Anshu Gupta & Sanjiv Chaturvedi won Ramon Magsaysay Award

Anshu Gupta & Sanjiv Chaturvedi win Ramon Magsaysay Award Established in 1957, the Ramon Magsaysay Award is Asia's highest honour (Famous as ASIAN NOBLE ) and is widely regarded as the region's equivalent of the Nobel Prize. Whistleblower Indian forest officer Sanjiv Chaturvedi and founder of NGO Goonj Anshu Gupta are the two Indians selected for this year's Ramon Magsaysay Award.The Board of Trustees of the Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation (RMAF) today announced that this year five individuals from India, Chanthavon from Laos, Kyam thu from Myanmar, and the Ligya Fernando from Philippines will receive Asia’s premier prize, the Ramon Magsaysay Award.