In the mid-1970s, the Chipko movement had started to spread. State officials were perplexed and believed it would all die down soon – the power of the state includes its capacity for patience ...

But this fractured vision obscures individuals whose lives have linked the two spheres. Chandi Prasad Bhatt, widely admired as the pioneer of the Chipko Andolan, is among them. The Chipko movement ...

Noted environmentalist, Chandi Prasad Bhatt, who received the prestigious Gandhi Peace prize from President Pranab Mukherjee on Tuesday said that he would relentlessly continue to work for the ...

Ailing but agile, Bhatt, a Padma awardee and associate of the founder of the Chipko movement, Sunderlal Bahuguna, speaks with great difficulty. In fact, his eyes speak more than his words ...

For his contribution towards the environment and society through Gandhian philosophy, noted environmentalist and pioneer of the Chipko movement, Chandi Prasad Bhatt, has been selected for the ...

Chandi Prasad Bhatt said that in 2010 he had written to the then environment minister warning against the adverse effects of the project. "Had my advice been heeded, the loss of lives and ...

All these encomiums are directed towards Chandi Prasad Bhatt, the activist who started an environment movement of, by and for the people. Bringing Bhatt and his yeoman contribution to the ...

environmentalist Chandi Prasad Bhatt said on Monday. Yet another effort has been made by the state government for a scientific study with the help of satellite imagery of the crisis in the sinking ...

Environmentalist and social activist Chandi Prasad Bhatt was presented the Gandhi Peace Prize by President Pranab Mukherjee at a function in Rashtrapati Bhavan here on Tuesday. “The Prize is an ...

Last week, the great pioneering environmentalist, Chandi Prasad Bhatt, was given the Gandhi peace prize, awarded annually by the government of India. I should perhaps have said technically awarded ...

Dehradun (Uttarakhand) [India], August 14 (ANI): Uttrakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami called Chandi Prasad Bhatt, at Chief Minister's residence on Monday. Chandi Prasad Bhatt was ...

said Magsaysay awardee Chandi Prasad Bhatt on Monday. According to the 87-year-old environmentalist, who was a Chipko movement leader, projects like the Rishi Ganga hydel project, which bore the ...