Wednesday, February 02, 2011

Indian social worker returns top award as protest against corruption...


A leading Indian social worker has returned a prestigious government award in protest against corruption.

Ramon Magsaysay award winner Sandeep Pandey was honoured for his raising awareness about the government's jobs-for-work scheme.

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He said the husband of a village council head had stolen 620,000 rupees ($13,586) of government funds and beaten up villagers "in full view of the police" when they protested two years ago.

"Yet no action has been taken in this case to date. The criminalisation of politics and the influx of corruption in day to day working of government schemes is indeed very sad," Mr Pandey said. Full story...

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