It takes one man to change the world

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This man named Jadhav, after giving his 10th exam, was roaming on the rain-soaked sandy banks of the Brahmaputra river in his village as the flood waters had receded.

Then his eyes fell on a huge bunch of about 100 dead snakes. After this, he went ahead and saw that the entire river bank was filled with dead animals and resembled a crematorium.

There was no place to stand because of the bodies of the dead creatures. The sight of this painful mass innocent death shook the mind of Kishore Jadhav.

The lifeless, wide open eyes of thousands of lifeless animals did not let Jadhav sleep for many nights. During a discussion, a man from the village told the distraught Jadhav that when trees and plants are not growing, then where will the animals find shelter on the sandy banks of the river to escape the floods?

How will they get food without the forest? This thing touched Jadhav's heart and he vowed to plant trees to save the animals.

16-year-old Jadhav reached with 50 seeds and 25 bamboo trees to plant them on the sandy bank of the river.

This incident is 35 years old from today.

That was the day and today is the day. Can we imagine that in these 35 years Jadhav has created a dense forest on 1360 acres of land without any government help.

Can we believe that a single man planted that forest

5 Bengal tigers, more than 100 deers, wild boars, a herd of 150 wild elephants, rhinoceros and many other wild animals are roaming around peacefully, including snakes, which have been made the pride of this forest by this amazing Karmayogi.

To increase the area of forest, I would cycle 5 kms from 9 am and cross the river, plant a tree on the other side and then cross the river again in the evening and cycle again.

Would return home after covering 5 kilometres.

In this forest planted by him, there are jackfruit, gulmohar, pineapple, bamboo, sal, teak, custard apple, mango, banyan, mulberry, jamun, peach and many medicinal plants.

The surprising and unfortunate fact is that this seeker who accomplished this impossible task was unknown in the country till five years ago.

This warrior of action was working alone in his own tune in the jungle of Assam on his bicycle with a bag full of plants in the jungle he had created. He first came into the eyes of the country in the year 2010 when a wild photographer

“Jitu Kalita” made a documentary film on them “The Molai Forest”

This film was shown in the country's renowned universities. The second film was Aarti Shrivastav's "Foresting Life" which showed the untouched aspects and problems of Jadhav's life.

The third film “Forest Man” was also highly appreciated in foreign film festivals.

A single person did this to protect the environment without the help of the forest department, without any government financial assistance.

Coming from such a backward area that he did not even have a “Ration Card” as an identity card, he created an entire forest spread over thousands of acres.

Those who knew him honoured his work and named this forest after him.

This forest of Assam

It is called “Mishing Jungle”.

(Jadhav belongs to the Mishing tribe of Assam). He has raised cows to earn a living. Even after the lions ate his domestic animals, which were his means of livelihood, his compassion for wild animals did not diminish. He believes and says that the lions harmed me because they do not know how to farm to satisfy their hunger.

You destroy the forests, they will destroy you.

Jadhav, who was awarded the country's fourth highest civilian award "Padma Shri" by His Excellency the "President" a year ago, still lives in a small one-room bamboo hut in Assam and is engrossed in his old daily routine.

Despite all the government efforts and purchase of saplings worth lakhs of rupees in the name of tree plantation, the environment and forest department could not achieve the position which was achieved by the willpower of a single person. He is absorbed in his sadhana as a selfless worshipper in the continuous sadhana of the green nature by riding a bicycle on the forest trails with a bag full of saplings and a spade.

So it can be said that sometimes “a single gram can not only break a furnace but can also shatter it.”

Thousands of salutes and salutations.

Best regards.

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