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Meet Jadav Payeng, the man who single-handedly planted an entire forest
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Jadav ‘Molai’ Payeng (55), a native of the Mishing tribe of Jorhat district in Assam, is not an ordinary man. After the destruction caused by the 1979 floods near his birthplace in Assam, Jadav single-handedly transformed an entire patch of barren land into a thick forest.
It all started when Jadav, after completing his Class 10 exams from Baligaon Jagannath Baruah Arya Vidyalaya in Jorhat, returned to Aruna Sapori, a river island on the Brahmaputra. He was shocked to see over a hundred snakes being twisted lifelessly on the deserted sandbar.
I asked my elders what would they do if all of us die one day, like these snakes. They just laughed and smirked, but I knew I had to make the planet greener, he said, according to The Better India.