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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)