Sandeep Pandey
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| Sandeep Pandey | |
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| Born | July 22, 1965 |
| Occupation | Activist |
| Known for | Asha for Education |
Sandeep Pandey (born July 22, 1965) 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.[2]
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[edit] Early life
Sandeep Pandey is born in Brahmin family, He is an alumnus of the Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University, India. Thereafter he did his Master’s in manufacturing and computer science from Syracuse University, followed by doctorate in control theory at the University of California, Berkeley, which he completed in 1992.[2]
[edit] Career
After completing his education, he moved back to India, to started teaching at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur in 1992, later he 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.[2]
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.[3] He leads National Alliance of People's Movements (NAPM), the largest network of grassroots people's movements in India.[4]
He was awarded the Ramon Magsaysay Award (often termed as 'Asian Nobel prize') in 2002 for the emergent leadership category.[5] 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 Gandhinagar.[6]
[edit] Controversies
In 2002, he attended a conference organized by the Communist Party of India, Marxist Leninist Liberation, (CPI-MLL) to honor the kin of about 1000 Naxalites who were killed in police action in Bihar.[7] 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."[8]
[edit] 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.
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ http://www.hindustantimes.com/News-Feed/india/Through-green-tinted-glasses/Article1-546326.aspx
- ^ a b c "Sandeep Pandey Biography". Magsaysay Award website. 2002. http://www.rmaf.org.ph/Awardees/Biography/pdfbio/PandeySan.pdf.
- ^ '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
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- ^ "CPI-ML faction to honour kin of 1000 Naxalites". rediff.com. 2002-11-15. http://www.rediff.com/news/2002/nov/15naxal.htm. Retrieved 2011-02-05.
- ^ "Asia's Nobels unfazed by controversy". atimes.com. 2002-09-13. http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Southeast_Asia/DI13Ae02.html. Retrieved 2011-02-05.
