People's contribution in forest conservation - class-XII
Description: people's contribution in forest conservation | |
Number of Questions: 25 | |
Created by: Vaibhav Pathak | |
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The aim of social forestry is to make available
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Fodder
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Minor timber
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Fire wood
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All of the above
Social forestry means the management and protection of forests and afforestation on barren lands with the purpose of helping in the environmental, social and rural development. The term, social forestry, was first used in India in 1976 by The National Commission on Agriculture, Government of India.
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Fodder
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Minor timber
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Fire wood
Chipko movement' is connected with
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Project tiger
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Plant breeding
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Protection of environment including habitat and wild life
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Conservation of natural resources
'Chipko movement' is connected with protection of environment including habitat and wild life.
The main leader of chipko movement was Pandurang Hegde.
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True
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False
- The main leader of the chipko movement was Sunderlal Bahuguna. The idea of Chipko movement was of his wife and the action was taken by him.
- Chipko Movement, started in 1970's, was a non-violent movement aimed at protection and conservation of trees and forests from being destroyed.
- Hence the main leader of the chipko movement was Pandurang Hegde is a false statement because of the main leader of the chipko movement was Sunderlal Bahuguna.
- So, the correct answer is 'False'.
"Forestry of the people, by the people and for the people" is
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Agroforestry
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Social forestry
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Urban forestry
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all
It is "Forestry of the people, by the people and for the people". It includes raising trees on government owned lands for obtaining food, fodder, wood, fruits etc.
The Chipko movement started from
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Reni in Garhwal
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Arborio forest
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Khejrali village
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None of the above
The Chipko movement originated from an incident in a remote village called Reni in Garhwal, high-up in the Himalayas during the early 1970s.
Which of the following is not related with Sunderlal Bahuguna?
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He started chipko movement.
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He was elected to Lok Sabha.
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He is an environmentalist.
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He was awarded the Padma Bhushan.
Chipko movement was started by
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Salumarada Thimmakka
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Sunderlal Bahuguna
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Medha Patkar
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Suresh Heblikar
Chipko movement was first started in
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Chamoli district
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Kangra
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Shimla
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None of the above
The pioneer country in the production of fuel alcohol is
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Suadi Arabia
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Iran and Iraq
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Brazil
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Japan
Sugarcane ethanol is an alcohol-based fuel produced by the fermentation of sugarcane juice and molasses. Because it is a clean, affordable and low-carbon biofuel, sugarcane ethanol has emerged as a leading renewable fuel for the transportation sector.
Chipco movement is a public agitation that occurred in :
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Mansbal area in Kashmir
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Silent valley in Kerala
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Sundarban area in Bengal
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Tehri Garhwal area of Uttar Pradesh
Social forestry is
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Planting of different kinds of trees in the same area
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Greening of hills with the efforts of common men
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Raising trees on common village lands and other vacant areas of fodder, minor timber and fire wood
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None of the above
Social Forestry Programme was adopted in India during
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1961
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1971
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1976
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1986
Social Forestry Programme was adopted in India during 1961. It is concerned with taking the pressure off currently existing forests by planting trees on all unused and fallow land. It aims at management and protection of forests and afforestation on barren lands with the purpose of helping in the environmental, social and rural development.
Green audit is
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Estimation of crop yield and crop area
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Estimation of forested area and pasture land
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Checking of impact of an establishment over environment
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Effect of environment over vegetation of an area
Chipko movement originated in Gopeshwar in
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1953
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1963
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1973
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1983
The "Chipko Movement" has its roots in the early 1970s in the Chamoli District of Uttarakhand in India. Under the guidance of the spiritual leader Chandi Prasad Bhatt, activists from the Himalayan village of Gopeshwar formed in 1973 a human chain and encircled trees to keep them from being cut down for a factory.
Which one of the following groups of plants is used in social forestry?
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Mango, Peepul, Neem, Poinsettia
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Eucalyptus, Mango, Banyan, Euphoria
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Subabul, Eucalyptus, Casuarinas, Bamboo
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Subabul, Banyan, Banana, Coconut
Chipko andolan originated in
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Karnataka
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Uttarakhand
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Kerala
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Rajasthan
The Chipko Movement was started in the northern Himalayan segment of Uttarakhand. The name of the movement comes from a word meaning embrace: where the villagers hugged the trees, saving them by interposing their bodies between them and the contractor's axes. This became popular as Chipko movement. Chipko movement is a grassroots level movement, which started in response to the needs of the people of Uttarakhand.
Chipko Andolan (Movement) which was started in 1980 in Garhwal/Himalayas (Gopeshwar) near Alkananda river was for the first time initiated by
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Chander Prasad Bhat
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Sunder Lal Bhaugauna
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Baba Amte
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Vinova Bhave
Who started chipko movement?
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Sunderlal Bahuguna
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Amrita Devi Bishnoi
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Anna Hazare
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None of the above
Chipko movement started in India in
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1970
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1980
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1972
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1975
Social forestry is useful in yielding
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Floriculture
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Timber
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Medicines
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Multipurpose uses
Forests cannot be conserved until and unless conservation of forests is turned into a people's movement and masses are involved in conservation efforts. With this motive twin programmes of social and urban forestry, were launched for rural and urban areas respectively. Social forestry was started in 1976 with the aim of raising quick growing multipurpose plants in common village lands for meeting requirement of fodder, firewood and small timber. This will reduce the dependance on existing forests, lead to development of new green cover, provide employment, reduce pollution and utilise the unused land for benefit of rural masses.
Government of India is putting more stress on planting quick growing trees which yield better fodder and fuel. It is under
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Afforestation
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Forest conservation
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Social forestry
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All of the above
Chipko movement in the year 1974 in Garhwal Himalayas involved
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Protecting tigers
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Preventing soil erosion by planting trees
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Preventing pollution by closing down industries
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Hugging trees to prevent the contractors from felling them
Chipko movement in the year 1974 in Garhwal Himalayas involved hugging trees to prevent the contractors from felling them. This movement was started in March 1974 in Gopeshwar in Chamoli District and was headed by Chandi Prasad Bhatt of Gopeshwar and Sunder Lal Bahuguna of silyara in Tehri region. It was started for protecting trees. Local women showed enormous bravery in protecting trees from the axe of contractors by hugging them. People all over the world have acclaimed the Chipko Movement.
Social forestry is
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Management and protection of forest
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Afforestation of barren and deforested lands
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Done with the purpose of helping environmental, social and rural development
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All of the above
Social forestry refers to the management & production of forest and afforestation of lands which are barren or have undergone deforestation. This is done to improve the environmental conditions
Planting of trees on unused farm land, road and rail ride etc. is called as
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Social forestry
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General forestry
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Agro forestry
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Commercial forestry
The 'National Commission on Agriculture', Government of India, first used the term social forestry in 1976. It was then that India embarked upon a social forestry project with the aim of taking the pressure off the forests and making use of all unused and fallow land. Government forest areas that are close to human settlement and have been degraded over the years due to human activities needed to be afforested. Trees were to be planted in and around agricultural fields. Plantation of trees along railway lines and roadsides, and river and canal banks were carried out. They were planted in village common land, Government wasteland and panchayat land.
'Social forestry' aims at
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Growing different types of plantations together
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Growing one type of trees on the land
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Management of forests by villiige bodies
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Management of forests by cooperative societies
Social forestry is the forestry by the people and for the people, whose main purpose is to fulfill the needs of forestry, which are - manure, food, fruit, fibre and productive capacity.
(ii) To increase fuel availability and to increase the food modification by increasing fruit production.
(iii) To encourage plantation of large and beautiful trees, which provide shadow to enhance the natural beauty and to plant all around the cultivation field to increase production.
(iv) To encourage environment conservation by plantation and to create general consciousness regarding environment conservation.
(v) To enhance the natural beauty of the villages and cities by plantation.