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Great Indian Movements
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JANUARY Narmada Bachao Andolan Narmada Bachao Andolan is a social movement consisting of adivasis, farmers, environmentalists and human right activists against a number of large dams built across the Narmada river.
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February Save the Western Ghats In October 1986, Peaceful Society organised a national consultation on environment, during which it was decided to organize a march along the entire length of the Western Ghats. The goal was to create an integrated Ecological perspective.
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MARCH Target Soft Drinks Centre for Science and Environment acknowledged that all Indian soft drink brands contained high levels of pesticidesowing to the presence of chemicals in countryÂ’s groundwater. The organisation chose to target Coca Cola and Pepsi because they accounted for the majority of bottled soft drinks consumed in India.
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APRIL Silent Valley Movement A remarkable peopleÂ’s movement saved a pristine moist evergreen forest from being destroyed by a hydroelectric plant. The battle raged for over 10 years and involved thousands of people who did not even live in the vicinity of the area that was to be destroyed.
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MAY Save Ganga Movement Save Ganga Movement is a widespread Gandhian non-violent movement supported by saints and popular social activists across Uttar Pradesh and Bihar in support of a free Ganga.
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JUNE Development Alternatives Development Alternatives is a non-profit organisation established in 1983 that promotes sustainable national development. It focuses on the inter relationships between social and environmental factors, particularly between nature, machines, institutions and people.
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JULY Baliapal Movement The people of Baliapal and Bhograi area spontaneously and sharply reacted against the establishment of missile base. Their struggle was also a fight to attain global peace.
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August The Chipko Movement In the 1970s, an organized resistance to the destruction of forests spread throughout India and came to be known as the Chipko movement. The name of the movement comes from the word 'embrace', as the villagers hugged the trees, and prevented the contractors' from felling them.
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September Navdanya Movement Navdanya is a network of seed keepers and organic producers spread across 18 states in India. Navdanya has helped set up 122 community seed banks across the country, trained over 5,00,000 farmers in seed sovereignty, food sovereignty and sustainable agriculture over the past two decades, and helped setup the largest direct marketing, fair trade organic network in the country.
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October Tarun Bharath Sangh Tarun Bharat Sangh (TBS) is a non-governmental organization in Rajasthan. It is directed by Rajendra Singh. The organization and Singh are best known for doing ecological research and land development to provide clean water to people.
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November The Research And Energy Institute Research activities, initiated towards the end of 1982, were rooted in TERIÂ’s firm conviction that efficient utilization of energy and sustainable use of natural resources would propel the process of development.
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DECEMBER Jungle Bachao Andolan
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Jharkhand Save the Forest Movement (Jungle Bachao Andolan) is essentially an Adivasi led organization. Overall objective of the planned work is to save the forest and increase the forest cover for the ‘people and the planet’.
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