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Sandeep Pandey has bagged this year's Ramon Magsaysay award in the 'Emergent Leadership Category' for his work 'towards the upliftment of the poor and the underprivileged in India'.
He is among five others to have won the coveted award this year.
Pandey is the founder of the Non-Governmental Organisation Asha (Hope), which supports education and livelihood projects for poor children in India, particularly dalits.
Other winners include a Philippine Supreme Court chief justice, a nun from Pakistan, a doctor from Myanmar, a Nepalese journalist and a South Korean Buddhist monk.
Philippine Justice Hilario Davide won the award in the 'Government Service Category' for promoting democracy in his country. Ruth Pfau, a Catholic nun born in Germany but living in Pakistan, bagged the award in the 'Public Service Category' for improving the treatment of leprosy patients at the Marie Adelaide Leprosy Centre in Pakistan.
Cynthia Maung, born to an ethnic Karen family in Myanmar, won it in the 'Community Leadership Category' for treating thousands of refugees on the Myanmar-Thai border. Bharat Koirala, founder of the Nepal Press Institute, won the award for journalism, literature and communications for 'developing professional journalism' in his country, while promoting the use of mass media for development. Buddhist monk Sukho Choi won the 'award for peace and international understanding' for his efforts to rally assistance for the people of North Korea.
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