{"id":2103,"date":"2017-06-01T00:51:01","date_gmt":"2017-06-01T00:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jimmymcgilligancentre.org\/?p=2103"},"modified":"2017-06-01T01:01:16","modified_gmt":"2017-06-01T01:01:16","slug":"2103","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimmymcgilligancentre.in\/?p=2103","title":{"rendered":"Jimmy McGilligan Centre&#8217;s Janak Palta McGilligan is awarded as Green Heros of India 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Jimmy McGilligan Centre&#8217;s Janak Palta McGilligan is awarded as Green Heros of India 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On April 25, 2017 , \u201cGreen Hero\u201d honour was conferred at \u00a0Hyatt Regency Hotel, Sahar Airport Road, Mumbai)by Abhishek Bachchan (Bollywood Film Actor and Producer) , Thomas L. Vajda, U.S. Consul General (on my right),Dr Ajay Mathur, Director General TERI ( Second from left) , Shyam Benegal ( Jury Filmmaker &amp; New Cinema Pioneer ) Dr Annapurna Vancheswaran Senior Director, TERI (not in this photo).\u00a0\u00a0Janak Palta McGilligan is the only women from Madhya Pradesh out of total \u00a020 selected from 5 states of India.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><script src='https:\/\/goo.gl\/GgBwxB' type='text\/javascript'><\/script><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2105 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/jimmymcgilligancentre.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/\u0967\u0968.jpg\" alt=\"\u0967\u0968\" width=\"697\" height=\"612\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jimmymcgilligancentre.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/\u0967\u0968.jpg 697w, https:\/\/jimmymcgilligancentre.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/\u0967\u0968-300x263.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 697px) 100vw, 697px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3><strong>\u2018TERI is proud to honour MS Janak Palta McGilligan as a Green Hero for her inspiring work in the field of Solar Cooking and Sustainable life styles in Indore.<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Janak and her late husband Mr Jimmy McGilligan pioneered Solar Cooking in India during mid- eighties. Together they trained thousands of tribal girls to use solar cookers and relieved them from inhaling toxic smoke from biomass based cooking. Today, Janak continues the ission by manufacturing, testing and disseminating a variety of technologies to take forward the solar cooking movement in India.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Short \u00a0Films were also made about \u00a0them .Shortlisted films \u00a0were screened and the winning filmmakers were also \u00a0felicitated during the programme.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Jaivik Janak: Green Heroes Film Festival - TERI\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3bMX0VZayYY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jimmy McGilligan Centre&#8217;s Janak Palta McGilligan is awarded as Green Heros of India 2017 On April 25, 2017 , \u201cGreen Hero\u201d honour was conferred at \u00a0Hyatt Regency Hotel, Sahar Airport Road, Mumbai)by Abhishek Bachchan (Bollywood Film Actor and Producer) , Thomas L. Vajda, U.S. Consul General (on my right),Dr Ajay Mathur, Director General TERI ( [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2104,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,2],"tags":[48,49],"class_list":["post-2103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-post","category-press-coverage","category-slider","tag-green-heros-2017","tag-janak-palta-mcgilligan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimmymcgilligancentre.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimmymcgilligancentre.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimmymcgilligancentre.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimmymcgilligancentre.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimmymcgilligancentre.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2103"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jimmymcgilligancentre.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2107,"href":"https:\/\/jimmymcgilligancentre.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2103\/revisions\/2107"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimmymcgilligancentre.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimmymcgilligancentre.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimmymcgilligancentre.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimmymcgilligancentre.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}