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{{Infobox person<br />
| name = Dukhu Majhi <br />
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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1945|1|1}}<br />
| birth_place = Sindri, [[Baghmundi]], [[Manbhum]], [[Bihar]] (presently [[Purulia district|Purulia]], [[West Bengal]])<br />
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| other_names = Gachh Dadu (Tree Grandfather) <br />
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| movement = Tree Plantation<br />
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| awards =[[File:Padma Shri India IIIe Klasse.jpg|20px]] [[Padma Shri]] (2024)<ref>{{cite web<br />
|title = SHRI DUKHU MAJHI<br />
|url = https://www.padmaawards.gov.in/Document/pdf/CitationsForTickets/2024/202472.pdf<br />
|publisher = [[Ministry of Home Affairs (India)]]<br />
|access-date = 2 August 2024}}</ref><br />
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'''Dukhu Majhi''' is an [[environmental activist]] from [[West Bengal]]. He has planted more than 5,000 trees in the last five decades.<ref>{{cite web<br />
| url = https://growbilliontrees.com/blogs/knowledge/dukhu-majhi-bengals-padma-shri-hero-grows-a-forest-with-5-000-trees<br />
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20240801164944/https://growbilliontrees.com/blogs/knowledge/dukhu-majhi-bengals-padma-shri-hero-grows-a-forest-with-5-000-trees<br />
| archive-date = 1 August 2024<br />
| title = Dukhu Majhi: Bengal's Padma Shri Hero Grows a Forest with 5,000 Trees<br />
| date = 2 February 2024<br />
| website = growbilliontrees.com<br />
| access-date = 1 August 2024<br />
}}</ref> In 2024 Government of India awarded him the [[Padma Shri]] award, the country's fourth-highest civilian honour for his contribution to society in the field of Environment- Afforestation.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-01-26 |title=From the man who planted over 5,000 trees to the original singer of 'Boroloker Bitilo', 8 from West Bengal get Padma Shri |url=https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/kolkata/8-from-west-bengal-get-padma-shri-9129290/ |access-date=2024-08-01 |website=The Indian Express |language=en}}</ref><br />
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== Biography ==<br />
Dukhu Majhi was born in Sindri village, [[Purulia district|Purulia]], [[West Bengal]]. Although he never received any formal education, he realized at the age of fifteen that trees are extremely beneficial in human life. He is the man behind increasing greenery of terrain of the [[Ajodhya Hills]].<ref>{{cite book<br />
|title = AKHSAR SANGLAP BORSHO BARAN SANKHYA 1426<br />
|publisher = AKHSAR SANGLAP PRAKASHAN<br />
|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=cVnvDwAAQBAJ<br />
|editor-last = Ballav<br />
|editor-first = Utpal<br />
|year = 2019<br />
|page = 28 <br />
|language = bn<br />
|quote = }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title = Man's passion for planting saplings in Bengal's remote region draws attention<br />
|last1 = Giri<br />
|first1 = Anil<br />
|editor1-last = Acharya<br />
|editor1-first = Ashutosh<br />
|url = https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/padma-shri-award-dukhu-majhi-purulia-west-bengal-ajodhya-hills-2494081-2024-01-27<br />
|date = 27 January 2024<br />
|access-date = 2 August 2024<br />
|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20240802004449/https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/padma-shri-award-dukhu-majhi-purulia-west-bengal-ajodhya-hills-2494081-2024-01-27<br />
|archive-date = 2 August 2024<br />
|publisher = [[India Today]]<br />
|place= [[Purulia]]}}</ref> Since then, he began to plant trees in the fields, meadows, crematoria. Wherever he saw empty places, he tended by planting saplings. At the age of 79, he still went out by his bicycle in the morning with two tin containers carrying some water, spade and shovel for planting trees.<ref>{{cite news |title = Man's passion for planting saplings in Bengal's remote region draws attention<br />
|last1 = Thakur<br />
|first1 = Joydeep<br />
|last2 = Pal<br />
|first2 = Sreyasi<br />
|url = https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/kolkata-news/dukhu-majhi-the-man-who-plants-trees-to-create-shade-and-oxygen-in-barren-west-bengal-wins-national-award-101693538212465.html<br />
|date = 1 September 2023<br />
|access-date = 2 August 2024<br />
|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20240802003706/https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/kolkata-news/dukhu-majhi-the-man-who-plants-trees-to-create-shade-and-oxygen-in-barren-west-bengal-wins-national-award-101693538212465.html<br />
|archive-date = 2 August 2024<br />
|publisher = [[Hindustan Times]]}}</ref><br />
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== References ==<br />
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{{Padma Shri Award Recipients in Social Work|state=collapsed}}<br />
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[[Category:Indian environmentalists]]<br />
[[Category:1945 births]]<br />
[[Category:Living people]]<br />
[[Category:Recipients of the Padma Shri in social work]]<br />
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