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The Silent Valley Movement was started in 1973 in the state of:1. Odisha2. Kerala3. Andhra Pradesh4. Himachal Pradesh

Answer» Correct Answer - Option 2 : Kerala

The correct answer is Kerala.

  • The Silent Valley Movement was started in 1973 by an NGO led by school teachers and the Kerala Sastra Sahithya Parishad(KSSP) to save Silent Valley from being flooded by a hydroelectric project.
  • In 1970 the Kerala State Electricity Board (KSEB) proposes a hydroelectric dam across the Kunthipuzha River that runs through Silent Valley, that will submerge 8.3 sq km of untouched moist evergreen forest.
  • Silent Valley is an evergreen tropical forest in the Palakkad district of Kerala, India.
  • The valley was declared as Silent Valley National Park in 1985.

  • In 1973 Chipko movement, was started in the Himalayan regions of U.P. (now in Uttarakhand).
  • The aim of this movement was forest conservation and increase social awareness and the need to save trees, increase ecological awareness, and demonstrate the viability of people power.
  • Sunderlal Bahuguna and Gaura Devi are the key people of this movement. 
  • Sunderlal Bahuguna gave the slogan "Ecology is the permanent economy".


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