Chami Murmu

Chami Murmu (born c. 1973) is an Indian environmental activist and is known for planting trees in India.

She had planted 2,500,000 trees in India till she was awarded the Nari Shakti Puraskar in 2019.

Murmu was born about 1973,[1] she is from Bagraisai village in Rajnagar block of the Seraikela Kharsawan district.

In 2020 she was the secretary from an organisation, Sahayogi Mahila Bagraisai, that champions her work and it has 3,000 members[2] In March 2020 Murmu was in New Delhi on International Women's Day where the President Kovind presented twelve Nari Shakti Puraskar awards and Murmu was one of those chosen.

[3] Later that month Murmu announced that she and Jamuna Tudu were to join forces to protect Jharkhand's forests.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi with the Nari Shakti Awardees on International Women's Day in 2020.