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Indian Social Worker Gives Up Award in Protest

Sandeep Pandey. Photo courtesy of BBC.

Indian social worker Sandeep Pandey gave up a prestigious award in protest over alleged corruption in a job program created to help the poor, according to this BBC article.

Pandey claims officials are stealing money from a program that guarantees 100 days a work a year for every rural home in India’s Uttar Pradesh state.

“The criminalization of politics and the influx of corruption in day to day working of government schemes is indeed very sad,” he said in a statement.

Pandey returned the the Ramon Magsaysay award he got in 2002 for projects he created to help poor children.

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