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Satyakam Arya, (2nd left) Managing Director and CEO of Daimler India Commercial Vehicles (DICV) presenting thirty first version of Dr. M.S. Swaminathan Environmental Protection 2025 award to N. Devakumar Sahala Samrudha from Mysuru and Veerappan from Cuddalore alongside RTN Dr. Soumya Swaminathan, Chairperson, MSSRF, C.Ok. Ranganathan, Founder of CavinKare group and RTN Balaji Sreenivasan, President Rotary Club of Madras East throughout the M.S. Swaminathan a centesimal 12 months celebration in Chennai on Sunday. | Photo Credit: B. JOTHI RAMALINGAM
The first award was given to Sahaja Samrudha, from Mysuru, a folks’s motion to protect India’s conventional farming practices and preserve the wealthy biodiversity of indigenous crop varieties. In his acceptance speech, N. Devakumar from Sahaja Samrudha identified that how the group has been instrumental in conserving conventional paddy varieties and millets.
The second recipient of the award was 60-year-old Veerappan, an Irular fisherman from Kalaignar Nagar village. He was honoured for his contributions within the subject of environmental safety. In his acceptance speech, Mr. Veerappan defined how his workforce propagated mud crabs. “I now prepare school college students in crab and fish propagation,” he added.
The Dr. M.S. Swaminathan Award is offered to both a person, an organization, or an NGO that has contributed, both immediately or not directly, to enhancing environmental safety and consciousness. This initiative is being supported by CavinKare Pvt. Ltd.
The occasion was presided over by Balaji Sreenivasan, President, Rotary Club of Madras East (RCME), District Governor Vinod Saraogi, and C.Ok. Ranganathan, Chairman and Managing Director of CavinKare.
Soumya Swaminathan, chairperson of the M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation, mentioned that the mangrove safety work initiated within the early Nineties in villages like MGR Nagar and Kalaignar Nagar in Cuddalore district performed a significant position in safeguarding the villagers throughout the tsunami. She additionally emphasised that coastal areas stay among the many most weak to the impacts of local weather change.
Ms. Swaminathan recalled a current initiative by her workforce, carried out with the help of native volunteers, to deal with plastic air pollution. “We cleaned 100 seashores with native volunteers. More than 30,000 kg of plastic waste was collected and out of that 10,000 kg was ghost gear (waste nets thrown away by fishermen) – they’re harmful as a result of they lure turtles, dolphins and quite a lot of marine life,” she mentioned.
Published – September 29, 2025 05:45 am IST
