{"id":332022,"date":"2021-05-21T09:32:21","date_gmt":"2021-05-21T15:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=332022"},"modified":"2021-05-21T09:38:25","modified_gmt":"2021-05-21T15:08:25","slug":"environmentalist-sunderlal-bahuguna-dies-of-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/environmentalist-sunderlal-bahuguna-dies-of-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Environmentalist Sunderlal Bahuguna dies of Covid-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-332023\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/sundarlal-bahuguna.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"795\" height=\"447\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/05\/sundarlal-bahuguna.jpg 795w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/05\/sundarlal-bahuguna-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/05\/sundarlal-bahuguna-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/05\/sundarlal-bahuguna-696x391.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/05\/sundarlal-bahuguna-747x420.jpg 747w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 795px) 100vw, 795px\" \/>Environmentalist and Chipko movement pioneer, Sunderlal Bahuguna died due to Covid complications after battling\u00a0for several days at All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in Rishikesh.<\/p>\n<p>He was admitted to the hospital on May 8 after testing positive for Covid. His condition turned serious last night, with his oxygen level dipping severely. He breathed his last at 12.05 pm. \u00a0He was 94.<\/p>\n<p>Environmentalist Bahuguna, spent his life influencing and educating the villagers to protest against the destruction of the forests and Himalayan Mountains. It was his effort that saw then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi banning the cutting of tress.<\/p>\n<p>Bahuguna is best remembered for the slogan \u201cecology is the permanent economy\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Environmentalist and Chipko movement pioneer, Sunderlal Bahuguna died due to Covid complications after battling\u00a0for several days at All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in Rishikesh. He was admitted to the hospital on May 8 after testing positive for Covid. His condition turned serious last night, with his oxygen level dipping severely. He breathed his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":332023,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[56,36,2914],"tags":[14241,14243,14018,14239],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332022"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332022"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":332025,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332022\/revisions\/332025"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/332023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}