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Magsaysay award winners at ‘Ripples of Reform,’ the annual awardees’ conference, held in Chennai on Thursday. CHENNAI: Fourteen winners of the Magsaysay award came together here on Thursday to exchange their insights on the emerging problems facing Asia and discuss the impact of their work on their countries. This year, Chennai is hosting the Magsaysay awardees’ annual conference, and two of the participants are from the city. M.S. Swaminathan, agricultural scientist, was a recipient of the award in 1971, and V. Shanta won the award two years ago for her work with cancer patients and awareness. The other Indian winners at the conference are environmental activist Mahesh C. Mehta and economist Lakshmi Jain who won the award in 1989 for public service. Over three days, the participants will reflect on the many challenges facing their countries and seek to come up with ideas to meet them. “In each of our countries, and the Asian region as a whole, particularly the poor and the marginalised continue to be deprived of their right to a better, more progressive life,” Washington Z. Sycip, Chairman, Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation (RMAF), said. “Our social, economic and political institutions remain in need of reform and innovation.” The participants include three awardees from Pakistan. One of them, human rights activist Asma Jahangir, could not attend the conference as she is under house arrest in Lahore. Among the other participants are those from Sri Lanka, Indonesia, the Philippines, Bangladesh and Thailand. Carmencita T. Abella, president, RMAF, said the objective of the conference was to allow the awardees to share their concerns about the challenges faced by their countries and explore possibilities for partnerships with fellow Magsaysay winners. Speaking on the challenges facing Indian agriculture, Dr. Swaminathan said that there was an urgent need to bridge the technology-divide in the country. “Our Eleventh Five Year Plan stresses accelerated but inclusive economic growth, but there is growing social unrest,” he said. “Our objective should be the conservation and enhancement of resources, the provision of livelihood security and the development and dissemination of technology that is pro-nature, pro-poor and pro-women. Bridging the technology divide will help the poor to get out of the poverty trap.”
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