Q.Explain the role of the Dasholi Gram Swarajya Mandal, associated with Chandi Prasad Bhatt, in giving rise to the Chipko Movement.

From the 1960s onward, DGSM worked to secure sustainable livelihoods for local villagers through the community-based, cooperative use of forest produce -- for example, producing small manufactured goods from timber allotted to the cooperative, rather than seeing that timber go to outside commercial contractors. Tension grew when local communities and cooperatives such as DGSM found themselves repeatedly denied access to trees that were instead allotted to large commercial contractors working for industries far from the forest itself. This perceived unfairness became the immediate trigger for direct, organised, non-violent resistance: when contractors arrived to fell allotted trees, DGSM-linked villagers moved to prevent it by embracing the trees themselves -- and this specific confrontation, in the early 1970s, …

Explain the causal chain: cooperative livelihood organising -> repeated denial of tree access to the cooperative -> direct resistance by D …

Do not present DGSM and Chipko as two unrelated, separately occurring movements -- the question specifically asks about DGSM's ROLE in giving rise to Chipko, so the cau …