Pawar Popatrao Bhaguji
(Environmental Protection)
About Pawar Popatrao Bhaguji
- In 2020, Pawar Popatrao Bhaguji was awarded Padma Bhushan for his contribution in the field of social work.
Social Work
- He is a farmer, sarpanch of Hiware Bazar panchayat in Ahmednagar district of Maharashtra.
- Pawar also serves as the Executive Director of Maharashtra state government’s Model Village programme.
- He is credited with having transformed it from an impoverished village into a model of development that the government of Maharashtra wishes to implement across the state.
- He led Hiware Bazar’s transformation from a drought- prone village to a green and prosperous model village.
- In relation to the control of malaria he is quoted to have said “Show me one mosquito (in Hiware bazar) and take away Rs 100.”
- The Hiware bazare gram panchayat, with Pawar as its sarpanch, won the first National Award for community led water conservation in 2007.
