Rajendra Singh

Rajendra Singh

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Rajendra Singh is a well known water conservationist from Alwar, Rajasthan in India. He won the Ramon Magsaysay Award for community leadership in 2001 for his pioneering work in water management. He is the founder of an NGO called Tarun Bharat Sangh. The NGO has been instrumental in fighting the slow bureaucracy and has helped villagers take charge of water management in their area, through the use of check dams and other time-tested as well as path-breaking techniques. This NGO played a vital role in reviving Arvari River.

ee also

* Arvari River

Film

Rajendra is featured in Irena Salina's feature documentary .

External links

* [http://www.tribuneindia.com/2001/20010909/spectrum/main5.htm/ Water man]
* [http://www.sanctuaryasia.com/interviews/rajsingh.php An Interview with Rajinder Singh]


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