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'''Pamela chatterrjee''' is a writer and rural activist in India. Her project reclaimed 625,000 hectares of land. She has been recognised with the [[Nari Shakti Puraskar]] award. It is the highest award for women in India.

== Life ==
She was born in about 1930.<ref name=govbiog/>

Chatterjee lives in Kumaon Region in Uttaranchal State in India.<ref name=book>{{Cite book|last1=Chatterjee|first1=Pamela|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zTBnAAAAMAAJ&q=Pamela+Chatterjee&dq=Pamela+Chatterjee|title=Listen to the mountains: a Himalayan journal|last2=Addor-Confino|first2=Catherine|date=2005|publisher=Viking, Penguin Books India|language=en}}</ref>

Chatterjee, supported by the [[World Bank]], was able to reclaim 4,600 hectares of land. The project started with 95 farmers but over two years the numbers increased.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://bookstore.teri.res.in/books/9788179934401|title=The Jamun Tree and other stories on the environment by Pamela Chatterjee buy online|website=bookstore.teri.res.in|access-date=2020-04-11}}</ref> The land in question had too much sodium and is known as [[Sodic soil]]. The first harvests of [[Paddy (unmilled rice)|Paddy]] from the land showed a higher yield than traditional fields.<ref name=govbiog>{{Citation|last=India|first=Government of|title=English: Pamela Chatterjee biog from official twitter feed|date=2018-03-08|url=https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pamela_Chatterjee_biog.jpg|access-date=2020-04-12}}</ref>

She published "Listen to the mountains: a Himalayan journal" in 2005.<ref name=book/>

Eventually there were 10,000 farmers and the land reclaimed was 625,000 hectares.<ref name=":0" />

[[file:Ram Nath Kovind presenting the Nari Shakti Puruskar for the year 2018 to Ms. Pamela Chatterjee H2019030865841.jpg|thumb|left|President [[Ram Nath Kovind]] presenting the Nari Shakti Puruskar to Chatterjee]]

She wrote up her experiences with the farm as a book titled "The Jamun Tree" which was published in 2012.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Chatterjee|first=Pamela|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tGEMEc4zjhEC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Pamela+Chatterjee#q=Pamela%20Chatterjee|title=The Jamun Tree and other Stories on the Environment|date=2012-01-01|publisher=The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI)|isbn=978-81-7993-440-1|language=en}}</ref> It describes the project and includes recollections from those involved.<ref name=":0" /> The book was dedicated to the spiritual leader [[Ramesh Oza]] and released by Dr [[Ashok Khosla]] at the Delhi office of the World Bank.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://sashram.org/component/content/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=9&Itemid=113|title=Sarvodaya Ashram|website=sashram.org|access-date=2020-04-11}}</ref>

She was given the [[Nari Shakti Puraskar]] award in 2017. The award was made in the Presidential Palace by the President of India. Prime Minister [[Narendra Modi]] was present.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://narishaktipuraskar.wcd.gov.in/gallery|title=Nari Shakti Puraskar - Gallery|website=narishaktipuraskar.wcd.gov.in|access-date=2020-04-11}}</ref>

== References ==
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{{Nari Shakti Puraskar}}

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