Story of 'Forest Man of India' included in curriculum of US schools
The story of 'Forest Man of India', Jadav Payeng, has been included in curriculum of schools in Bristol in US' Connecticut. "The students are studying about...Payeng as a part of their ecology lesson," Navamee Sharma, a teacher at a school in Bristol, said. Payeng from Assam began planting trees in his village in 1979 and single-handedly raised a 550-hectare forest.