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dam-l LS: Baba Amte Awarded Gandhi Peace Prize
Note : Veteran Gandhian Baba Amte is a father figure for activists in the
Narmada Valley. Baba left his beloved Anandwan to settle down on the banks
of the Narmada in solidarity with the people of the valley and has pledged
to spend the rest of his life there.
For more details, please read "Baba's Vanaprashta" in Rajni Bakshi's
fascinating "Bapu Kuti : Journeys in the Rediscovery of Gandhi" (Penguin
India).
Venu
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>From today's Asian Age
Baba Amte to get 1999 Gandhi prize
New Delhi:Gandhian and noted
social worker Baba Amte has
been chosen for the coveted
Gandhi Peace Prize for 1999 for
his exemplary work for treatment
and rehabilitation of leprosy
patients and his concept of the
"Shramik Vidyapeeth."
A high-powered jury chaired by
Prime Minister Atal Behari
Vajpayee unanimously decided to
confer the award on the
85-year-old Amte, Union
minister for culture, youth affairs
and sports Ananth Kumar told
reporters here on Friday. Other
members of the jury were leader
of the Opposition in the Lok
Sabha, Mrs Sonia Gandhi, Chief
Justice of India a.s. anand and
former President r. venkataraman. (PTI)