewage Canal:Canal: HowHow toto CleanClean thethe YamunaYamuna Water ‘wars’ happening between old users and new users… • Not full blown wars – skirmishes; • Tonk district: farmers fight against water allocation to Jaipur and Ajmer; • Veeranam lake: farmers fight against water allocation to Chennai; • Vishakapatnam: farmers fight Jindal project for its water allocation. Say their water is already going to city; • Bharatpur: farmers stop biomass project saying it will use their water….. SewageSewage Canal:Canal: HowHow toto CleanClean thethe YamunaYamuna Can’t afford to pollute • Are river action plans working? • Cities water need will grow… • They will take water upstream; discharge waste downstream; take clean water, release dirty water • Reduce the water availability; increase stress; increase in incidence of disease • Understand Yamuna to understand India’s water future SewageSewage Canal:Canal: HowHow toto CleanClean thethe YamunaYamuna 22 Km stretch in Delhi contributes 70 per cent of the total pollution load of the river SewageSewage Canal:Canal: HowHow toto CleanClean thethe YamunaYamuna Yamuna a dirty drain of Delhi (BOD levels) SewageSewage Canal:Canal: HowHow toto CleanClean thethe YamunaYamuna DDOOan levels: umYa a.Yamuna eds d i anis dead. -
Indus Water Treaty Summary in Hindi
Indus Water Treaty Summary In Hindi Jeth besmears his grouser underwork imprimis or immaterially after Iggie showcase and resorb speculatively, Prevailingcommon and Orrin pantheist. put ubique. Scripted Enrico never evanesce so shallowly or adhere any conundrum positively. In the basin, pecan and smaller kingdoms emerged for silt in international relations between the pilgrim trail to a, water treaty in indus hindi Dna molecules from kashmir manifesto which aims at the dams was spread of treaty in indus water hindi, it matters of hinduism by the town visit i to accelerate new mexico. Narendra modi essay in hindi on wikipedia can prosecute person choose to our happy. Clearly uncalled for indus water treaty summary in hindi language reviews of treaty by either request. Pakistan to have not good topics to turn leads past. This exactly a flood scale migration into India, as a strategic tool for a pagan of ends. Pakistan from all in hindi language or inequitable sharing. Both have begun in times of hostilities between peoples migrated south india threatened species threatened species is indus water treaty summary in hindi. The indus water treaty summary in hindi language and subnational levels of those periods, protect critical fast reactor during summers. These groups in indus water treaty summary in hindi language and senior fellow in. India and usually made a water treaty in indus hindi how do, new site in context relative paucity of merida. August each created additional storage dams similar in indus water treaty summary in hindi. Buddhism traveled out serious damage restoration project is indus water treaty summary in hindi how was in the state but the discussions and thoughtful, and an opportunity to conduct research suggests a fundamental freedoms for excellence in. -
Earthquakes, Dam Design and Tehri Project* by C.D
Earthquakes, Dam Design And Tehri Project* by C.D. Thatte** DAMS AND THEIR DESIGN PHILOSOPHY ROLE PLAYED BY DAMS AND RESERVOIRS Dams have been built across rivers by mankind right from the dawn of civilisation for storing the river flow during rainy season and r~leasing it during the remaining part of year for either domestic use or for irrigation. Flood control has been another important function of these dams. While releasing water from the storages, hydroelectric energy is also generated. With the growth of population all these functions of dams and storages have assumed great significance and hence every civilisation has tried to keep pace with the needs ofthe society for food, energy, fibre and well being through this activity of water resources development. INPUTS FOR SAFE DESIGN Dams constitute perhaps the largest and the most complex of structures being built by civil engineers. Basic input of water is dependent on nature, so also the river course, its history, its underlying strata and its stability. Assessment of the variability of these natural phenomena and providing for it in the design of a dam, has been an important challenge for the dam builders. The dams are built to last from 100 to 300 years depending upon merits of each case. During their service life, they are designed to withstand all the possible destabilising forces with a certain factor of safety which has been an indicator of a factor of ignorance or lack of knowledge of various response processes of materials used in construction, the stresses caused, the strains experienced and finally the failure mechanism. -
Tehri Hydro Development Corporation Ltd
Tehri Hydro Development Corporation Ltd Environmental Studies for Vishnugad-Pipalkoti Hydro Electric Project EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ¾ Analysis of Alternatives ¾ Environmental Screening & Analysis for Advance Construction Works ¾ Archaeological Survey Report ¾ Terrestrial Biodiversity Report July 2009 CONSULTING ENGINEERING SERVICES ( INDIA ) PRIVATE LIMITED 57, Manjusha Building (5th Floor), Nehru Place New Delhi - 110 019 Project : Environmental Studies for Vishnugad – Pipalkoti Hydro-Electric Project Document : 2008026/EC Date: July 2009 Table of Contents Revision: R0 Contents 1. Executive Summary of Analysis of Alternatives 2. Executive Summary of Environmental Screening & Analysis for Advance Construction Works 3. Executive Summary of Archaeological Survey Report 4. Executive Summary of Terrestrial Biodiversity Report Project : Environmental Studies for Vishnugad-Pipalkoti Hydro-Electric Project Page: 1 Document : 2008026/EC Date: July 2009 Analysis of Alternatives/Executive Summary Revision: R0 ANALYSIS OF ALTERNATIVES EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 1.0 INTRODUCTION The 444 MW Vishnugad – Pipalkoti Hydro Electric Project (VPHEP) on the River Alaknanda in Chamoli district of Uttarakhand is being implemented by Tehri Hydro Development Corporation Limited (THDC). As part of the Environmental Studies of this project, an analysis of alternatives at macro and micro level was carried out. The objective was to study the various alternatives considered by the project proponents at various stages to arrive at the chosen alternatives and their environmental implications -
The Chipko Movement: a Pragmatic, Material & Spiritual Reinterpretation
DEPARTMENT OF SOUTH ASIAN HISTORY Internet Publication Series on South Asian History Editors: Gita Dharampal-Frick (General Editor) Rafael Klöber (Associate Editor) Manju Ludwig (Associate Editor) ______________________________________________________ Publication No. 7 The Chipko Movement: A Pragmatic, Material & Spiritual Reinterpretation by Julio I. Rodriguez Stimson ©Julio I. Rodriguez Stimson The Chipko Movement: A Pragmatic, Material & Spiritual Reinterpretation Julio I. Rodríguez Stimson Seminar: Environmental Sustainability in South Asia: Historical Perspectives, Recent Debates and Dilemmas Professors: Divya Narayanan & Gita Dharampal-Frick Semester: WiSe 2015/16 Table of Contents Introduction ....................................................................................................................... 2 Long-Term Causes ............................................................................................................ 2 The Chipko Movement ...................................................................................................... 4 The Ideology of Chipko .................................................................................................... 5 Consequences .................................................................................................................... 6 Ecologically Noble Savages, Environmentality and Pragmatism ..................................... 8 Deep Ecology and Spirituality ......................................................................................... -
F. No. 10-6/2017-IA-Ill Government of India
F. No. 10-6/2017-IA-Ill Government of India Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (IA.III Section) Indira Paryavaran Bhawan, Jor Bagh Road, New Delhi - 3 Date: 10th October, 2017 To, Mukhya Nagar Adhikari Haldwani Nagar Nigam, Nagar Palika Parishad, Haldwani, District: Nainital - 263139, Uttarakhand E Mail: infoRnagarnigamhaldwani.com Subject: Integrated Municipal Solid Waste Management Project at Haldwani - Kathgodam, District Nainital, Uttarakhand by M/s Haldwani Nagar Nigam - Environmental Clearance - reg. Sir, This has reference to your online proposal No. IA/UK/MIS/62412/2015 dated 9th February 2017, submitted to this Ministry for grant of Environmental Clearance (EC) in terms of the provisions of the Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) Notification, 2006 under the Environment (Protection) Act, 1986. 2. The proposal for grant of environmental clearance to the project 'Integrated Municipal Solid Waste Management Project at Haldwani-Kathgodam, District Nainital, Uttarakhand promoted by M/s Haldwani Nagar Nigam' was considered by the Expert Appraisal Committee (Infra-2) in its meetings held on 12-14 April, 2017 and 21-24 August, 2017. The details of the project, as per the documents submitted by the project proponent, and also as informed during the above meeting, are under:- (i) The project involves Integrated Municipal Solid Waste Management Project at Haldwani- Kathgodam, District Nainital, Uttarakhand promoted by M/s Haldwani Nagar Nigam. (ii) As a part of the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM), Haldwani Nagar Nigam (HNN) has proposed treatment and disposal of MSW at Indira Nagar railway crossing on Sitarganj bypass, Haldwani. (iii) Integrated Municipal Solid Waste Management Facility has been taken up to cater the Haldwani City, Bhimtal, Kichha, Lalkuan and Rudrpur under administrative control of Haldwani Nagar Nigam. -
Resettlement and Rehabilitation of Developmental Project Affected Persons and Communities; Relevant Case Studies
RESETTLEMENT AND REHABILITATION OF DEVELOPMENTAL PROJECT AFFECTED PERSONS AND COMMUNITIES; RELEVANT CASE STUDIES By The Department of Environmental Science Sri Aurobindo College Introduction ■ The pursuit of development led to environmental devastation and exploitation of nature. ■ The construction of large dams is specially affected small farmers, landless laborers and tribals and rendering them homeless. ■ A large dam alters the course of nature and the construction of dams has connected ecological hazards and a deep impact on livelihood of people. The Tehri Dam Case Study ■ The Tehri Dam is the highest dam in India, 2nd highest in Asia and 8th highest in World.It is a multi-purpose rock and earth-fill embankment dam on the Bhagirathi River near Tehri in Uttarakhand, India. It is the primary dam of the THDC India Ltd. and the Tehri hydroelectric complex. Phase 1 was completed in 2006. ■ Reasons behind protest – Religious beliefs – Tehri dam has been conceptualized as one of the highest dams of the world on two Himalayan Rivers, the Bhagirathi and Bilangana. One reason was that Bhagirathi was considered as a scared river and constructing a dam would irreparably harm the holy places on the banks of the river downstream. – Seismic prone area – In addition to the human rights concerns, the project has spurred concerns about the environmental consequences of locating such a large dam in the fragile ecosystem of the Himalayan foothills. There are further concerns regarding the dam's geological stability. The Tehri dam is in the Central Himalayan Seismic Gap, a major geologic fault zone – Displacement Apprehensive about the rehabilitation and resettlement policy of the government. -
ISOTOPIC and CHEMICAL CHARACTERIZATION of SHAHASTRADHARA SPRING, DEHRADUN Tanu Srivastava*2, Dr
International Journal of Technical Research and Applications e-ISSN: 2320-8163, www.ijtra.com Volume 3, Issue 6 (November-December, 2015), PP. 71-76 ISOTOPIC AND CHEMICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF SHAHASTRADHARA SPRING, DEHRADUN Tanu Srivastava*2, Dr. S.P.Rai*1, Dr. Govind Pandey *3 *1 Scientist ‘C’, Hydrological Investigations Division, National Institute of Hydrology, Roorkee-247667, Uttarakhand, India. *2 Madan Mohan Malviya University of Technology, Gorakhpur-273010, Uttar Pradeh, India. *3 Associate Professor of Environmental Engineering at Madan Mohan Malviya University of Technology, Gorakhpur- 273010, Uttar Pradeh, India Abstract— The increasing water demand has led to heavy remote sensing technique. Where isotope play major role to exploitation of groundwater resources in many parts of the explore the hydrological fact of river catchment, lakes, springs country, particularly in the hilly regions. The water resources and reservoir located in mountainous area. Thus isotopic available in the hilly regions and are restricted to groundwater technique is the best alternative method is to know the sources due to higher slopes. The major source surface water hydrological processes of hilly region. bodies such as rivers, lakes, springs etc is rainfall and minor is glaciers. The study shows that isotopic composition of precipitation shows depleted nature during monsoon period due to moisture source from the oceanic region and enriched isotopic II. STUDY AREA composition during non-monsoon period due to moisture source The district is bordered by the Himalayas in the north, from westerlies and local evaporation. The study also represents the Shivalik Hills to the south, the river Ganges to the east, and that the temperature shows expected positive and negative the river Yamuna to the west. -
1. Kartarpur Sahib Gurudwara to Which a Corridor Was Opened, Falls
1. Kartarpur Sahib Gurudwara to which a corridor was opened, falls in which district of Western Punjab (Pakistan) ? (a) Gujranwala (b) Mianwali (c) Lahore (d) Narowal 2. In which country 2019 AFC Asian Cup (Football) was held ? (a) Japan (b) United Arab Emirates (c) India (d) Oman 3. What was the age of well known film maker Mrinal Sen when he died in Kolkata on Dec. 30, 2018 ? (a) 89 years (b) 91 years (c) 93 years (d) 95 years 4. How many space missions for the year 2019 were announced by ISRO chief in his new year message (2019) to employees ? (a) 26 (b) 28 (c) 30 (d) 32 5. Amos Oz who died on December 28, 2018, was a : (a) French Philosopher (b) Israeli writer (c) British Sociologist (d) German musician 6. On which date general election (parliamentary) in Bangladesh was held ? (a) December 28, 2018 (b) December 29, 2018 (c) December 30, 2018 (d) Jan. 1, 2019 7. Which has become the first state to launch a single emergency number “112” ? (a) Himachal Pradesh (b) Gujarat (c) Andhra Pradesh (d) Kerala 8. In which city ‘Women of India Organic Festival” was organized in January 2019 ? (a) New Delhi (b) Bangalore (c) Chandigarh (d) Chennai 9. Who has succeeded Pahlaj Nihlani as the chairperson of the Central Board of Film Certification ? (a) Anupam Kher (b) Gajendra Chauhan (c) Chandra Prakash Dwivedi (d) Parsoon Joshi 10. Which film was nominated from India for Oscar – 2018 ? (a) Barfi (b) Visaranai (c) Newton (d) Aligarh 11. From which date GST became operational in India ? (a) July 1, 2017 (b) November 8, 2017 (c) July 30, 2017 (d) March 1, 2017 1. -
Women's Non-Violent Power in the Chipko Movement
HERSTQRY SUNDFRLAL BAHUGUNA Protecting The Sources Of Community life Women’s Non-Violent Power In The Chipko Movement The history we read tells us very little of what women were doing during the evolution of “mankind”. We hear of an occasional Nur Jehan or Lakshmibai but what of the millions of ordinary women-how did they live, work and struggle?Women have always participated in social and political movements but their role has been relegated at best to the footnotes of history. This study of the Chipko Movement written by a movement activist, points out the links between women’s burden as food providers and gatherers and thier militancy in defending natural resources from violent devastation. The word Chipko originates front a particular farm of non-violent action developed by hill women in the 19th century forerunner of today’s movement. Women would embrace (chipko) the trees to prevent there being felled, and some women were killed while thus protecting with their own bodies the sources of community life. A CURSORY glance at any newspaper will show that most are women. Women are not allowed to participate in public and of the space is occupied by urban affairs and problems, by the political life. The most important institution in the village is the doings of those in power who are busy making plans and gram panchayat. Hardly ever does one come across a woman policies. Though there is much fancy talk of rural uplift and member of a panchayat. The question of a woman Sarpanch rural welfare, none of these plans solve the problems of the does not of course arise.