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	'''Chandi Prasad Bhatt''' (born 1934) is an Indian [[Gandhian]] environmentalist and social activist, who founded Dasholi Gram Swarajya Sangh (DGSS) in [[Gopeshwar]] in 1964, which later became a mother-organization to the [[Chipko Movement]], in which he was one of the pioneers, and for which he was awarded the [[Ramon Magsaysay Award]] for Community Leadership in 1982, followed by the [[Padma Bhushan]] in 2005.<ref name=hind/><ref>[http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/22864809.cms A clutch of crusaders across India are ready to stake their reputations and devote their lives to saving the environment..] [[The Times of India]], 22 September 2002.</ref> Today he is known for his work on [[Subaltern (postcolonialism)\|subaltern]] [[Social ecology (theory)\|social ecology]], and considered one of India's first modern environmentalist.<ref>[http://www.telegraphindia.com/1040904/asp/opinion/story_3713095.asp ..the first modern Indian environmentalist, and also to being the greatest...] [[Ramchandra Guha]], [[The Telegraph (Kolkata)\|The Telegraph]], 4 September 2004.</ref> In 2013, he was the recipient of the [[Gandhi Peace Prize]].<ref name="pib.nic.in">{{Cite web\|url=http://pib.nic.in/newsite/backgrounders.aspx?relid=106607\|title=Untitled Page}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web\|url=http://presidentofindia.nic.in/press-release-detail.htm?972\|title = The President of India}}</ref>		'''Chandi Prasad Bhatt''' (born 1934) is an Indian [[Gandhian]] environmentalist and social activist, who founded Dasholi Gram Swarajya Sangh (DGSS) in [[Gopeshwar]] in 1964, which later became a mother-organization to the [[Chipko Movement]], in which he was one of the pioneers, and for which he was awarded the [[Ramon Magsaysay Award]] for Community Leadership in 1982, followed by the [[Padma Bhushan]] in 2005.<ref name=hind/>

	==~~His~~ Early life ==		<ref>[http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/22864809.cms A clutch of crusaders across India are ready to stake their reputations and devote their lives to saving the environment..] [[The Times of India]], 22 September 2002.</ref>Today he is known for his work on [[Subaltern (postcolonialism)\|subaltern]] [[Social ecology (theory)\|social ecology]], and considered one of India's first modern environmentalist.

			<ref>[http://www.telegraphindia.com/1040904/asp/opinion/story_3713095.asp ..the first modern Indian environmentalist, and also to being the greatest...] [[Ramchandra Guha]], [[The Telegraph (Kolkata)\|The Telegraph]], 4 September 2004.</ref> In 2013, he was the recipient of the [[Gandhi Peace Prize]].

			<ref name="pib.nic.in">{{Cite web\|url=http://pib.nic.in/newsite/backgrounders.aspx?relid=106607\|title=Untitled Page}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web\|url=http://presidentofindia.nic.in/press-release-detail.htm?972\|title = The President of India}}</ref>

			==Early life ==
	Chandi Prasad Bhatt was born on 23 June 1934, as the second child of Ganga Ram Bhatt and Maheshi Devi Thapliyal, in a family of priests to the Rudranath Temple in [[Gopeshwar]], one of the [[Panch Kedar]], the five Himalayan temples dedicated to [[Shiva]], the most venerated amongst them being the [[Kedarnath Temple]].<ref name=hind>{{usurped\|[https://web.archive.org/web/20100211130523/http://www.hinduonnet.com/mag/2002/06/02/stories/2002060200010100.htm A Gandhian in Garhwal]}} [[The Hindu]], Sunday, 2 June 2002.</ref> His father, who was a farmer as well as a priest at the famous [[Shiva]] temple at Gopeshwar and the [[Rudranath\| Rudranath temple]], died when Chandi Prasad was still an infant and he was raised thereafter by his mother, in [[Gopeshwar]], [[Chamoli District]] of [[Uttarakhand]] in India, which was then still a very small village. He did his schooling in [[Rudraprayag]] and [[Pauri]], but stopped before he could receive a degree.<ref>[http://www.rmaf.org.ph/Awardees/Biography/BiographyBhattCha.htm BIOGRAPHY of Chandi Prasad Bhatt] {{Webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090105182009/http://www.rmaf.org.ph/Awardees/Biography/BiographyBhattCha.htm \|date=5 January 2009 }} The 1982 [[Ramon Magsaysay Award]] for Community Leadership.</ref>		Chandi Prasad Bhatt was born on 23 June 1934, as the second child of Ganga Ram Bhatt and Maheshi Devi Thapliyal, in a family of priests to the Rudranath Temple in [[Gopeshwar]], one of the [[Panch Kedar]], the five Himalayan temples dedicated to [[Shiva]], the most venerated amongst them being the [[Kedarnath Temple]].<ref name=hind>{{usurped\|[https://web.archive.org/web/20100211130523/http://www.hinduonnet.com/mag/2002/06/02/stories/2002060200010100.htm A Gandhian in Garhwal]}} [[The Hindu]], Sunday, 2 June 2002.</ref> His father, who was a farmer as well as a priest at the famous [[Shiva]] temple at Gopeshwar and the [[Rudranath\| Rudranath temple]], died when Chandi Prasad was still an infant and he was raised thereafter by his mother, in [[Gopeshwar]], [[Chamoli District]] of [[Uttarakhand]] in India, which was then still a very small village. He did his schooling in [[Rudraprayag]] and [[Pauri]], but stopped before he could receive a degree.<ref>[http://www.rmaf.org.ph/Awardees/Biography/BiographyBhattCha.htm BIOGRAPHY of Chandi Prasad Bhatt] {{Webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090105182009/http://www.rmaf.org.ph/Awardees/Biography/BiographyBhattCha.htm \|date=5 January 2009 }} The 1982 [[Ramon Magsaysay Award]] for Community Leadership.</ref>

	==~~His~~ Career==		==Career==
	Farmland was scarce in the overpopulated mountains, and so were jobs. Like most men of the mountain villages, Chandi Prasad taught art to children for a year to support his mother, before eventually forced to work in the plains. He joined the Garhwal Motor Owners Union (GMOU) as a booking clerk, posted at various places including, [[Rishikesh]], Pipalkoti and [[Karnaprayag]].		Farmland was scarce in the overpopulated mountains, and so were jobs. Like most men of the mountain villages, Chandi Prasad taught art to children for a year to support his mother, before eventually forced to work in the plains. He joined the Garhwal Motor Owners Union (GMOU) as a booking clerk, posted at various places including, [[Rishikesh]], Pipalkoti and [[Karnaprayag]].

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	Although Bhatt has attended meetings in lowland India and abroad as a spokesman for Chipko, he has remained a man of his community. He and his wife continue to live the simple life of their Himalayan neighbours. In the process he has become knowledgeable and productive in helping ensure his peoples' hard won living. In 2003, he was appointed a member of the ''''National Forest Commission'''', which reviewed all existing policies and legal frameworks relating to forest management, and submitted its report to the Government in 2005.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20121023155905/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2003-02-21/india/27263380_1_national-forest-commission-status-of-forest-administration-management-and-local-communities Justice Kirpal to head National Forest Commission] [[The Times of India]], 21 February 2003.</ref>		Although Bhatt has attended meetings in lowland India and abroad as a spokesman for Chipko, he has remained a man of his community. He and his wife continue to live the simple life of their Himalayan neighbours. In the process he has become knowledgeable and productive in helping ensure his peoples' hard won living. In 2003, he was appointed a member of the ''''National Forest Commission'''', which reviewed all existing policies and legal frameworks relating to forest management, and submitted its report to the Government in 2005.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20121023155905/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2003-02-21/india/27263380_1_national-forest-commission-status-of-forest-administration-management-and-local-communities Justice Kirpal to head National Forest Commission] [[The Times of India]], 21 February 2003.</ref>

	== ~~His~~ Publications==		==Publications==
	(Selected Books)		(Selected Books)

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	==Awards and honours==		==Awards and honours==
	Indira Gandhi award for national integration 2018		*'''2018:''' Indira Gandhi award for national integration 2018

	[http://www.unep.org/PDF/G500DIRECTORY.pdf UNDP Global 500]<br>		[http://www.unep.org/PDF/G500DIRECTORY.pdf UNDP Global 500]<br>
	[https://web.archive.org/web/20150924114113/http://www.rmaf.org.ph/newrmaf/main/awardees/awardee/profile/23 Ramon Magsaysay Award for Community Leadership 1982]<br>		[https://web.archive.org/web/20150924114113/http://www.rmaf.org.ph/newrmaf/main/awardees/awardee/profile/23 Ramon Magsaysay Award for Community Leadership 1982]<br>
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	[https://web.archive.org/web/20140814012350/http://archive.india.gov.in/myindia/padmabhushan_awards_list1.php Padma Bhushan 2005] <br>		[https://web.archive.org/web/20140814012350/http://archive.india.gov.in/myindia/padmabhushan_awards_list1.php Padma Bhushan 2005] <br>
	Awarded [[Gandhi Peace Prize]] for the year 2013 on 15 July 2014 by The President of India<ref name="pib.nic.in" /><ref>{{Cite web\|url=http://zeenews.india.com/news/nation/president-to-present-gandhi-peace-prize-today_947473.html\|title = President presents Gandhi Peace Prize to Chandi Prasad Bhatt\|date = 15 July 2014}}</ref><br>		* '''2013:''' Awarded [[Gandhi Peace Prize]] for the year 2013 on 15 July 2014 by The President of India<ref name="pib.nic.in" /><ref>{{Cite web\|url=http://zeenews.india.com/news/nation/president-to-present-gandhi-peace-prize-today_947473.html\|title = President presents Gandhi Peace Prize to Chandi Prasad Bhatt\|date = 15 July 2014}}</ref><br>
	Sri Sathya Sai Award for human excellence 2016 in the category Environment by Sri Sathya Sai Lok Seva Trust<ref>{{Cite web\|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/videos/news/Sri-Sathya-Sai-Awards-for-Human-Excellence-conferred-on-seven-people/videoshow/55597359.cms\|title=Sri Sathya Sai Awards for Human Excellence conferred on seven people \| News - Times of India Videos}}</ref>		*'''2016:'''Sri Sathya Sai Award for human excellence 2016 in the category Environment by Sri Sathya Sai Lok Seva Trust<ref>{{Cite web\|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/videos/news/Sri-Sathya-Sai-Awards-for-Human-Excellence-conferred-on-seven-people/videoshow/55597359.cms\|title=Sri Sathya Sai Awards for Human Excellence conferred on seven people \| News - Times of India Videos}}</ref>

	== References ==		== References ==
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	~~[[Category:Indian environmentalists]]~~
	[[Category:Indian conservationists]]		[[Category:Indian conservationists]]
	[[Category:Ramon Magsaysay Award winners]]		[[Category:Ramon Magsaysay Award winners]]

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	'''Chandi Prasad Bhatt''' (born 1934) is an Indian [[Gandhian]] environmentalist and social activist, who founded Dasholi Gram Swarajya Sangh (DGSS) in [[Gopeshwar]] in 1964, which later became a mother-organization to the [[Chipko Movement]], in which he was one of the pioneers, and for which he was awarded the [[Ramon Magsaysay Award]] for Community Leadership in 1982, followed by the [[Padma Bhushan]] in 2005.<ref name=hind/><ref>[http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/22864809.cms A clutch of crusaders across India are ready to stake their reputations and devote their lives to saving the environment..] [[The Times of India]], 22 September 2002.</ref> Today he is known for his work on [[Subaltern (postcolonialism)\|subaltern]] [[Social ecology (theory)\|social ecology]], and considered one of India's first modern environmentalist.<ref>[http://www.telegraphindia.com/1040904/asp/opinion/story_3713095.asp ..the first modern Indian environmentalist, and also to being the greatest...] [[Ramchandra Guha]], [[The Telegraph (Kolkata)\|The Telegraph]], 4 September 2004.</ref> In 2013, he was the recipient of the [[Gandhi Peace Prize]].<ref name="pib.nic.in">http://pib.nic.in/newsite/backgrounders.aspx?relid=106607</ref><ref>http://presidentofindia.nic.in/press-release-detail.htm?972</ref>		'''Chandi Prasad Bhatt''' (born 1934) is an Indian [[Gandhian]] environmentalist and social activist, who founded Dasholi Gram Swarajya Sangh (DGSS) in [[Gopeshwar]] in 1964, which later became a mother-organization to the [[Chipko Movement]], in which he was one of the pioneers, and for which he was awarded the [[Ramon Magsaysay Award]] for Community Leadership in 1982, followed by the [[Padma Bhushan]] in 2005.<ref name=hind/><ref>[http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/22864809.cms A clutch of crusaders across India are ready to stake their reputations and devote their lives to saving the environment..] [[The Times of India]], 22 September 2002.</ref> Today he is known for his work on [[Subaltern (postcolonialism)\|subaltern]] [[Social ecology (theory)\|social ecology]], and considered one of India's first modern environmentalist.<ref>[http://www.telegraphindia.com/1040904/asp/opinion/story_3713095.asp ..the first modern Indian environmentalist, and also to being the greatest...] [[Ramchandra Guha]], [[The Telegraph (Kolkata)\|The Telegraph]], 4 September 2004.</ref> In 2013, he was the recipient of the [[Gandhi Peace Prize]].<ref name="pib.nic.in">{{Cite web\|url=http://pib.nic.in/newsite/backgrounders.aspx?relid=106607\|title=Untitled Page}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web\|url=http://presidentofindia.nic.in/press-release-detail.htm?972\|title = The President of India}}</ref>

	== Early life ==		==His Early life ==
	Chandi Prasad Bhatt was born on 23 June 1934, as the second child of Ganga Ram Bhatt and Maheshi Devi Thapliyal, in a family of priests to the Rudranath Temple in [[Gopeshwar]], one of the [[Panch Kedar]], the five Himalayan temples dedicated to [[Shiva]], the most venerated amongst them being the [[Kedarnath Temple]].<ref name=hind>~~[http://www.hinduonnet.com/mag/2002/06/02/stories/2002060200010100.htm A Gandhian in Garhwal]~~ {{~~Webarchive~~\|~~url=~~https://web.archive.org/web/20100211130523/http://www.hinduonnet.com/mag/2002/06/02/stories/2002060200010100.htm ~~\|date=11 February 2010~~ }} [[The Hindu]], Sunday, 2 June 2002.</ref> His father, who was a farmer as well as a priest at the famous [[Shiva]] temple at Gopeshwar and the [[Rudranath\| Rudranath temple]], died when Chandi Prasad was still an infant and he was raised thereafter by his mother, in [[Gopeshwar]], [[Chamoli District]] of [[Uttarakhand]] in India, which was then still a very small village. He did his schooling in [[Rudraprayag]] and [[Pauri]], but stopped before he could receive a degree.<ref>[http://www.rmaf.org.ph/Awardees/Biography/BiographyBhattCha.htm BIOGRAPHY of Chandi Prasad Bhatt] {{Webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090105182009/http://www.rmaf.org.ph/Awardees/Biography/BiographyBhattCha.htm \|date=5 January 2009 }} The 1982 [[Ramon Magsaysay Award]] for Community Leadership.</ref>		Chandi Prasad Bhatt was born on 23 June 1934, as the second child of Ganga Ram Bhatt and Maheshi Devi Thapliyal, in a family of priests to the Rudranath Temple in [[Gopeshwar]], one of the [[Panch Kedar]], the five Himalayan temples dedicated to [[Shiva]], the most venerated amongst them being the [[Kedarnath Temple]].<ref name=hind>{{usurped\|[https://web.archive.org/web/20100211130523/http://www.hinduonnet.com/mag/2002/06/02/stories/2002060200010100.htm A Gandhian in Garhwal]}} [[The Hindu]], Sunday, 2 June 2002.</ref> His father, who was a farmer as well as a priest at the famous [[Shiva]] temple at Gopeshwar and the [[Rudranath\| Rudranath temple]], died when Chandi Prasad was still an infant and he was raised thereafter by his mother, in [[Gopeshwar]], [[Chamoli District]] of [[Uttarakhand]] in India, which was then still a very small village. He did his schooling in [[Rudraprayag]] and [[Pauri]], but stopped before he could receive a degree.<ref>[http://www.rmaf.org.ph/Awardees/Biography/BiographyBhattCha.htm BIOGRAPHY of Chandi Prasad Bhatt] {{Webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090105182009/http://www.rmaf.org.ph/Awardees/Biography/BiographyBhattCha.htm \|date=5 January 2009 }} The 1982 [[Ramon Magsaysay Award]] for Community Leadership.</ref>

	==Career==		==His Career==
	Farmland was scarce in the overpopulated mountains, and so were jobs. Like most men of the mountain villages, Chandi Prasad taught art to children for a year to support his mother, before eventually forced to work in the plains. He joined the Garhwal Motor Owners Union (GMOU) as a booking clerk, posted at various places including, [[Rishikesh]], Pipalkoti and [[Karnaprayag]].		Farmland was scarce in the overpopulated mountains, and so were jobs. Like most men of the mountain villages, Chandi Prasad taught art to children for a year to support his mother, before eventually forced to work in the plains. He joined the Garhwal Motor Owners Union (GMOU) as a booking clerk, posted at various places including, [[Rishikesh]], Pipalkoti and [[Karnaprayag]].

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	Although Bhatt has attended meetings in lowland India and abroad as a spokesman for Chipko, he has remained a man of his community. He and his wife continue to live the simple life of their Himalayan neighbours. In the process he has become knowledgeable and productive in helping ensure his peoples' hard won living. In 2003, he was appointed a member of the ''''National Forest Commission'''', which reviewed all existing policies and legal frameworks relating to forest management, and submitted its report to the Government in 2005.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20121023155905/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2003-02-21/india/27263380_1_national-forest-commission-status-of-forest-administration-management-and-local-communities Justice Kirpal to head National Forest Commission] [[The Times of India]], 21 February 2003.</ref>		Although Bhatt has attended meetings in lowland India and abroad as a spokesman for Chipko, he has remained a man of his community. He and his wife continue to live the simple life of their Himalayan neighbours. In the process he has become knowledgeable and productive in helping ensure his peoples' hard won living. In 2003, he was appointed a member of the ''''National Forest Commission'''', which reviewed all existing policies and legal frameworks relating to forest management, and submitted its report to the Government in 2005.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20121023155905/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2003-02-21/india/27263380_1_national-forest-commission-status-of-forest-administration-management-and-local-communities Justice Kirpal to head National Forest Commission] [[The Times of India]], 21 February 2003.</ref>

	==Publications==		== His Publications==
	(Selected Books)		(Selected Books)

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	[https://web.archive.org/web/20150924114113/http://www.rmaf.org.ph/newrmaf/main/awardees/awardee/profile/23 Ramon Magsaysay Award for Community Leadership 1982]<br>		[https://web.archive.org/web/20150924114113/http://www.rmaf.org.ph/newrmaf/main/awardees/awardee/profile/23 Ramon Magsaysay Award for Community Leadership 1982]<br>
	[https://web.archive.org/web/20140814010305/http://archive.india.gov.in/myindia/padmashri_awards_list1.php Padma Shri 1986] <br>		[https://web.archive.org/web/20140814010305/http://archive.india.gov.in/myindia/padmashri_awards_list1.php Padma Shri 1986] <br>
			[https://web.archive.org/web/20140814010306/http: govind ballabh pant Vishwavidyalaya dwara dr of science ki upadhi
	[https://web.archive.org/web/20140814012350/http://archive.india.gov.in/myindia/padmabhushan_awards_list1.php Padma Bhushan 2005] <br>		[https://web.archive.org/web/20140814012350/http://archive.india.gov.in/myindia/padmabhushan_awards_list1.php Padma Bhushan 2005] <br>
	Awarded [[Gandhi Peace Prize]] for the year 2013 on 15 July 2014 by The President of India<ref name="pib.nic.in" /><ref>http://zeenews.india.com/news/nation/president-to-present-gandhi-peace-prize-today_947473.html</ref><br>		Awarded [[Gandhi Peace Prize]] for the year 2013 on 15 July 2014 by The President of India<ref name="pib.nic.in" /><ref>{{Cite web\|url=http://zeenews.india.com/news/nation/president-to-present-gandhi-peace-prize-today_947473.html\|title = President presents Gandhi Peace Prize to Chandi Prasad Bhatt\|date = 15 July 2014}}</ref><br>
	Sri Sathya Sai Award for human excellence 2016 in the category Environment by Sri Sathya Sai Lok Seva Trust<ref>http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/videos/news/Sri-Sathya-Sai-Awards-for-Human-Excellence-conferred-on-seven-people/videoshow/55597359.cms</ref>		Sri Sathya Sai Award for human excellence 2016 in the category Environment by Sri Sathya Sai Lok Seva Trust<ref>{{Cite web\|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/videos/news/Sri-Sathya-Sai-Awards-for-Human-Excellence-conferred-on-seven-people/videoshow/55597359.cms\|title=Sri Sathya Sai Awards for Human Excellence conferred on seven people \| News - Times of India Videos}}</ref>

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	[[Category:Members of the Planning Commission of India]]		[[Category:Members of the Planning Commission of India]]
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| parents = Ganga Ram Bhatt (father), Maheshi Devi Thapliyal (mother)
| awards = [[Gandhi Peace Prize]] (2013)
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'''Chandi Prasad Bhatt''' (born 1934) is an Indian [[Gandhian]] environmentalist and social activist, who founded Dasholi Gram Swarajya Sangh (DGSS) in [[Gopeshwar]] in 1964, which later became a mother-organization to the [[Chipko Movement]], in which he was one of the pioneers, and for which he was awarded the [[Ramon Magsaysay Award]] for Community Leadership in 1982, followed by the [[Padma Bhushan]] in 2005.<ref name=hind/><ref>[http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/22864809.cms A clutch of crusaders across India are ready to stake their reputations and devote their lives to saving the environment..] [[The Times of India]], 22 September 2002.</ref> Today he is known for his work on [[Subaltern (postcolonialism)|subaltern]] [[Social ecology (theory)|social ecology]], and considered one of India's first modern environmentalist.<ref>[http://www.telegraphindia.com/1040904/asp/opinion/story_3713095.asp ..the first modern Indian environmentalist, and also to being the greatest...] [[Ramchandra Guha]], [[The Telegraph (Kolkata)|The Telegraph]], 4 September 2004.</ref> In 2013, he was the recipient of the [[Gandhi Peace Prize]].<ref name="pib.nic.in">http://pib.nic.in/newsite/backgrounders.aspx?relid=106607</ref><ref>http://presidentofindia.nic.in/press-release-detail.htm?972</ref>

== Early life ==
Chandi Prasad Bhatt was born on 23 June 1934, as the second child of Ganga Ram Bhatt and Maheshi Devi Thapliyal, in a family of priests to the Rudranath Temple in [[Gopeshwar]], one of the [[Panch Kedar]], the five Himalayan temples dedicated to [[Shiva]], the most venerated amongst them being the [[Kedarnath Temple]].<ref name=hind>[http://www.hinduonnet.com/mag/2002/06/02/stories/2002060200010100.htm A Gandhian in Garhwal] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100211130523/http://www.hinduonnet.com/mag/2002/06/02/stories/2002060200010100.htm |date=11 February 2010 }} [[The Hindu]], Sunday, 2 June 2002.</ref> His father, who was a farmer as well as a priest at the famous [[Shiva]] temple at Gopeshwar and the [[Rudranath| Rudranath temple]], died when Chandi Prasad was still an infant and he was raised thereafter by his mother, in [[Gopeshwar]], [[Chamoli District]] of [[Uttarakhand]] in India, which was then still a very small village. He did his schooling in [[Rudraprayag]] and [[Pauri]], but stopped before he could receive a degree.<ref>[http://www.rmaf.org.ph/Awardees/Biography/BiographyBhattCha.htm BIOGRAPHY of Chandi Prasad Bhatt] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090105182009/http://www.rmaf.org.ph/Awardees/Biography/BiographyBhattCha.htm |date=5 January 2009 }} The 1982 [[Ramon Magsaysay Award]] for Community Leadership.</ref>

==Career==
Farmland was scarce in the overpopulated mountains, and so were jobs. Like most men of the mountain villages, Chandi Prasad taught art to children for a year to support his mother, before eventually forced to work in the plains. He joined the Garhwal Motor Owners Union (GMOU) as a booking clerk, posted at various places including, [[Rishikesh]], Pipalkoti and [[Karnaprayag]].

In 1956, Bhatt found hope when he heard a speech by the [[Gandhian]] leader [[Jayaprakash Narayan]], who was on a tour of the area. Bhatt and other young people launched themselves into the [[Sarvodaya#Sarvodaya movement|Sarvodaya movement]] and Gandhian campaigns, of [[Bhoodan]] and [[Gramdan]] and organising villages for economic development and fighting liquor abuse throughout the Uttarakhand.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=DQyPbvLvK_sC&pg=PA65&lpg=PA65&dq=Chandi+Prasad+Bhatt&source=bl&ots=dQrndg964B&sig=0c1alTiCJTitzsjAaBcwSTH08J8&hl=en&ei=nqjZSYb2Koro6gP-9_H5Cg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=7 Chandi Prasad Bhatt ] ''Gandhi today: a report on Mahatma Gandhi's successors'', by Mark Shepard. Published by Shepard Publications, 1987. {{ISBN|0-938497-04-9}}. ''Page 65''.</ref>

In 1960, he left his job at GMOU, to commit full-time to his Sarvodaya activities, and by 1964, Bhatt had instituted the ''Dasholi Gram Swarajya Mandal'' (Society for Village Self-Rule) to organise fellow villagers in Gopeshwar for employment near their homes in forest-based industries, making wooden implements from ash trees and gathering and marketing herbs for [[ayurvedic medicine]]-and to combat vice and exploitation.

Curtailment of the villagers' legitimate rights to trees and forest products in favour of outside commercial interests enabled Bhatt, in 1973, to mobilise the forest-wise society members and villagers into the collective [[Chipko Andolan]] (Hug the Trees Movement) to force revision of forest policies dating from 1917. Women, who regularly walk three to five miles to the forest to gather and carry home fuel and fodder on their backs, took the lead. True to the movement's non-violent philosophy, these women embraced the trees to restrict their felling.<ref>{{cite web|last=Pathak|first=Shekhar|title=gaura-devi-a-leading-lady-of-chipko-movement-2/|url=http://www.apnauttarakhand.com/gaura-devi-a-leading-lady-of-chipko-movement-2/|access-date=2 September 2011}}</ref> Establishment of "eco-development camps" brought villagers together to discuss their needs within the context of the ecological balance of the forest. Stabilizing slopes by building rock retaining walls, the campers planted trees started in their own village nurseries. While less than one-third of the trees set out by government foresters survived, up to 88 percent of the villager-planted trees grew.

In 1974 he and his colleagues led a movement to save the cultural and archaeological heritage of the Badrinath shrine.<ref>{{cite web |title=The forgotten story of how Chipko Andolan pioneer Chandi Prasad Bhatt saved Badrinath temple |url=https://scroll.in/magazine/905320/the-forgotten-story-of-how-the-chipko-andolan-pioneer-chandi-prasad-bhatt-saved-badrinath-temple |website=Scroll |access-date=30 June 2020}}</ref>

Bhatt and his society colleagues have been helped by sympathetic scientists, officials and college students. Yet theirs is essentially an indigenous movement of mountain villagers, and Chipko Andolan has become an instrument of action and education for members, officials and outsiders, in the realities of effective resource conservation.

Although Bhatt has attended meetings in lowland India and abroad as a spokesman for Chipko, he has remained a man of his community. He and his wife continue to live the simple life of their Himalayan neighbours. In the process he has become knowledgeable and productive in helping ensure his peoples' hard won living. In 2003, he was appointed a member of the ''''National Forest Commission'''', which reviewed all existing policies and legal frameworks relating to forest management, and submitted its report to the Government in 2005.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20121023155905/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2003-02-21/india/27263380_1_national-forest-commission-status-of-forest-administration-management-and-local-communities Justice Kirpal to head National Forest Commission] [[The Times of India]], 21 February 2003.</ref>

==Publications==
(Selected Books)

* [http://www.nbtindia.gov.in/books_detail__6__general-titles__787__parvat-parvat-basti-basti-ek-samajik-karyakarta-ki-chuninda-yatrayain.nbt Parvat Parvat, Basti Basti — Publisher NBT India]
* Pratikar Ke Ankur (Hindi)
* Adhure Gyan Aur Kalpanik Vishwas Par Himalaya Se Chherkhani Ghatak (Hindi)
* Future of Large Projects in the Himalaya
* Eco-system of Central Himalaya
* Chipko Experience

==Awards and honours==
Indira Gandhi award for national integration 2018

[http://www.unep.org/PDF/G500DIRECTORY.pdf UNDP Global 500] 
[https://web.archive.org/web/20150924114113/http://www.rmaf.org.ph/newrmaf/main/awardees/awardee/profile/23 Ramon Magsaysay Award for Community Leadership 1982] 
[https://web.archive.org/web/20140814010305/http://archive.india.gov.in/myindia/padmashri_awards_list1.php Padma Shri 1986] 
[https://web.archive.org/web/20140814012350/http://archive.india.gov.in/myindia/padmabhushan_awards_list1.php Padma Bhushan 2005] 
Awarded [[Gandhi Peace Prize]] for the year 2013 on 15 July 2014 by The President of India<ref name="pib.nic.in" /><ref>http://zeenews.india.com/news/nation/president-to-present-gandhi-peace-prize-today_947473.html</ref> 
Sri Sathya Sai Award for human excellence 2016 in the category Environment by Sri Sathya Sai Lok Seva Trust<ref>http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/videos/news/Sri-Sathya-Sai-Awards-for-Human-Excellence-conferred-on-seven-people/videoshow/55597359.cms</ref>

== References ==
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*[https://web.archive.org/web/20130401090233/http://www.rmaf.org.ph/Awardees/Citation/CitationBhattCha.htm Citation for the 1982 Ramon Magsaysay Award for Community Leadership]

== External links ==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20040117033134/http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/mag/2002/06/02/stories/2002060200010100.htm "A Gandhian in Garhwal" by Ramachandra Guha, The Hindu, 2 June 2002]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20111104170445/http://www.markshep.com/nonviolence/GT_Chipko.html Hug the Trees! by Mark Shepard]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20130401090233/http://www.rmaf.org.ph/Awardees/Citation/CitationBhattCha.htm Citation for the 1982 Ramon Magsaysay Award for Community Leadership] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20071027082133/http://www.rmaf.org.ph/Awardees/Response/ResponseBhattCha.htm response]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20070616054614/http://nandadevi.prayaga.org/chipko.html Website of the Nanda Devi Campaign, the successor to the Chipko Movement]
*[http://edugreen.teri.res.in/explore/forestry/chipko.htm The Chipko Movement]

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