Question

Pandurang Hegde launched the Appiko Movement in Karnataka in _______ ?

• A. 1980
• B. 1981
• C. 1983
• D. 1984

Answer 1

Answer:

C. 1983

Appiko Movement is one of the forest-based environmental movements in India. The movement took place in the Uttara Kannada district of Karnataka in the Western Ghats. The movement created awareness among the villagers throughout the Western Ghats about the ecological danger posed by the commercial and industrial interests to their forest which was the main source of sustenance.