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Harekala Hajabba

A Mangaluru orange seller who could not read, yet used his small daily earnings to build a school for the children of his village.

Known as the "Forest Man of India", he turned a bare sandbar in the Brahmaputra into a forest of over a thousand acres, mostly by himself.

A shepherd from Mandya who dug 16 ponds on a dry hillside with his own hands, praised in Mann Ki Baat for his water conservation work.

A self-taught tribal farmer from Maharashtra who built a community seed bank to save native crop varieties, honoured with the Padma Shri.

A Halakki tribal woman from Karnataka who spent her life raising saplings and caring for forests, honoured with the Padma Shri.