Padma Awards 2019

Recipients announced for 2019 that we have profiled so far (2 Padma Shri). The official list is published by the Ministry of Home Affairs.

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Daitari Naik

A tribal farmer from Keonjhar who spent years cutting a canal from the Gonasika hills with a hoe and crowbar, bringing water to dry farmland.

Known as the "Lady Tarzan of Jharkhand", she organised village women to guard their sal forests against illegal logging.