Chandi Prasad Bhatt, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Indian environmentalist
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Place of Birth: Chamoli Gopeshwar, Uttarakhand, India
About Chandi Prasad Bhatt
- 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.
- Today he is known for his work on subaltern social ecology, and considered one of India's first modern environmentalist.
- In 2013, he was the recipient of the Gandhi Peace Prize.
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