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40-yr efforts to reduce human-elephant conflict recognised, Assam’s ‘Elephant Girl’ gets Padma Shri
Guwahati: Popularly known as ‘Elephant Girl’ (Hasti Kanya) in Assam, 67-year-old Parbati Baruah, whose name was announced for Padma Shri, is India’s first woman mahout (elephant keeper). Baruah got the award in recognition of her work in animal conservation and dispelling preconceptions to make a name for women in a field that has historically been dominated by men. Born into the Gauripur royal family in the Goalpara district of Assam, Barua and her father Prakritish Barua caught their first elephant together when Barua was 14 years old in the Kachugaon woods of Kokrajhar district. She spent 40 years addressing and reducing human-elephant conflicts and fought against gender stereotypes in t

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