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Shyam Sunder Paliwal is a social activist from Piplantri, Rajasthan. He is well-known as ‘Father of Eco-Feminism. He was born on Thursday, 9 July 1964 (age 55 years; as in 2019), in Piplantri, Rajasthan. He studied up to 12th standard. He dropped out of school and worked in a marble company.His father’s name is Bhanwar Lal Paliwal, and his mother’s name is Navali Bai. When Shyam was 6 years old, his mother died due to snakebite. He has five brothers and two sisters. On 30 November 1987, he got married to Anita Paliwal. They were blessed with two daughters, Kiran and Himanshi and one son, Rahul. Shyam’s elder daughter Kiran died due to dehydration when she was 18 years old.

When Padma Shri awardee Shyam Sunder Paliwal, a former Piplantri village council head in Rajasthan’s Rajsamand district, lost his daughter in 2006, he began a campaign in her memory of planting 111 saplings to celebrate the birth of every new-born girl. The panchayat opens a fixed bank deposit account in the name of the new-born as part of the campaign. The parents of the girls are supposed to nurture the saplings and also sign an affidavit saying they would not marry off their daughters before 18 or practising female foeticide. The Piplantri village has, as a result, survived Rajasthan’s chronic drought and water scarcity thanks to the campaign. The campaign has also involved building check dams on the pastures on nearby hills to recharge the groundwater level under Paliwal leadership and turned Rajsamand into an oasis full of trees.

contributions
As soon as he became sarpanch of the village, he started ‘Kiran Nidhi Yojna.’ According to this Yojna, whenever a girl child is born in the village, 111 trees are planted and a fixed deposit of Rs 31000 is made in which Rs. 10000 is contributed by the family of the girl child and rest by the panchayat and other villagers. Shyam Sunder and the people of his village have also planted aloe vera and rose plants and make various products by using it. This has helped in generating employment for the people of Piplantri. He has also started ‘Swajaldhara Yojana,’ to preserve and conserve water, and around 1800 check dams have been constructed in the village. He has also promoted ‘Open Defecation Free India’ project in his village

Awards/Honours
.Paliwal has been awarded India’s fourth-highest civilian award padma shree in the social work category.

.Awarded by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New India Conclave held in Delhi.

.Awarded by Akshay Kumar in New India Conclave, Mumbai.