Not only did Kalawati Devi Rawat bring electricity to her community - literally by carrying abandoned poles and wires to her village - but she and the women of the Mahila Mangal Dal (Women Welfare Group) battled alcoholism in her village by shutting down illegal breweries and prevented logging companies from decimating nearby forest by organising her fellow villages to hug the trees when the men with chainsaws approached.
Read about Kalawati Devi Rawat in the BBC News
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