She cried for the green and became India’s first green
ambassador at the age of nine when she would have been living the lives of any
normal class V standard student but it was her passion for green that caught in
the eye of Manipur’s Chief Minister N Biren Singh.
This passionate green lover Elangbam Valentina Devi who
tends all the plants at her back yard before leaving for school reacted
inconsolably when she found two of her planted Royal Poinciana trees were
uprooted for government road widening project.
Elangbam who must have been five years way back when she was
in class I at which time she had planted the Royal Poinciana tree by the river,
the emotional bond with the trees for this tender mind was extreme and
inconsolably cried after seeing its devastation for road development which
scene went viral in the internet.
This viral video badly trapped CM Biren Singh for breaking
the heart of someone so tender for which he compensated by ordering the forest
department to deliver 20 saplings as a gift in return for the loss made to her and
felt her to be the right choice for the present
genre to awaken on environment conservation by appointing her as
Manipur’s green ambassador. Now such responsible title to such a tender age
person is being appointed for the first time in India, it is a great pride for
Elangbam whose attempt was entirely accidental.
It is all her passion which took the credit as the nine year
old from Kakching district expressed her deepest gratitude towards the Manipur CM
Biren Singh for recognizing her credibility for the prestigious role in supporting
government sponsored plantation programmes and her concern why people
fail to care for nature due to which Elangbam decides to become a forest officer in the future,”
NEIC: SUMI BORA
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