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The Chipko movement was organised in Bengal.

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The above statement is false.
The Chipko Movement was started to protect trees from deforestation and was performed in the Garhwal region of Uttarakhand. The natives hugged the trees to protect them from falling. The methods used in this movement were Gandhian satyagraha, a nonviolent action. The movement laid stress on the importance of forests to the environment. The slogan “Ecology is the economy” was adopted to emphasize the importance of trees. It was a people’s movement to raise social awareness of the need to save trees. Hence the correct statement would be The Chipko movement was organized in the Garhwal region of Uttarakhand.

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