Shyam Sundar Paliwal is a notable social activist from Piplantri which is a village situated in the Rajsamand area in Rajasthan.
The previous sarpanch of Piplantri lost his girl in 2006 when she was 18 of serious dehydration, a generally preventable affliction that stays a main source of death for kids in India and now and again kills grown-ups as well. Paliwal was distressed after that. A nature lover since quite a while ago intrigued with the outside, he chose to accept nature to respect her memory. After that, he started a mission in her memory of planting 111 saplings to praise the introduction of each infant young lady.
He began Kiran Nidhi Yojna, as indicated by which 111 trees are planted at whatever point a new girl is born. It is trailed by a proper store of Rs. 31000 in which Rs. 10,000 is contributed by the relatives of the newborn baby girl and the rest by the panchayat individuals and different locals. The sum is given over to the young girl or her family after it gets developed. The guardians of the young girl should sustain the saplings and furthermore sign an affirmation saying they would not offer their little girls before 18 or rehearsing female foeticide.
After his drive, the sex proportion of the village has expanded, and in excess of 3,50,000 trees have been planted, up until this point. They have additionally planted aloe vera and rose plants, which are utilized to make various results of everyday use, and later, sell them on the lookout. It has helped in producing work in the village.
The Piplantri village has, therefore, endure Rajasthan’s constant dry spell and water shortage because of the mission. The mission has additionally elaborate structure check dams on the fields on adjacent slopes to re-energize the groundwater level under Paliwal authority and transformed Rajsamand into a desert garden brimming with trees.
Paliwal has been granted India’s fourth-most noteworthy non-military personnel award, Padma Shri in the social work classification. He has additionally been granted the Nirmal Gram Award in 2007 by Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam.