Jadav Payeng, Forest Man of India honoured with Swami Vivekananda Karmayogi Award

GUWAHATI: Forest Man of India Jadav Payeng will be awarded with Swami Vivekananda Karmayogi Award.

The ceremony organized by My Home India will take place at 4.30 pm at the Constitution Club in New Delhi on February 29.

He was also honoured with a Padma Shri a few years ago.

Forest Man of India Jadav Payeng an environmental activist from Jorhat in Assam and much revered member of the Bugun indigenous group, Indi Glow who is also known for his conservation-and community-friendly eco-tourism business at Eaglenest Wildlife Sanctuary in West Kameng district. A person who made his own identity by planting and tendering trees on a sandbar of the Brahmaputra River and turned it into a forest over the years, Jadav Payeng is a much known and loved name in the state today.

Jadav Payeng is now scripting a new conservation story – a book on the protection of the environment.

“It’s a small step from me to inspire millions of people on the conservation of the environment. The book is set to benefit students to get knowledge of forestation and the environment. I’m writing the book so as to make people aware of what environment exactly is and take initiative on their part to protect it. Assam is a state where the environment with the greenery around can be best understood. If we work for the conversation of the environment, it will certainly boost tourist flow to the State,” Payeng had said.

It is worth mentioning that, Payeng, the forest man of India and also a forest department worker is misinterpreted in the textbooks of schools in Maharashtra State Board of Secondary Education and the matter has been taken up seriously by the Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal.

Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal, on noticing the erroneous” description of ‘Forest Man of India’ Jadav Payeng, has decided to write to the Maharashtra government seeking an immediate correction of the information provided in the texts. It is seen that the textbook has mentioned Jadav Payeng as a member of a nomadic tribe which is certainly a wrong information about him.

After talking to the ethnic Mising community representatives, the chief minister assured them that he would write to the Maharashtra government to register Assam’s reservation. Notably, Payeng belongs to Mishing community and not a nomadic tribe.

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