Sandeep Pandey
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Sandeep Pandey is a senior social activist from India. He co-founded Asha for Education with Deepak Gupta and V.J.P Srivatsoy while working on his Ph.D in Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley in 1991. He came back to India to teach at premier Engineering institute, IIT (Indian Institute of Technology) Kanpur and later resigned to plunge fulltime in social activism.
His years of dedication brought him the Ramon Magsaysay Award - the Asian equivalent of the Nobel Prize in 2002. He was selected in the 'Emergent Leadership Category,' and is among five others to have won the coveted award till 2002. At 37, he is also the youngest Indian to have been conferred with the award.
He is an alumnus of the Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University.[1]
He leads National Alliance of People's Movements (NAPM), which happens to be the largest network of grassroot people's movements in India.
[edit] See also
- Asha_for_Education
- Ramon Magsaysay Award
- Citizen News Service - collection of published writings of Sandeep Pandey
