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Download Solution PDFWho was awarded the Mother Teresa Memorial Award for Social Justice 2021?
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Download Solution PDFThe correct answer is Anil Prakash Joshi.Key Points
- Dr Anil Prakash Joshi, an environmentalist, was awarded the Mother Teresa Memorial Award for Social Justice 2021. He was also conferred upon with the Padma Bhushan this year.
- The other recipients of the Mother Teresa Memorial Award were Vidyut Mohan, the winner of the Earth-shot Prize, and Ridhima Pandey, a young environmental activist from Uttarakhand.
- The Harmony Foundation holds the Mother Teresa Memorial Awards annually, and selects a theme each year. For this year, the theme was environmental sustainability.
- The foundation's founder chairman, Dr Abraham Mathai, felicitated the awardees.
- Dr Joshi received the award for his work that affected over 10,000 villages in the Himalayan region through his organization, the Himalayan Environmental Studies & Conservation Organization.
- Vidyut Mohan was acknowledged for his creative efforts in fighting air pollution through his social enterprise Takachar.
- Ridhima Pandey received the award for her exceptional courage and unyielding spirit as a youth environmental activist, whose efforts have spurred national engagement in stopping climate change.
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