Jadav "Molai" Payeng (b 1963) is an environmental activist and forestry worker from Jorhat, Assam, popularly known as the Forest Man of India. Over the course of several decades, he has planted and tended trees on a sandbar of the river Brahmaputra turning it into a forest reserve. The forest, called Molai Forest after him, is located near Kokilamukh of Jorhat, Assam, India and encompasses an area of about 1,360 acres / 550 hectares. In 2015, Mr Jadav was honoured with Padma Shri, the fourth highest civilian award in India. He was born in the indigenous Mising tribe of Assam.

The Assam Book of Records (ABR) is proud to honour Padma Shri Jadav Payeng with this World Record certificate.

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