Last updated on June 27th, 2023 at 04:47 pm
On the 9th of January, Nitin Gadkari pays humble tribute to noted environmentalist Padma Vibhushan Sunderlal Bahuguna, founder of the Chipko movement, on his birth anniversary.
Sunderlal Bahuguna Ji, who died on 21 May 2021, was an Indian environmentalist and Chipko movement leader. His wife suggested the idea of the Chipko movement to him. He fought for the preservation of forests in the Himalayas as a member of the Chipko movement in the 1970s and later spearheaded the anti-Tehri Dam movement from the 1980s to early 2004.
He was one of the early environmentalists of India, and later he and others associated with the Chipko movement expanded their focus to include wider environmental issues, such as opposition to large dams.
