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Early on, he fought against untouchability and later started organising hill women in his anti-liquor drive from 1965 to 1970. [8] He started social activities at the age of 13, under the guidance of Shri Dev Suman , who was a nationalist spreading a message of non-violence, [ 9 ] and he was with the Congress Party of Uttar Pradesh at the time ...
Licypriya Kangujam (Meitei pronunciation: [lisipɾija kaŋŋud͡ʒɐm]; born 2 October 2011) is a child environmental activist from India. [2] One of the youngest climate activists globally, she addressed world leaders at the 2019 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Madrid, Spain, asking them to take immediate climate action.
Arun Krishnamurthy (born 1986) is an Indian environmental activist who has initiated the campaign of cleaning various lakes across India. He is known for founding the Environmentalist Foundation of India (EFI) 2011 based in Chennai which has its branches in 15 states and other cities such as Hyderabad, Delhi and Coimbatore.
Ridhima Pandey (born 2008) [1] is an Indian environmental activist who advocates for action against climate change.She has been likened to Greta Thunberg. [2] When she was nine years old, she filed a suit against the Indian government for not taking enough steps to combat climate change. [3]
The Right Livelihood Award — known as the “Alternative Nobel” — was awarded Thursday to environment activists from Kenya and Cambodia, a human right defender from Ghana and a humanitarian ...
Sunita Narain (born 1961) is an Indian environmentalist and political activist as well as a major proponent of the Green concept of sustainable development. [1] Narain is director general of the India-based research institute for the Centre for Science and Environment, director of the Society for Environmental Communications, and editor of the fortnightly magazine, Down To Earth.
Sumaira Abdulali has been called the Indian 'Minister of Noise' by Government officers and by the press. [11]In 2003, Abdulali filed public interest litigation in coordination with the Bombay Environment Action Group, Dr. Yeshwant Oke and Dr. Prabhakar Rao in the Bombay High Court demanding the demarcation of silence zones. [12]
The Ganga Action Plan or GAP was a program launched by Rajiv Gandhi in April 1986 to reduce the pollution load on the river. But the efforts to decrease the pollution level in the river became abortive even after spending ₹ 9017.1 million (~190 million USD adjusting to inflation). [13] Therefore, this plan was withdrawn on 31 March 2000.