Chandi Prasad Bhatt

An Award-winning environmentalist and social activist

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In 2013, I received the prestigious Gandhi Peace Prize!

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In 2003, I was formally assigned as a member of the 'National Forest Commission'.

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My society colleagues and I were helped by supportive students, officials, and scientists.

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Because of the adverse restriction of the villager’s rights to trees and forest products, this empowered me to encourage villagers and organizations to join the Chipko Movement in 1973.

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By 1964, I virtuously instituted the Society for Village Self-Rule to organize fellow villagers in Gopeshwar for making a living out of making wooden implements from ash.

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Because I wanted to commit full-time to my meaningful activities, I left my job at Garhwal Motor Owners Union in 1960.

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In 1956, I found hope when a Gandhian leader delivered an inspiring speech. From then on, other youth groups and I launched ourselves into various movements and campaigns such as the Sarvodaya movement and other Gandhian campaigns.

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I, Chandi Prasad Bhatt, was born on 23 June 1934 in Gopeshwar, Chamoli, Uttarakhand, India.