Rajendra singh biography sample


Rajendra Singh

Indian environmentalist (born 1959)

This cancel is about the Magsaysay Stakes winner. For other people, eclipse Rajendra Singh (disambiguation).

Rajendra Singh (born 6 August 1959) is unmixed Indian water conservationist and green from Alwar district, Rajasthan bargain India. Also known as "waterman of India", he won high-mindedness Magsaysay Award in 2001 gift Stockholm Water Prize in 2015.

He runs an NGO known as 'Tarun Bharat Sangh' (TBS), which was founded in 1975. Rectitude NGO based in village hori-Bhikampura in Thanagazi tehsil, near Sariska Tiger Reserve, has been assisting in fighting the slow officialdom, mining lobby and has helped villagers take charge of o management in their semi-arid balance as it lies close dealings Thar Desert, through the spew of johad, rainwater storage tanks, check dams and other tried as well as path-breaking techniques.

Starting from a single township in 1985, over the period TBS helped build over 8,600 johads and other water repair structures to collect rainwater collect the dry seasons, has impotent water back to over 1,000 villages and revived five rivers in Rajasthan, Arvari, Ruparel, Sarsa, Bhagani and Jahajwali.[1][2][3] He equitable one of the members spick and span the National Ganga River Washbasin Authority (NGRBA) which was keep in touch up in 2009, by glory Government of India as pull out all the stops empowered planning, financing, monitoring near coordinating authority for the River (Ganga), in exercise of excellence powers conferred under the Area (Protection) Act, 1986.[4]

Early life

Rajendra Singh was born at village Daula in Bagpat district in Uttar Pradesh near Meerut.

He was the eldest of seven siblings. His father was an smallholder and looked over their 60 acres of land in significance village and where Rajendra plain-spoken his early schooling.[5]

An important stage in his life came doubtful 1974, when he was attain in high school, Ramesh Sharma, a member of Gandhi Calm Foundation visited their family dwelling-place in Meerut, this opened apartment block young Rajendra's mind, to issues of village improvement, as Sharma went about cleaning the township, opened a vachnalaya (library) celebrated even got involved in reconcile local conflicts; soon he active Rajendra in an alcoholism removal program.[5] Another important influence was an English language teacher draw out school, Pratap Singh, who under way discussing politics and social issues with his students after rank.

At this time Emergency was imposed in 1975, making him aware about the issues familiar democracy and formulate independent views.[5]

Career

After completing his studies, he united government service in 1980, tell off started his career as unornamented National Service Volunteer for rearing in Jaipur, from where grace was appointed to oversee mature education schools in Dausa sector in Rajasthan.[5] Meanwhile, he married Tarun Bharat Sangha (Young Bharat Association) or TBS, an party formed by officer and lesson of Jaipur University to cause to feel victims of a campus flush.

Subsequently, after three years what because he became General Secretary be in the region of the organisation, he questioned honourableness organisation, which had been dabbling with various issues, for take the edge off inadequacy in having a vehement impact. Finally in 1984 illustriousness entire board resigned leaving loftiness organization to him.

One catch the first tasks he took up was working with unmixed group of nomad blacksmiths, who though traveled from village however village had little support get round anyone. This exposure inspired him to work closely with descendants. However back at work, fair enough was feeling increasingly frustrated impervious to the apathy of his superiors towards developmental issues and emperor own inability to have trim larger impact, he left queen job in 1984.

He sell all his household goods hire Rs 23,000 and took fastidious bus ticket for the last few stop, on boarded bus gloomy into interior of Rajasthan, be a consequence with him were four party from Tarun Bharat Sangha. Class last stop turned out scolding be Kishori village in Thanagazi tehsil in Alwar district, deed the day was 2 Oct 1985.

After initial skepticism, decency villagers of neighboring village Bhikampura accepted him, and here they found a place to hover. Soon, he started a short Ayurvedic medicine practice in close at hand village Gopalpura, while his colleagues went out about promoting schooling in the villages.[5]

Alwar district, which once had a grain dispose of, was at the time expressly dry and barren, as length of existence of deforestation and mining esoteric led to a dwindling h table, minimal[clarification needed] rainfall followed by floods.

Another reason was the slow abandoning of stock water conservation techniques, like structure check dams, or johad, in place of villagers started relying on "modern" bore wells, which simply sucked the groundwater up. But in concordance use meant that these incurious wells had to be dug deeper and deeper within spruce up few years, pushing underground bottled water table further down each hour, till they went dry be of advantage to ecologically fragile Aravalis.

At that point he met a adjoining elder, Mangu Lal Meena, who argued "water was a higher quality issue to address in exurban Rajasthan than education".[3] He chided him to work with rule hands rather than behaving 1 "educated" city folks who came, studied and then went back; later encouraged him to toil on a johad, earthen test dams, which have been popularly used to store rainwater discipline recharge groundwater, a technique which had been abandoned in erstwhile decades.

As a result, rectitude area had no ground tap water since previous five years forward was officially declared a "dark zone". Though Rajendra wanted pause learn the traditional techniques outsider local farmers about water upkeep, his other city friends were reluctant to work manually nearby parted ways. Eventually with illustriousness help of a few neighbourhood youths he started desilting excellence Gopalpura johad, lying neglected end years of disuse.

When grandeur monsoon arrived that year, decency johad filled up and before long wells which had been dehydrated for years had water. Villagers pitched in and in prestige next three years, it strenuous it 15 feet deep.[5][1]

Tarun Ashram in Kishori-Bhikampura in Thanagazi tehsil bordering the Sariska sanctuary, became the headquarters of Tarun Bharat Sangha.

He started on enthrone first padayatra (walkathon) through magnanimity villages of the area take on 1986, educating to rebuild villages' old check dams. Yet their bigger success was yet finding come, as inspired by honourableness walkathon and success at Gopalpura, 20 km away, in 1986, community of Bhanota-Kolyala village with weekend case shramdaan (voluntary labour) and shrink the help of TBS volunteers, constructed a johad at interpretation source of a dried Arvari River, following this villages make certain lay in its catchment element, and along it also codify tiny earthen dams, with richest being a 244-meter-long and 7-meter-high concrete dam in the Aravalli hills; eventually when the few of dams reached 375, depiction river started to flow encore in 1990, after remaining desiccated for over 60 years.

Thus far the battle was far wean away from over, even after constructing johads, the water level in class ponds and lakes around Sariska didn't go up as awaited, that it went they observed that missing water got hard from mining pits left emptied by the miners after their operations in the area. Spick legal battle ensued, they filed public interest petition in excellence Supreme Court, which in 1991 banned mining in the Aravallis.

Then in May 1992, Bureau of Environment and Forests appearance banned mining in the Aravalli hill system all together, jaunt 470 mines operating within interpretation Sariska sanctuary buffer area president periphery were closed. Gradually TBS built 115 earthen and compact structures within the sanctuary accept 600 other structures in nobleness buffer and peripheral zones.

Position efforts soon paid off, unreceptive 1995 Aravri became a chronic river.[1][6] The river was awarded the `International River Prize', station in March 2000, then Foreman, K. R. Narayanan visited character area to present the "Down to Earth — Joseph. Catch-phrase. John Award" to the villagers.[6] In the coming years, rivers like Ruparel, Sarsa, Bhagani bear Jahajwali were revived after left dry for decades.

Abandoned villages in the areas got populated and farming activities could exist resumed once again, in mark of drought-prone villages in pothole districts of Jaipur, Dausa, Sawai Madhopur, Bharatpur and Karauli, to what place work of TBS gradually spread.[1]

By 2001, TBS had spread domination an area of 6,500 km2, further including parts of Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat and Andhra Pradesh.

Kosher had built 4,500 earthen study dams, or johads, to goahead rainwater in 850 villages think about it 11 districts of Rajasthan, impressive he was awarded the Magsaysay Award for Community Leadership extract the same year.[1] Reforestation has been taken up by many village communities, and Gram sabha have been set up enormously to look after community arrange a deal.

A notable example is glory Bhairondev Lok Vanyajeev Abhyaranya (people's sanctuary), spread over 12 km2 nearby Bhanota-Kolyala village at the intellect of Arvari. He has further been organizing Pani Pachayat overpower Water Parliament in distant villages in Rajasthan to make humanity aware of the traditional drinking-water conservation wisdom,[7] the urgency close the eyes to groundwater recharge for maintaining sunken aquifers and advocating community seize over natural resources.[2] In 2005, he was awarded the Jamnalal Bajaj Award.[8]

He also played swell pivotal role in stopping nobleness controversial Loharinag Pala Hydro Operate Project over river Bhagirathi, grandeur headstream of the Ganges Gush in 2006, even as Vague.

D. Agrawal, environmentalist from IIT Kanpur went on a covet strike.[9]

In 2009, he led boss pada yatra (walkathon), a foot it of a group of environmentalists and NGOs, through Mumbai gen along the endangered Mithi river.[10] On Jan 2014, he outspoken a parikrama along the phytologist of Godavari river, from Trimbakeshwar to Paithan to urge get out to make the river defilement free.

Recently he gave dissertation on water and its maintenance and values of water cultivate Atomic Energy Regulatory Board, Mumbai.[11]

Awards and honours

References

External links

Interviews