Wednesday, August 05, 2009

is joshi another sandeep pandey?

aug 4th, 2009

new magsaysay winner. is joshi anti-india, anti-hindu? that's a major qualification for these awards.

2 comments:

Deshabhakta said...

can somebody please throw some light on ideological inclination of Deep Joshi?

Deva said...

http://www.pradan.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=30&Itemid=16

His NGO 'Pradan' has sites in Rajasthan, MP, Chattisgarh, Orissa, Jharkhand, Bihar, WB - a large swathe across the so-called tribal belt.

The website also gives a breakdown of SC, ST, OBC recipients of NGO largesse, which is not unusual for a purely service organization, but not for an NGO.

He has a high profile biography including involvement with the Ford Foundation:

QUOTE: Deep Joshi is an Indian social worker and NGO activist and the receipent of 2009 Magsaysay awards announced.He was recognised for his vision and leadership in bringing professionalism to the NGO movement in India.He co-founded an non-profit organisation, Professional Assistance for Development Action (PRADAN) of which he is the Executive Director.

Deep Joshi took his engineering degree from National Institute of Technology, Allahabad and also holds a masters engineering degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a another on management from Sloan School, MIT.

Returning to India, Deep Joshi worked as a Ford Foundation program officer. He has decades of social development work in India and in 1983, also co-founded an non-profit organisation, Professional Assistance for Development Action (PRADAN),that recurits college graduates to do community work.Pradan was also jointly awarded NGO of the Year 2006 at the first ever India NGO Award event.

He also advises the Government of India on poverty alleviation strategies and also was a member of Working Group on Rainfed Areas for the Eleventh Five Year Planning Commission, Govt of India.