‘Swami Vivekananda Karmayogi Award’ Conferred upon Jadav Payeng

The Forest Man of India, Padma Shri Jadav Payeng has conferred with the prestigious Swami Vivekananda Karmayogi Award on February 29 in New Delhi. The arward is instituted by My Home India for his consistent efforts in creating a real man-made forest through massive reforestation.

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Padma Shri Jadav ‘Molai’ Payeng is an environment activist and forest worker from Jorhat. Over the course of past several years, he planted and tended trees on a sandbar of the river Brahmaputra turning it into a forest reserve.