India as perhaps the one most responsible for converting

India as perhaps the one most responsible for converting the concern about environment from a concern of the Laffluent 20 and elite to the concern of the poor and for the poor. Path-breaking address at the U.N. 40 Environment Conference in Stockholm in 1972 swung away attention from the peripheral issues of the environment to the real issues of the environment that of the relationship between the environment and development. It is therefore appropriate that this award has been named after her. It is a testimony to her contribution to protecting the environment and to raising an awareness about the environment.