RAMON MAGSAYSAY AWARD

RAMON MAGSAYSAY AWARD

The Ramon Magsaysay Award is an annual award established to perpetuate former Philippine President Ramon Magsaysay's example of integrity in government, courageous service to the people, and pragmatic idealism within a democratic society. The Ramon Magsaysay Award is often considered to be Asia's Nobel Prize. The prize was established in April 1957 by the trustees of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund based in New York City with the concurrence of the Philippine government.

Awarded for  Outstanding contributions in Government Service, Public Service, Community Leadership, Journalism, Literature and Creative Communication Arts, Peace and International Understanding and Emergent Leadership

Country                      Philippines

Presented by        Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation

First awarded      1958

Vinobha Bhave was the first Indian to get this prestigious award in 1958 for community leadership.

Indian Winners of Ramon Magsaysay Award (Year wise list)

Year          Name                                      Category

·         1958          Vinoba Bhave                         Community Leadership (CL)

·         1961          Amitabha Chowdhury                        (JLCCA)

·         1962          Mother Teresa                         Peace and International Understanding (PIU)

·         1963          Tribhuvandas Patel, Dr. Dara N Khurody, Verghese Kurien             Community Leadership (CL)

·         1964          Welthy Fisher                          and International Understanding (PIU)

·         1965          Jayaprakash Narayan              Public Service (PS)

·         1966          Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay   Community Leadership (CL)

·         1967          Satyajit Ray                            (JLCCA)

·         1971          M.S. Swaminathan                  Community Leadership (CL)

·         1974          M.S. Subbulakshmi                 Public Service (PS)

·         1975          Boobli George Verghese         (JLCCA)

·         1976          Henning Holck-Larsen            Peace and International Understanding (PIU)

·         1976          Sombhu Mitra                         (JLCCA)

·         1977          Ela Bhatt                                 Community Leadership (CL)

·         1979          Rajanikant Arole, Mabelle Arole        Community Leadership (CL)

·         1981          Gour Kishore Ghosh               (JLCCA)

·         1981          Pramod Karan Sethi                Community Leadership (CL)

·         1982          Arun Shourie                           (JLCCA)

·         1982          Chandi Prasad Bhatt               Community Leadership (CL)

·         1982          Manibhai Desai                       Public Service (PS)

·         1984          R. K. Laxman                         (JLCCA)

·         1985          Baba Amte                              Public Service (PS)

·         1989          Lakshmi Chand Jain               Public Service (PS)

·         1991          K.V. Subbanna                       (JLCCA)

·         1992          Ravi Shankar                           (JLCCA)

·         1993          Banoo Jehangir Coyaji            Public Service (PS)

·         1994          Kiran Bedi                              Government Service (GS)

·         1996          Pandurang Shastri Athavale   Community Leadership (CL)

·         1996          T N Seshan                              Government Service (GS)

·         1997          Mahasweta Devi                     (JLCCA)

·         1997          Mahesh Chandra Mehta Public Service (PS)

·         2000          Aruna Roy                              Community Leadership (CL)

·         2000          Jockin Arputham                     Peace and International Understanding (PIU)

·         2001          Rajendra Singh                       Community Leadership (CL)

·         2002          Sandeep Pandey                     Emergent Leadership (EL)

·         2003          James Michael Lyngdoh         Government Service (GS)

·         2003          Shantha Sinha                         Community Leadership (CL)

·         2004          Laxminarayan Ramdas           Peace and International Understanding (PIU)

·         2005          V Shanta                                 Public Service (PS)

·         2006          Arvind Kejriwal                      Emergent Leadership (EL)

·         2007          Palagummi Sainath                 (JLCCA)

·         2008          Mandakini Amte and Prakash Amte  Community Leadership (CL)

·         2009          Deep Joshi                               Uncategorized

·         2011          Harish Hande                          Uncategorized

·         2011          Nileema Mishra                       Emergent Leadership (EL)

·         2012          Kulandei Francis                     Uncategorized

·         2013          Jenil Shah                                Government Service (GS)

Other Magsaysay Award winners for 2013:

    Ernesto Domingo: A pioneering doctor from the Philippines

    Lahpai Seng Raw: Aid worker in Myanmar

    Habiba Sarabi: Afghanistan’s only female governor

    Shakti Samuha: Anti-trafficking organization in Nepal.