Kerala environmentalist Sreeman Narayanan will get 26th PV Thampy Memorial Endowment Award

Sreeman Narayanan
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Previously 10 years, Sreeman Narayanan, a resort proprietor from Muppathadam, Aluva, has distributed over one lakh water feeders for birds. He would get earthen pots produced from potters in Keezhmadu in Aluva and Thathapilly in Paravur and distribute them to homes and establishments close by. Yearly, he would distribute no less than 10,000 such water feeders to varied elements of Ernakulam district.

On March 27, 2022, within the 87th episode of Mann Ki Baat, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s radio present talked about Narayanan’s work and shortly he was flooded with calls. “Individuals and establishments from across the nation known as me, some gave orders for feeders, some establishments adopted the idea and have applied it since,” says Narayanan.

Seventy-three-year-old Narayanan is the recipient of the 26th PV Thampy Memorial Endowment Award, which he obtained on November 15. Instituted by journalist and environmentalist PV Thampy, the award honours atypical individuals who have achieved extraordinary work in environmental conservation. “For the previous 25 years, now we have been capable of establish and acknowledge the efforts of people that have contributed significantly to the setting in their very own methods,” says Ranjith Thampy, a socio-environmental activist and the son of P V Thampy.  “Narayanan’s ongoing work has been inspirational,” he provides.

Although the feeders are distributed just a little forward of the summer season months, Narayanan’s marketing campaign, ‘An earthen pot for all times giving water’, helped create consciousness on the necessity to shield hen life in and across the metropolis. He will get orders for these feeders usually. “I’ve folks contacting me to order 300 to 400 pots. When water sources dry up in summer season, birds need to fly lengthy distances looking for water. All we have to do is to place out a pot of water to assist a hen survive.” 

Since 2013, he has been concerned in a number of greening initiatives in and round Muppathadam. He launched a tree yajna seven years in the past and began amassing fruit tree saplings and distributing them yearly on June 5 to mark World Surroundings Day. Up to now, he has distributed 4 lakh saplings to particular person homes and residential associations. Along with this, he has distributed 10,000 fruit tree saplings to homes in Muppathadam. “We gave mango and jackfruit tree saplings, which if maintained properly, can bear fruit as much as 200 years,” says Narayanan.

He ensured that the saplings had been planted in these households and had a group of people that would verify on their progress. “If multiple tree was planted in a plot, we request the family members to depart the fruits of 1 tree untouched for the birds and squirrels to feed on. If it is only one tree, we ask them to depart the fruits on one department ,” Narayanan provides. “We named these timber ‘Gandhi timber’ and a few of them are bearing fruit,” he provides. Narayanan doesn’t settle for sponsorships and buys the saplings to be distributed himself. 

As a part of the eighth tree yajna, Narayanan goals to distribute one lakh neem timber to 1 lakh households in Ernakulam district. On June 5 this yr, the primary part of the marketing campaign was launched. “Neem timber have medicinal properties and these timber are the necessity of the hour. They’d assist deliver down air air pollution ranges. It’s stated that one neem tree equals 50 timber,” he provides. 

His resort, Dwaraka, has just a little studying nook, which he calls the ‘information desk’, the place one can discover each Malayalam newspaper and two English newspapers. “Those that come right here to relish tea, snacks or have a meal, ought to be capable of nourish their minds too,” he says.