Sandeep Pandey
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Sandeep Pandey | |
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| Known for | Asha for Education |
Sandeep Pandey is an Indian social activist.[1] He co-founded Asha for Education with Dr. Deepak Gupta (presently Professor at IIT Kanpur) and V.J.P Srivatsoy while working on his Ph. D in Mechanical Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley.
Early life
Sandeep Pandey is an alumnus of the Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University, India. After graduating in 1991 from UC Berkeley, he returned to India to teach at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur and founded a registered organization named Asha Trust which has several centers/chapters across India. His team has launched a people's group named Asha Parivar in 2008 that focuses on strengthening democracy at the grassroots.
Career
Sandeep Pandey's work at Asha Parivar is focused on Right to Information and other forms of citizen participation in removing corruption and improving the efficiency of governance.[2] He leads National Alliance of People's Movements (NAPM), the largest network of grassroots people's movements in India.[3]
He was awarded the Ramon Magsaysay Award (often termed as 'Asian Nobel prize') in 2002 for the emergent leadership category.[4] Pandey led an Indo-Pakistan peace march from New Delhi to Multan in 2005.
He has served as an adviser to the Indian government's Central Advisory Board for Education (CABE). His idea of education is based on empowerment by imbibing the spirit of cooperation instead of competition. Currently he is working as a visiting professor in the Mechanical Engineering department at Indian Institute of Technology GandhinagarCite error: A <ref> tag is missing the closing </ref> (see the help page). Upon receiving the Ramon Magsaysay Award, which from the very beginning has been funded by the US government, he referred to America as "the biggest terrorist state in the world."[5]
Personal life
Sandeep Pandey lives in Indira Nagar, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh. He is married to Arundhati Dhuru and they have a son, Chaitanya Pandey and a daughter, Anandi Pandey.
See also
- Detailed Bio of Sandeep Pandey
- Sandeep Pandey's interviews on functioning of Asha
- Right to Information Act
References
- ^ http://www.hindustantimes.com/News-Feed/india/Through-green-tinted-glasses/Article1-546326.aspx
- ^ 'The Wages of Protest' by Arundhati Dhuru and Sandeep Pandey
- ^ 'Environment Justice' by John Byrne, Leigh Glover, Cecilia Martinez
- ^ The 2002 Ramon Magsaysay Award for Emergent Leadership CITATION for Sandeep Pandey
- ^ "Asia's Nobels unfazed by controversy". atimes.com. 2002-09-13. Retrieved 2011-02-05.
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- Living people
- Indian educationists
- Banaras Hindu University alumni
- Ramon Magsaysay Award winners
- University of California, Berkeley alumni
- Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur faculty
- People from Ballia