Assam, Nov 3: Good deeds don’t go unnoticed. The awe-inspiring story of Forest man, Jadav Payeng, also known as“The Forest Man of India” has now become a part of the ecology schoolbooks in the Greene Hills School in Bristol, Connecticut in the USA. The students will learn about the importance of conserving the environment through his story. The school’s sixth-grade curriculum now includes a chapter on how the Padma Shri recipient witnessed ecological degradation on his island, and transformed a 550-acre barren sandbar of the Brahmaputra in Majuli, into a thriving forest. The forest is called ‘Molai Forest’, and plantation was started in 1979. It is situated near Kokilamukh in Jorhat district, Assam.
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