Jadav Payeng wants tree plantation to be taught at schools around the world

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• Mar 21, 2023 | Dhupali Das

Environmental activist Jadav Payeng, also known as the "Forest Man of India" has stated that schools should teach children all over the world...

Digital Desk: Environmental activist Jadav Payeng, also known as the "Forest Man of India" has stated that schools should teach children all over the world to plant trees and to love mother earth. 

The Padmashri awardee, who is from Assam, lamented the fact that young minds are not taught to adore and respect mother earth at schools.

"The school curriculum across the world should teach the children to plant trees. Children should get practical knowledge of plantation as it will prove helpful to turn the earth green. While the new National Education Policy of India has included this aspect, it will take some time to trickle down before it is practised," he told PTI on the sidelines of the C-20 meeting in Nagpur.

Payeng said that he and a team of 50 people are working on an initiative to plant trees on 2,000 hectares of Majuli island in Assam, which will provide food for elephants, rhinos, and deer in the forest.

Majuli is a river island in the Brahmaputra river in Assam.

Payeng had spent decades planting and nurturing trees on a sandbar of the Brahmaputra River, transforming it into a forest reserve. The forest, called Molai forest after him, is located near Kokilamukh of Jorhat.