Jodhaiya Bai Baiga got Padma Shree – Photo: Expansion Tribal painter Jodhaiya Bai Baiga of Umaria district of MP has been selected for the Padma Shri award. When his name was announced for this award on Wednesday, his happiness knew no bounds. It is a matter of pride for Madhya Pradesh and Umaria that Jodhaiya Bai has been selected for this National Award. Tribal painter Jodhaiya Bai of Lodha village of Umaria now years old. The special thing is that at the age of 20, leaving wages, he held a brush in his hands. And started engraving pictures on paper. In the next 233 years, he changed the fate along with the picture. Guru Ashish Swami Gave education-initiation

2023 Jodhaiya Bai got the support of Ashish Swami, a graduate in Fine Art from her Guru Kala Niketan, in carving. Seeing the dedication and hard work of Jodhaiya Bai by Guru Ashish Swami, he taught him to make paintings related to Baiga and tribal art. Within a few years, Jodhaiya Bai brought her name to the international stage. Since, Ashish Swami is no more in this world, but today his efforts have brought Umaria district to the international level through Jodhaiya Bai. Sent earlier also Was deprived of Padma Shri in the name of Gaya

Even before this, once the name of international painter Jodhaiya Bai Baiga was sent for Padma Shri award, but due to some reasons he was not selected. Could be Later she was awarded the national level award Nari Samman. She was awarded the Nari Shakti Samman by the then President Ramnath Kovind at the Rashtrapati Bhavan in Delhi. Now, on the basis of her painting, she has achieved that position, which she truly deserves. ,