PASIGHAT, Apr 3: Padmashree Jadav Payeng, popularly known as 'Forest Man of India' has called upon the people to plant more trees for improving the environment.
Attending an awareness camp cum plantation drive at Siluk village under Mebo subdivision in East Siang district, Payeng appealed to organize more awareness campaign on the need of massive plantation adding that  concerted and noble efforts were required to prevent natural disasters. Forest and wildlife were very important for regulation of environment which in turn has direct and indirect impact on human beings, he said. 
Encouraging people to carry out plantation, Payeng narrated his journey from humble beginnings to becoming the Forest Man of India and elaborated his experience of transforming a barren sandbar to a lush green forest area of about 550 hectares in Kokilamukh, Jorhat. He briefed how he single handedly planted an entire forest after a catastrophic drought and after a life-threatening flood which is now a haven for animals and birds. 
Payeng along with Pasighat East MLA Kaling Moyong, Deputy Commissioner Tayi Taggu, DFO (T) Tashi Mize, ZPC Olen Rome, PMC Chief Okiam Moyong Borang, Mebo ADC Ainstein Koyu and other dignitaries present on the occasion planted hundreds of saplings.
The awareness campaign cum plantation drive was organized by the Swacch Silluk Abhiyan (SSA).

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