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greenery along the roadsides The information contained in
has further improved. this book is now very useful to
Friends, The endeavour of researchers, students and forest
Jagdish Prasad Ahirwar ji, from officials.
Panna district in Madhya Pradesh Friends, This same spirit of
is also highly commendable. He environment protection is being
serves as a beat-guard in the seen on a larger scale today.
forest. Once, during a patrol, he With that thought in mind, the
realised that information about 'Ek Ped Maa Ke Naam' campaign
many medicinal plants in the is being run across the country.
forest was not systematically Today, crores of people have
recorded anywhere. Jagdish ji joined this campaign. More
wanted to pass this knowledge than 200 crore trees have been
on to the next generation. That's planted in the country so far. This
why, he began identifying and shows that people are now more
recording medicinal plants. He aware of environment protection
identified over one hundred and and want to contribute in some
twenty five medicinal plants. way or the other.
He collected photograph and My dear countrymen, I
information about name, usage would like to express my deep
and location of each plant. appreciation to all of you for
The Forest Department one more thing. The reason is
compiled the information millets, i.e. Shree Anna. I am
and published it as a book. happy to notice that the people
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