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SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Jadav Payeng

1963 - Today

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Jadav "Molai" Payeng (born 31 October 1959) is an environmental activist and forestry worker from Majuli, popularly known as the Forest Man of India. Over the course of several decades, he has planted and tended trees on a sandbar of the river Brahmaputra turning it into a forest reserve. The forest, called Molai forest after him, is located near Kokilamukh of Jorhat, Assam, India and encompasses an area of about 1,360 acres / 550 hectares. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jadav Payeng has received more than 1,285,691 page views. Her biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Jadav Payeng is the 566th most popular social activist (down from 493rd in 2019), the 842nd most popular biography from India (down from 834th in 2019) and the 43rd most popular Indian Social Activist.

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  • 20

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  • 3.50

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Jadav Payeng ranks 566 out of 538. Before her are Stanislav Markelov, Jón Páll Sigmarsson, Norma Cruz, Yoani Sánchez, Dorothy Height, and Randa Siniora. After her are Pablo Hasél, Maria Verónica Reina, Charlotte Despard, Derek Chauvin, Matthew Shepard, and Anna Howard Shaw.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1963, Jadav Payeng ranks 577. Before her are Ines Diers, Nicu Vlad, Temir Sariyev, Peter Morgan, Roy Z, and Criss Oliva. After her are Mike Gascoyne, Zhang Yuan, Timothy Kopra, Ahmed Al-Maktoum, Yousuf Al-Thunayan, and Dany Verlinden.

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In India

Among people born in India, Jadav Payeng ranks 842 out of 1,493. Before her are Sonal Mansingh (1944), Virat Kohli (1988), Aruna Roy (1946), Balbir Singh Sr. (1923), N. Chandrababu Naidu (1950), and Jaya Prada (1962). After her are Rohinton Mistry (1952), Charles Correa (1930), Hrishikesh Mukherjee (1922), Aparna Sen (1945), Shobhna Samarth (1916), and Nitin Gadkari (1957).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In India

Among social activists born in India, Jadav Payeng ranks 43. Before her are Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale (1947), Veerappan (1952), Shivakumara Swami (1907), Nirmala Deshpande (1929), Jamnalal Bajaj (1889), and Rajmohan Gandhi (1935). After her are Stan Swamy (1937), Gauri Lankesh (1962), Irom Chanu Sharmila (1972), Manasi Pradhan (1962), Sunitha Krishnan (1972), and Saalumarada Thimmakka (2000).

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