T. G. K. Menon

T. G. K. Menon
Born	2 March 1940 Kodungallur, Thrissur, India
Died	12 June 2021 Indore (Madhya Pradesh)
Occupation(s)	Social worker Environmentalist
Awards	Padma Shri Jamnalal Bajaj Award

Thacheril Govindan Kutty Menon was an Indian social worker and environmentalist.^[1] His contributions are reported in the introduction of environmentally friendly irrigation and farming techniques under the aegis of Kasturbagram in Indore, Madhya Pradesh. He is known to have promoted bio-dynamic agriculture in India.^[2] He received the Jamnalal Bajaj Award in 1989.^[3] The Government of India awarded him the fourth highest civilian honour of the Padma Shri in 1991.^[4]

References

^ S. S. Tomar (1995). Energy Agriculture and Environment. Mittal Publications. p. 213. ISBN 9788170996132.
^ "What is Bio-Dynamic Agriculture?". Biodynamics. 2015. Retrieved 13 October 2015.
^ "Jamnalal Bajaj Award". Jamnalal Bajaj Foundation. 2015. Retrieved 13 October 2015.^{[permanent dead link]}
^ "Padma Awards" (PDF). Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India. 2015. Retrieved 21 July 2015.

Recipients of Padma Shri in Social Work

1950s

Mary Clubwala Jadhav (1955)
R. S. Subbalakshmi (1958)
Sailabala Das (1959)
Lakshman Singh Jangpangi (1959)

1960s

Nanabhai Bhatt (1960)
Bina Das (1960)
Sophia Wadia (1960)
Kamalabai Hospet (1961)
Mithuben Petit (1961)
N. Ramaswami Ayyar (1962)
Mother Teresa (1962)
Brij Krishna Chandiwala (1963)
Leela Sumant Moolgaokar (1963)
Leela Sumant Moolgaokar (1963)
Ambujammal (1964)
Mona Chandravati Gupta (1965)
Lakshmi Mazumdar (1965)
Gordhandas Bhagwandas Narottamdas (1965)
John Richardson (1965)
Manibhai Desai (1968)
Bhaurao Gaikwad (1968)
Shalini Moghe (1968)
Sis Ram Ola (1968)
Kalyan Singh Gupta (1969)
Mangru Ganu Uikey (1969)

1970s

1980s

Kunwar Singh Negi (1981)
Bhagat Puran Singh (1981)
Claire Vellut (1981)
Swami Kalyandev (1982)
Shiv Dutt Upadhyaya (1982)
M. P. Nachimuthu (1983)
Omem Moyong Deori (1984)
Zainulabedin Gulamhusain Rangoonwala (1984)
Ela Bhatt (1985)
Ratnappa Kumbhar (1985)
Anutai Wagh (1985)
Chandi Prasad Bhatt (1986)
Mahasweta Devi (1986)
Krishan Dev Dewan (1986)
Tushar Kanjilal (1986)
Avdhash Kaushal (1986)
Narayan Singh Manaklao (1986)
Bunker Roy (1986)
Begum Zaffar Ali (1987)
Jaya Arunachalam (1987)
Darshan Singh Vohra (1988)
Mithu Alur (1989)
Vedaratnam Appakutti (1989)
Rajmohini Devi (1989)
Krishnammal Jagannathan (1989)
Mag Raj Jain (1989)
Edward Kutchat (1989)

1990s

Anna Hazare (1990)
Renana Jhabvala (1990)
Silverine Swer (1990)
Silverine Swer (1991)
Vimla Dang (1991)
T. G. K. Menon (1991)
Jagdish Kashibhai Patel (1991)
D. Y. Patil (1991)
Sundaram Ramakrishnan (1991)
Kantilal Hastimal Sancheti (1991)
Shanthi Ranganathan (1992)
Vidyaben Shah (1992)
Leonarda Angela Casiraghi (1998)
Antony Padiyara (1998)
Shantha Sinha (1998)
Kanta Tyagi (1998)
Acharya Ramamurti (1999)
T. Sailo (1999)
Natwar Thakkar (1999)

2000s

2010s

2020s

Jagdish Lal Ahuja (2020)
Popatrao Baguji Pawar (2020)
Usha Chaumar (2020)
Lia Diskin (2020)
Sangkhumi Bualchhuak (2020
Tulsi Gowda (2020)
Harekala Hajabba (2020)
Tetsu Nakamura (2020)
S. Ramakrishnan (2020)
Sayed Mehboob Shah Qadri (2020)
Mohammed Sharif (2020)
Ramjee Singh (2020)
Agus Indra Udayana (2020)
Sundaram Verma (2020)
Sindhutai Sapkal (2021)
Girish Prabhune (2021)
Prabhaben Shah (2022)
Savaji Bhai Dholakia (2022)
Gamit Ramilaben Raysingbhai (2022)
Om Prakash Gandhi (2022)
K V Rabiya (2022)
Srimad Baba Balia (2022)
Prem Singh (2022)
Baba Iqbal Singh Ji (2022)
S Damodaran (2022)
Basanti Devi (2022)
Bhiku Ramji Idate (2023)
Bikram Bahadur Jamatia (2023)
Ramkuiwangbe Jeme Newme (2023)
Hirabai Lobi (2023)
Moolchand Lodha (2023)
Gajanan Jagannath Mane (2023)
Uma Shankar Pandey (2023)
V. P. Appukutta Poduval (2023)
Vadivel Gopal and Masi Sadaiyan (2023)
Sankurathri Chandra Sekhar (2023)
Laxman Singh (2023)
Palam Kalyana Sundaram (2023)
Karma Wangchu (Posthumous) (2023)
Sangthankima (2024)

v t e Jamnalal Bajaj Award winners
Constructive work	Jugatram Dave (1978) Sarla Devi and Baba Amte (1979) Gandhi Niketan Ashram (1980) Amalprava Das (1981) Gokulbhai Daulatram Bhatt (1982) Tagaduru Ramachandra Rao (1983) Popatlal Ramchandra Shah (1984) T. S. Avinashilingam Chettiar (1985) Sunderlal Bahuguna (1986) Natwar Thakkar (1987) Krishnammal Jagannathan (1988) K. Janardanan Pillai (1989) Tirath Ram (1990) Dwarko Sundarani (1991) Thakurdas Bang (1992) Vichitra Narain Sharma (1993) L. N. Gopalaswami (1994) Kashinath Trivedi (1995) Manubhai Pancholi (1996) R. K. Patil (1997) Acharya Ramamurti (1998) Narayan Desai (1999) Somdutt Vedalankar (2000) Sisir Sanyal (2001) Siddharaj Dhadda (2002) Rabindra Nath Upadhyay (2003) Radhakrishna Bajaj (2004) P. Gopinathan Nair (2005) Salem Nanjundaiah Subba Rao (2006) Yashpal M. Mittal (2007) Biswanath Pattnaik (2008) Lavanam (2009) Chunilal Vaidya (2010) Ramesh Bhaiya and Vimla Bahan (2011) Jayant Mathkar (2012) G. V. Subba Rao (2013) Surendra Koulagi (2014) Man Singh Rawat (2015) Mohan Hirabai Hiralal (2016)
Science and Technology	Satish Chandra Das Gupta (1978) Jayant Shamrao Patil (1979) Anil Sadgopal (1980) A. M. M. Murugappa Chettiar (1981) Prembhai (1982) Manibhai Desai (1983) Mohan Narhari Parikh (1984) Sanjit Roy (1985) Vilas B. Salunke (1986) Sunit Dhanaji Bonde (1987) Ishwarbhai Patel (1988) T. G. K. Menon (1989) Shripad Dabholkar (1990) S. Krishnamurthy Mirmira (1991) K. Vishwanathan (1992) Dinkarrao G. Pawar (1993) V. S. Aggarwal (1994) G. Muniratnam (1995) V. S. Aggarwal (1996) S. S. Katagihallimath (1997) Devendra Kumar (1998) Ajoy Kumar Basu (1999) Bhaskar Save (2000) Anil K. Rajvanshi (2001) Arunkumar Dave (2002) Vinayak Patil (2003) Prabhakar Shankar Thakur (2004) Rajendra Singh (2005) Anil Prakash Joshi (2006) Anand Dinkar Karve (2007) Tushar Kanjilal (2008) Ayyappa Masagi (2009) Chewang Norphel (2010) Anupam Mishra (2011) Kalyan Paul (2012) Snehlata Nath (2013) Ram Kumar Singh (2014) Perumal Vivekanandan (2015) B. V. Nimbkar (2016)
Women and child welfare	Kamalabai Hospet (1980) Ramadevi Choudhury (1981) Taraben Mashruwala (1982) Pushpaben Mehta (1983) Gaura Devi (1984) Anutai Wagh (1985) Vasanti S. Roy (1986) Annapragada C. Krishna Rao (1987) Malati Choudhury (1988) Indirabai Halbe (1989) Ratan Shastri (1990) Radha Bhatt (1991) Shalini Moghe (1992) Kantaben and Harivilasben Shah (1993) Shanti Devi (1994) Vimla Bahuguna (1995) Indumati Parikh (1996) Vinoba Niketan (1997) Rajammal P. Devadas (1998) Saraswathi Gora (1999) Vidya Devi (2000) Rehmat Sultan Fazelbhoy (2001) Chitra Naik (2002) Alice Garg (2003) Sarojini Varadappan (2004) Arunaben Shankarprasad Desai (2005) Rani Bang (2006) Ashoka Gupta (2007) Phoolbasan Bai Yadav (2008) Jaya Arunachalam (2009) Shakuntaladevi Choudhary (2010) Shobhana Ranade (2011) Glenn D. Paige (2012) Vidhya Das (2013) Chennupati Vidaya (2014) Anne Ferrer (2015) Dr. N. Manga Devi (2016)
International	Pierre Parodi (1988) Danilo Dolci (1989) A. T. Ariyaratne (1990) Charles Walker (1991) Homer A. Jack (1992) Johan Galtung (1993) Gedong Bagus Oka (1994) Kamala (1995) Adolfo De Obieta (1996) Young Seek Choue (1997) Jharna Dhara Chowdhury (1998) Joseph Rotblat (1999) Desmond Tutu (2000) Satish Kumar (2001) George Willoughby (2002) Mary E. King (2003) Marie Thoeger (2004) Daisaku Ikeda (2005) Ismail Serageldin (2006) Michael Nagler (2007) Louis Campana (2008) Charles Peter Dougherty (2009) Lia Diskin (2010) Agus Indra Udayana (2011) Nighat Shafi (2012) Jean-Marie Muller (2013) Sulak Sivaraksa (2014) Minoru Kasai (2015) Rached Ghannouchi (2016)
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