Sandeep Pandey
| Sandeep Pandey | |
|---|---|
| Born |
22 July 1965 Ballia |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Alma mater | Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University (now Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) Varanasi) |
| Occupation | Activist |
| Known for |
Asha for Education and NAPM and PUCL |
| Awards | Ramon Magsaysay award, 2002 |
Asha for Education and NAPM and
Sandeep Pandey (born 22 July 1965) is an Indian social activist. who is currently a visiting faculty at IIT Gandhinagar. He co-founded Asha for Education with Dr. Deepak Gupta (presently Professor at IIT Kanpur) and V.J.P Srivastava while working on his Ph.D in Mechanical Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. He is currently a visiting professor at the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar.
Pandey is an alumnus of the Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University (now Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) Varanasi). Thereafter he did his Master's in manufacturing and computer science from Syracuse University, followed by a doctorate in control theory at the University of California, Berkeley, which he completed in 1992.
After completing his education, he moved back to India and started teaching at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur in 1992 and later founded a registered organisation named Asha Trust which currently has several centres/chapters across India. His team has launched a people's group named Asha Parivar in 2008 that focuses on strengthening democracy at the grassroots in Hardoi district of Uttar Pradesh.
Pandey's 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 the National Alliance of People's Movements (NAPM), the largest network of grassroots people's movements in India.
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