Write a short note on ‘Kittiko- Hachchiko’ movement.
In 1984 Karnataka government set up a company called Karnataka Pulpwood Limited. About 30,000 hectares of land was given virtually free to this company for 40 years. Much of this land was used by local farmers as grazing land for their cattle. However the company began could be used plant eucalyptus trees in these lands, which could be used for making paper pulp. In 1987 a movement called Kittiko-Hachchiko (meaning, pluck and plant) started a non-violent protest, where people plucked the eucalyptus plants and planted saplings of trees that were useful to the people.
