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Jamnalal Bajaj award for Gandhian

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Ravindranath Upadhyay, recipient of the Jamnalal Bajaj award.

MUMBAI Sept. 29. Ravindranath Upadhyay, a Gandhian who pioneered the concept of a common granary for the rural areas where villagers can deposit their produce according to their capacity and take it back at times of need, has been named for this year's Jamnalal Bajaj award for constructive work.

The award for applying science and technology for rural development is being given to a former politician, Vinayak Patil, for developing a cooperative movement for planting of 15 million eucalyptus trees in one district alone without outside financial support.

Announcing the awards, to be given away on November 4 here, a trustee of the Jamnalal Bajaj Foundation, Madhur Bajaj (vice-chairman, Bajaj Auto Ltd.) said the award for the uplift of women and children named after Jankidevi Bajaj, will be conferred on Alice Garg, former teacher.

The international award for promoting Gandhian values will be given to Mary E. King, who worked alongside Martin Luther King Jr. (no relation) on civil rights issues. Ms. Garg, the Foundation said, gave a home to 183 destitute children and ran unique mobile camel-borne libraries in Rajasthan. The award carries Rs. 5 lakhs.

Mr. Upadhyay, who works in Assam, has been described as a ``crusader against violence'' and the work of his organisation, Tamulpur Anchalik Gramdan Sangh a ``symbol of integration, decentralised economic development, human kindness and force against injustice and disharmony.''

Mr. Patil's Nashik Eucalyptus Growers Cooperative, set up 20 years ago, has found a response even in Egypt and its work of planting trees on farmers' land has spread to 15 other districts and 25 cooperatives. All this is done without inputs from outside and local leadership is developed for it.

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