{"id":310182,"date":"2019-03-05T06:39:57","date_gmt":"2019-03-05T06:39:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=310182"},"modified":"2019-03-06T08:23:27","modified_gmt":"2019-03-06T08:23:27","slug":"padamshree-avdhash-kaushal-bestowed-with-environment-health-warrior-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/padamshree-avdhash-kaushal-bestowed-with-environment-health-warrior-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Padamshree Avdhash Kaushal bestowed with Environment &#038; Health Warrior Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/padamshree-avdhash-kaushal-bestowed-with-environment-health-warrior-award\/avdhash-kaushal_environment-health-warrior-award-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-310183\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-310183 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Avdhash-Kaushal_Environment-Health-Warrior-Award-2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"641\" height=\"481\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/Avdhash-Kaushal_Environment-Health-Warrior-Award-2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/Avdhash-Kaushal_Environment-Health-Warrior-Award-2-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/Avdhash-Kaushal_Environment-Health-Warrior-Award-2-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/Avdhash-Kaushal_Environment-Health-Warrior-Award-2-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/Avdhash-Kaushal_Environment-Health-Warrior-Award-2-265x198.jpg 265w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/Avdhash-Kaushal_Environment-Health-Warrior-Award-2-696x522.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/Avdhash-Kaushal_Environment-Health-Warrior-Award-2-560x420.jpg 560w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/Avdhash-Kaushal_Environment-Health-Warrior-Award-2.jpg 1032w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 641px) 100vw, 641px\" \/><\/a>On Saturday Padamshree Avdhash Kaushal was bestowed with <strong>Environment &amp; Health Warrior Award <\/strong>on <strong>Individual Achievements \u2013 as an Academic and Activist. <\/strong>He received the prestigious award at Dr. Ambedkar Interntional Centre, Janpath, New Delhi by the known magazine Talaash.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Avdhash Kaushal and RLEK fought for justice against the indiscriminate mining in the Mussoorie area, famously known as the Limestone mining case. Kaushal\u2019s initiatives led to the promulgation of Environment Protection Act, 1986. The Sahastradhara area which was deforested due to these mines, was regreened by Kaushal with the help of citizens, volunteers and school students. Avdhash Kaushal was also awarded Padamshree in 1986 for his efforts to save the environment and his work towards the tribal and marginalized communities of Uttarakhand.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Kaushal served as Professor at LBSNAA, Mussoorie and is currently running an NGO- Rural Litigation and Entitlement Kendra (RLEK). Here students from India and abroad come and learn about the Environment Protection Act.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday Padamshree Avdhash Kaushal was bestowed with Environment &amp; Health Warrior Award on Individual Achievements \u2013 as an Academic and Activist. He received the prestigious award at Dr. Ambedkar Interntional Centre, Janpath, New Delhi by the known magazine Talaash. Avdhash Kaushal and RLEK fought for justice against the indiscriminate mining in the Mussoorie area, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":310183,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310182"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310182"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":310185,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310182\/revisions\/310185"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/310183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}