Sandeep Pandey

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Sandeep Pandey
Sandeep Pandey

Sandeep Pandey is a social activist from India. He co-founded Asha for Education with Deepak Gupta and V.J.P Srivatsoy while working on his Ph. D in Mechanical Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. After graduating in 1991, he returned to India to teach at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. He founded a people's group named Asha Parivar that focuses on strengthening democracy at the grassroots.

His 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. He leads National Alliance of People's Movements (NAPM), the largest network of grassroot people's movements in India.[citation needed]

Pandey is an alumnus of the Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University.

In 2002, he was awarded the Ramon Magsaysay Award for emergent leadership. At 37, he is also the youngest Indian to have received the award.

Pandey lead an Indo-Pakistan peace march from New Delhi to Multan in 2005.

Writing in the Japan Times, Pandey advocates against the Indo-US nuclear agreement. Pandey asserts that the agreement would effectively give India the privileges of a nuclear weapons state under the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT), to which it is not a signatory. Pandey terms India's 1999 nuclear tests a violation of a global non-proliferation regime, which instigated Pakistan's nuclear tests and led to North Korea withdrawing from the NPT. Instead of the Indo-US nuclear deal, Pandey favours an Indo-Pakistan deal suspending the "nuclear arms race" between the two.[1]

He has served as an adviser to the Indian government's Central Advisory Board for Education (CABE).

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  1. ^ Sandeep Pandey. "U.S.-India agreement threatens to fuel nuclear proliferation as well as arms race", Japan Times, August 15, 2007. 

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