Tulasi Munda
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Tulasi Munda (born 15 July 1947) is a social activist from the Indian state of Odisha. She was awarded the Padma Shri in 2001 by 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 labour in the mines. She had been a child labourer in the mines of Keonjhar herself. She is popularly known as "Tulasi Apa", literally meaning "Sister Tulasi" in Odia.
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Tulasi Munda
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Tulasi Munda
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Tulasi Munda
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Kainshi, Keonjhar, present-day Odisha
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1947-07-15
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1947-07-15
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Munda in 2011
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Contribution to education among adivasis
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Indian
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Educator, social activist
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Tulasi Apa
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Tulasi Munda (born 15 July 1947) is a social activist from the Indian state of Odisha. She was awarded the Padma Shri in 2001 by 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 labour in the mines. She had been a child labourer 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.
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1947
