Kalimpong: She may be from this tiny town, but the entire nation recognises her green crusade.
Jyotsna Sitling, an Indian Forest Service (IFS) officer from Kalimpong’s Chivvo Bustee now serving in Uttarakhand, was awarded the nation’s highest environment award — Indira Gandhi Paryavaran Purashkar — in Delhi today.
The award carries a silver lotus, a citation and Rs 5 lakh.
The project director of the World Bank-sponsored Livelihood Improvement Project for the Himalayas in Dehra Dun, Sitling was selected for mobilising social and financial resources for environmental cause between 1995 and 2004.
Thanks to her efforts, the Unesco in July 2005 enlisted the Valley of Flowers National Park in the Nanda Devi Biosphere Reserve as a World Heritage site.
The 1987-batch forest service officer is happy with the honour. “Environment will always top my agenda. My objective is to create a sound environment system with community participation in mountainous areas,” Sitling told from Delhi.
Source: The Telegraph
Jyotsna Sitling, an Indian Forest Service (IFS) officer from Kalimpong’s Chivvo Bustee now serving in Uttarakhand, was awarded the nation’s highest environment award — Indira Gandhi Paryavaran Purashkar — in Delhi today.The award carries a silver lotus, a citation and Rs 5 lakh.
The project director of the World Bank-sponsored Livelihood Improvement Project for the Himalayas in Dehra Dun, Sitling was selected for mobilising social and financial resources for environmental cause between 1995 and 2004.
Thanks to her efforts, the Unesco in July 2005 enlisted the Valley of Flowers National Park in the Nanda Devi Biosphere Reserve as a World Heritage site.
The 1987-batch forest service officer is happy with the honour. “Environment will always top my agenda. My objective is to create a sound environment system with community participation in mountainous areas,” Sitling told from Delhi.
Source: The Telegraph
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