The son of a farmer has hogged limelight by bringing glory for the district as well as for the State after his name was registered in the prestigious India Book of Records for his individual efforts to keep the environment clean.
Dr Sagar Pradhan (31), son of Tapan and Bidyulata Pradhan of Mallikeswarpur under Derabish block of Kendrapada, is an award-winning writer. He donated the money he earned as royalty for his books for plantation of saplings, cleaning of beaches, restoration of small lakes and ponds.
He has written many books and articles based on electronic waste management, single use plastics, medical waste management, reducing carbon footprint etc. Due to his unique individual effort to curb environment degradation and provide a beautiful eco-friendly environment, his name was registered in India Book of Record -2022.
Dr Pradhan is also the recipient of the “World Environment Day Hero-2020” by United Nations as confirmed on May 20, 2021.
Dr Pradhan completed his schooling from Mallikeswarpur Government Nodal High School and completed his BTech in IT from BPUT. He too completed MBA in Marketing and also was awarded Doctorate in Computer Science by the United Nation. He is working as the Technical Lead, Billing solutions and Control, Finance India.
He is the author of “E-commerce and ERP”, “Basic Java”. His book “Internet of Things” has also been appreciated by a number of international research organisations like IoT Council (Europe), IOT-SPHERE (USA) and IAENG (Hongkong). He has also penned fiction “A Cup of Tea with Life” which is a success too. He also received the most admired writer (English) from ITI MIRROR in January 2020