Jadav "Molai" Payeng is a forest conservationist and forestry worker from Majuli, popularly known as the Forest Man of India. Over the course of several decades, he has planted and tended trees on a s
Forest Man of India
Jadav Payeng receiving Padma Shri award from President Pranab Mukherjee
Majuli is the largest river island in Assam, a state in Northeast India. It is bordered by the Brahmaputra River to the south and east, the Subansiri River to the west, and an anabranch of the Brahmap
Jadav Payeng
…Jadav "Molai" Payeng (born 31 October 1959) is a forest conservationist and forestry worker from Majuli, popularly known as the Forest Man of India. Over the course of several decades, he has planted and tended trees on a sandbar of the river Brahmaputra…