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Commonwealth Points of Light Award
April 8 , 2020
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- The Environmental activist Jadav Payeng, also called the ‘Forest Man’ of India, was named as the winner of the 128th Commonwealth Points of Light Award.
- The award recognizes people across the 53 Commonwealth nations for their exceptional contributions towards the community.
- Payeng of Assam had transformed a treeless sandbar along the Brahmaputra river into a vast wildlife shelter.
- He was born in the indigenous Mising tribe of Assam.
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