Chapter- 16         Women for Trees


What is the title of the lesson?

Answer: The title of the lesson is Women for Trees.


What is the name of the village mentioned in the lesson?

Answer: The name of the village is Bhalapur.


Where is Bhalapur village located?

Answer: It is in the Rajnandagaon district of Chhattisgarh.


How far is Bhalapur from the block office of Mohla?

Answer: It is nearly 84 kilometers away.


What kind of land existed earlier in Bhalapur?

Answer: There was deforested land.


How large was the deforested land?

Answer: It was a 12-hectare plot of land.


What stands on that land today?

Answer: A dense green forest stands there today.


When did the changes begin in the village?

Answer: In the mid eighties.


Who organised the women of Bhalapur?

Answer: Vikram organised the women.


What group did Vikram form?

Answer: He formed a Mahila Mandal.


Who were the women in the Mahila Mandal?

Answer: Mostly oppressed women and adivasis.


Why was the Mahila Mandal formed?

Answer: To discuss village problems.


What was discussed in the Mahila Mandal meetings?

Answer: Village problems were discussed.


What was found to be the greatest problem of the village?

Answer: Collecting firewood.


Why was collecting firewood difficult?

Answer: Because the village forest was shrinking.


What was happening to the village forest?

Answer: It was shrinking.


Why was the forest shrinking?

Answer: Due to felling of trees.


Who were responsible for cutting the trees?

Answer: Insensitive people.


What does “deforested land” mean?

Answer: Land without trees.


What does “dense” mean in the text?

Answer: Thick and full of trees.


What positive change happened in Bhalapur?

Answer: A green forest grew on barren land.


Who played a key role in this change?

Answer: Vikram and the women of the village.


What does Mahila Mandal mean?

Answer: A group or organisation of women.


What quality of the women is shown in the lesson?

Answer: Unity and responsibility.


What problem affected daily life of villagers most?

Answer: Lack of firewood.


What lesson does this story teach us?

Answer: Community effort can solve big problems.


What role did women play in protecting nature?

Answer: They worked together to save trees.


Why is this lesson important?

Answer: It shows the importance of forests.


What kind of people were cutting trees?

Answer: Careless and insensitive people.


What is the main theme of the lesson?

Answer: Women’s role in forest conservation.

Answer by Dimpee Bora