https://en.bharatpedia.org/w/api.php?action=feedcontributions&feedformat=atom&user=115.113.198.248Bharatpedia - User contributions [en]2026-08-18T09:35:17ZUser contributionsMediaWiki 1.43.6https://en.bharatpedia.org/w/index.php?title=T._G._K._Menon&diff=298914T. G. K. Menon2021-10-22T16:39:43Z<p>115.113.198.248: </p>
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| name = T. G. K. Menon<br />
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| birth_date = 2 March 1940<br />
| birth_place = [[Kodungallur]], [[Thrissur]], India<br />
| death_date = 12 June 2021<br />
| death_place = Indore (Madhya Pradesh)<br />
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| occupation = Social worker<br>Environmentalist<br />
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| awards = [[Padma Shri]]<br>[[Jamnalal Bajaj Award]]}}<br />
'''Thacheril Govindan Kutty Menon''' is an Indian social worker and environmentalist.<ref name="Energy Agriculture and Environment">{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EjZjyOhVrJYC&q=T+G+K+Menon&pg=PR6 | title=Energy Agriculture and Environment | publisher=Mittal Publications | author=S. S. Tomar | year=1995 | pages=213 | isbn=9788170996132}}</ref> His contributions are reported in the introduction of environmentally friendly irrigation and farming techniques under the aegis of Kasturbagram in [[Indore]], [[Madhya Pradesh]]. He is known to have promoted bio-dynamic agriculture in India.<ref name="What is Bio-Dynamic Agriculture?">{{cite web | url=http://www.biodynamics.in/ | title=What is Bio-Dynamic Agriculture? | publisher=Biodynamics | date=2015 | access-date=13 October 2015}}</ref> He received the [[Jamnalal Bajaj Award]] in 1989.<ref name="Jamnalal Bajaj Award">{{cite web | url=http://www.jamnalalbajajfoundation.org/awards/archives/1989/science-and-technology/shri-tgk-menon | title=Jamnalal Bajaj Award | publisher=Jamnalal Bajaj Foundation | date=2015 | access-date=13 October 2015 }}{{Dead link|date=June 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=no }}</ref> The Government of India awarded him the fourth highest civilian honour of the [[Padma Shri]] in 1991.<ref name="Padma Awards">{{cite web | url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf | title=Padma Awards | publisher=Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India | date=2015 | access-date=21 July 2015}}</ref><br />
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