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Deep Joshi is
Ramon Magsaysay Award winner
WSN Network
 Prominent
Indian social activist Deep Joshi, who has done pioneering work for
"development of rural communities", was on Monday named along with
five others for the prestigious Ramon Magsaysay Award for 2009,
considered as Asia's equivalent of the Nobel Prize.
Joshi is being
recognised for "his vision and leadership in bringing
professionalism to the NGO movement in India, by effectively
combining `head' and `heart' in the transformative development of
rural communities," the Board of Trustees of the Ramon Magsaysay
Award Foundation said in a press statement from its headquarters in
Manila.
"I am delighted
to get this honour. But the award is not for an individual, it is
for an idea, for the development of rural population. We need the
educated people to go to rural areas and work for their welfare," 62
year-old Joshi said.
A masters in
engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Joshi
worked with the Systems Research Institute, the Ford Foundation and
has nearly 30 years of experience in the field of rural development
and livelihood promotion.
He also advises
the government on poverty alleviation strategies.
Deep Joshi has
been closely involved in people's movements, particularly working in
the area of promoting livelihoods organisation in Jharkhand, Orissa,
West Bengal, Jharkhand, Chattisgarh, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh.
His efforts focussed on forming women self help groups and in areas
related to agriculture or farming systems, which include livestock
or related to forest etc. or even small enterprises like poultry,
mushroom cultivation, spinning and wheeling of tusser.
He has deep
concerns about Corporate Social Responsibility and believes that
resources of society are not such that everybody in the society
cannot have, what an American has or a rich Indian has.
27
May 2009
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