Overview

• Jamuna Tudu received an official invitation from President Droupadi Murmu to attend a special Independence Day dinner at Rashtrapati Bhavan on August 15 at 6 PM.
• The invitation underscores her decades-long campaign against illegal logging and efforts to mobilize villagers to protect Jharkhand’s forests.
• In founding the grassroots group Van Suraksha Samiti, Tudu has led community patrols and awareness drives that confronted timber mafias and thwarted deforestation.
• Known as ‘Lady Tarzan’, she rose from working as a daily wage laborer to a nationally recognized environmental leader who survived multiple attacks.
• Tudu says the invitation will highlight the importance of women’s leadership in conservation and encourage new participation in environmental activism.