There are some descriptions of the tribal people who has became the prominent persons of the country.
Haldhar Nag
Dr. Haldhar Nag is a Sambalpuri poet and writer from Bargarh, Odisha, India. Popularly known as "Lok kabi Ratna". He was awarded Padma Shri, the fourth highest civilian award of India by Government of India in 2016. He was born on 31 March 1950. He is best known for his work Kavyanjali, an anthology of the English translation of Nag's selected poetry which was launched on 2 October 2016. In 2019 Haldhar Nag was awarded Doctorate Degree by Sambalpur University.
He was born in a poor family of Ghens in the Bargarh district of Odisha. At very small age he lost his only financially capable father due to which he had to do work for his family. He had to drop his school when he was reading in class 3. He had to work as a local dishwasher in a sweetmeat shop to feed his family, realizing his condition village head took him to high-school and there he worked as a cook for more than 10 years. He also opened a small stationery shop nearby the school, that too by taking a loan of ₨ 1000. Though he is an awardee, he still likes to live a simple life by selling chhana and ghuguni in the street.
His works:
Lokgeet
Samparda
Krushnaguru
Mahasati Urmila
Tara Mandodari
Achhia
Bacchhar
Siri Somalai
Veer Surendra Sai
Karamsani
Rasia Kavi (biography of Tulasidas)
Prem Paechan
3rd volume of Kavyanjali (released on 22 November 2019)
Tulasi Munda is a 72-year-old lady of Keonjhar district of Odisha state. She is a social activist, was awarded the Padma Shri in 2001 by the Government of India for her contribution to spreading literacy among the impoverished Adivasi peoples of Odisha. Munda started an informal school in 1964 in Odisha's iron ore mining area to educate children from local Adivasi populations, who would otherwise have ended up as child labor in the mines. She had been a child laborer in the mines of Keonjhar herself.
Munda is illiterate and has no formal education. She belongs to the Munda ethnic group of Adivasis, the collective term in mainland South Asia for indigenous peoples. She is popularly known as "Tulasi Apa", literally meaning "Sister Tulasi" in Odia.
As a child, she wished to study but the idea of educating girls and women was largely socially unacceptable at that time. Child labor, poverty, and slavery prevented indigenous children from getting an education. When she was 12, she went to Serenda village to live with her sister. There she worked in the mines.
Awards:
Padma Shri, the fourth highest civilian award given by the Government of India, in 2001, for her contribution to the field of "social work".
Kadambini Samman, 2008.
Odisha Living Legend Award for Excellence in Social Service, 2011.
Lakshmipat Singhania - IIM Lucknow National Leadership Award, in the category of Community Service and Social Upliftment (Leader), 2009.
Dilip Tirkey
Dilip Tirkey is a well-known player of India. He was an ex-captain of the Indian hockey team. He was best known for his penalty corner hit. Dilip was one of the most difficult defenders to beat in the world. On 22 March 2012, he was elected unopposed to the Rajya Sabha as one of the three Biju Janata Dal (BJD) candidates to the Upper House of Indian Parliament. Presently, Dilip Tirkey is working as chairman of Odisha Tourism Development Corporation (OTDC).
Achievements:
First-ever tribal to get Padma Shree Award
India's highest capped (412 matches) hockey international and second highest in the world
Only Adivasi to represent India in 3 Olympic Games.
1995: 7th SAF Games at Chennai (Champions)
1996: Olympic Games at Atlanta, USA (8th place)
1997: Under-21 Test Series against Germany (Winners)
1997: Under-21 Challengers Cup Tournament at Poznan, Poland (Winners)
1997: Junior World Cup at Milton Keynes, England (Runners-up)
1998: Asian Games at Bangkok (Gold medal)
1999: Asia Cup at Kuala Lumpur (Bronze medal)
2000: Olympic Games at Sydney (7th place)
2000: 10th Sultan Azlan Shah Cup Tournament at Kuala Lumpur (Bronze medal)
2002: Champions Trophy at Cologne, Germany (4th place), as Captain
2002: Asian Games at Busan, South Korea ( Silver medal ), as Captain
2003: Asia Cup at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (Champions)
2003: Afro-Asian Games at Hyderabad (Gold medal), as Captain
2004: Olympic Games at Athens, Greece (7th place), as Captain[7]
2011: Odisha Living Legend Award
Awards:
Padma Shree, 2004
Arjun Award, 2002
Ekalavya Award, 1996
ONGC-Hockey Year Book Award, 1998
Biju Patnaik Sportsperson of the Year Award, 2004
Ricoh Hockey Star of the Year, 2009
Showcase Odisha Awards, 2012
Draupadi Murmu
Draupadi Murmu is an Indian politician who is the eighth and current Governor of Jharkhand since May 2015. She is the first governor of Jharkhand to complete the five-year term, since its formation in 2000.
During the Bharatiya Janata Party and Biju Janata Dal coalition government in Odisha, She was the Minister of State with independent charge for Commerce and Transport from March 6, 2000, to August 6, 2002 and Fisheries and Animal Resources Development from August 6, 2002, to May 16, 2004. She was the former Odisha Minister and an MLA from Rairangpur assembly constituency in the years 2000 and 2004. Mrs. Draupadi is the first woman Governor of Jharkhand. She is the first woman and tribal leader from Odisha to be appointed as a governor in an Indian state.
Lipika Singh Darai
Lipika Singh Darai is an Indian filmmaker and film director. She is a woman from the tribal community 'Ho' from Odisha’s Mayurbhanj district. She has won four National Film Awards in her seven years of career in filmmaking and direction, an enviable feat for her contemporary filmmakers and directors.
Lipika began her educational journey from an Odia language primary school in her village to the country’s prestigious Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) in Pune, bagged the Best Director Award in the recently held 64th National Film Award in the Best Educational Film category, for her documentary 'The Waterfall. The Waterfall, made for school cinema in English and Hindi, has been selected to be screened in seven hundred schools across India and other countries.
Her previous film - Kankee O Saapo (dragonfly and snake), A Tree A Man A Sea and Gaarud - had also created waves for wonderfully capturing the essence of rustic life, the treasures of nature, environment protection efforts by local tribals and ethics and values of a society in rural areas.
Swarnalata Dalai
Swarnalata Dalai is a resident of Jagadiha village in Odisha's Jajpur district. The 22-year-old Swarnalata is a daughter of a landless Dalit farmer from Odisha.
She underwent a severe training schedule that involved everything from carrying heavy loads to getting accustomed to sleeping on the snow in tents. The young girl began to develop the Everest dream with her mentor Bachendri Pal, the first Indian woman to scale the world’s highest peak.
Swarnalata’s sacrifice of skipping her exams and preparing for the Everest climb has paid off. With this, the family couldn’t be happier. Later her parents and four siblings’ happiness knew no bounds when they saw the news on television, covering Swarnalata’s Everest feat, sitting inside their small mud house. She would run through the green village fields and speak about scaling the hills surrounding our village. She has won many prizes as an athlete in school, but mountaineering was fairly new to her.
These hardworking figures taught us how to face the problem. They are the inspirations for the society.
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