JADAV PAYENG, THE FOREST MAN OF INDIA
Had an interactive lecture session with the Forest Man of india Mr Jadav Payeng during tecnoesis (tech fest of NIT Silchar). He is man who create forest.
Since past man has tried to fulfill his requirements by doing enormous harm to our earth. He is considered to be the most intelligent animal ever born in this earth and has tried to take every advantages he can by contributing very few in return to the mother Earth.The day he has learnt to built from that day he has gained a title as a deforest-er. Industries, automobiles,etc all products of human beings has created deforestation, pollution and resulting in climate change ,unbalanced ecosystem etc.But none of his inventions and discoveries have ever tried to create the Earth.There is a limitation for everything to bear stress applied to it and when it overcomes the limitation, it results destruction.Same thing happens in our earth and so we face natural disasters that ruins us completely.
But this man change it.He proofed that man can also be titled as Afforest-er or creator of forest.He hails from Jorhat, Assam, India. Over the course of many decades he spent planting trees on a sandbar of the river Brahmaputra turning it into a forest names as MOLAI forest which surrounds an area of 1360 acres.He work was first discovered by a journalist of Jorhat named Jitu Kalita, who out focus the man in the world and help him to spread Payeng's moto in the entire world.
Payeng was honoured at a public function
arranged by the School of Environmental Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University on 22 April 2012 for his remarkable achievement. He shared
his experience of creating a forest in an interactive session, where Magsaysay Award winner Rajendra Singh and JNU vice-chancellor Sudhir Kumar
Sopory were present. Sopory named Jadav Payeng as "Forest Man of India". In
the month of October 2013, he was honoured at Indian Institute
of Forest Management during their annual event Coalescence.
A short documentry of Payeng as published in
Youtube by William D McMaster
During the interaction series in
our campus he motivated every students to contribute something to the Earth by
planting trees. He expressed his emotions to every Indians that many people
from India has attained great career in their entire life, gained degrees
recognition etc, even many are having a great career in abroad, and
every one of them wants that when they die they their body should meet their
motherland India. But has anyone tried to contribute anything to nature?, only
a few might have done this. He concluded his lecture that if we have learnt to
exploit we should learnt to rebuilt.
Such people have the idea to CHANGE and they do it. If we are not able to contribute like them it’s better to follow them, support them and make a huge change.
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