Rajendra singh, Roman Magsaysay Award winner from Rajasthan

Rajendra Singh is a well known water conservationist from Alwar, Rajasthan in India. He won the Ramon Magsaysay Award for community leadership in 2001 for his pioneering work in water management. He is the founder of an NGO called Tarun Bharat Sangh. The NGO has been instrumental in fighting the slow bureaucracy and has helped villagers take charge of water management in their area, through the use of check dams and other time-tested as well as path-breaking techniques. This NGO played a vital role in reviving Arvari River.
After Aruna Roy, he becomes second person to win Roman magsaysay Award from Rajasthan

Related Posts:

0 comments:

Post a Comment