Question

Assertion (A): The famous ‘Chipko Movement’ in the Himalayas successfully resisted deforestation in several areas.

Reason (R): Through this, community afforestation campaign with indigenous species was made enormously successful.

विकल्प

• Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).

• Both (A) and (R) are true, and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).

• (A) is true, but (R) is false.

• (A) is false, but (R) is true.

Answer 1

Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).

Explanation:

• Assertion (A) is true because the Chipko Movement was indeed focused on preventing deforestation in the Himalayas by engaging local communities to embrace and protect trees from being cut down.
• Reason (R) is true as community afforestation with indigenous species can be a successful environmental conservation strategy. However, the primary goal and action of the Chipko Movement were to resist deforestation through protest, particularly by hugging trees to prevent them from being cut down, rather than directly initiating afforestation campaigns.