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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;}}&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;}}&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#039;&#039;&#039;Lalit Pande&#039;&#039;&#039; is an Indian social worker, environmentalist and the founder of &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;[[&lt;/del&gt;Uttarakhand Seva Nidhi Environmental Education Centre&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;]]&lt;/del&gt;, a [[non governmental organization]] promoting environmental education in the hilly areas of the Indian state of [[Uttarakhand]].&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;Dr. Lalit Pande &quot;&amp;gt;{{cite web | url=https://alumni.iitd.ac.in/content/dr-lalit-pande | title=Dr. Lalit Pande | publisher=AAIP Portal | date=2015 | accessdate=20 December 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151223005435/https://alumni.iitd.ac.in/content/dr-lalit-pande | archive-date=23 December 2015 | url-status=dead }}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; Under the aegis of the organization, Pande is known to have introduced community educational programmes focused on environment and development&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;Uttarakhand Seva Nidhi Paryavaran Shiksha Sansthan&quot;&amp;gt;{{cite web | url=https://projects.aidindia.org/content/uttarakhand-seva-nidhi-paryavaran-shiksha-sansthan | title=Uttarakhand Seva Nidhi Paryavaran Shiksha Sansthan | publisher=Aid India Projects | date=2015 | accessdate=20 December 2015}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; and supported over 200 community based organizations in the state.&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;Dot Com Mantra: Social Computing in the Central Himalayas&quot;&amp;gt;{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ExIOq8R_8OAC&amp;amp;q=Lalit+Pande&amp;amp;pg=PA78 | title=Dot Com Mantra: Social Computing in the Central Himalayas | publisher=Ashgate Publishing | author=Payal Arora | year=2012 | pages=206 | isbn=9781409488729}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; The Government of India awarded him the fourth highest civilian honour of the [[Padma Shri]], in 2007, for his contributions to environmental education.&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;Padma Awards&quot;&amp;gt;{{cite web|url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |title=Padma Awards |publisher=Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India |date=2015 |accessdate=21 July 2015 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://www.webcitation.org/6U68ulwpb?url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |archivedate=15 November 2014 }}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#039;&#039;&#039;Lalit Pande&#039;&#039;&#039; is an Indian social worker, environmentalist and the founder of Uttarakhand Seva Nidhi Environmental Education Centre, a [[non governmental organization]] promoting environmental education in the hilly areas of the Indian state of [[Uttarakhand]].&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;Dr. Lalit Pande &quot;&amp;gt;{{cite web | url=https://alumni.iitd.ac.in/content/dr-lalit-pande | title=Dr. Lalit Pande | publisher=AAIP Portal | date=2015 | accessdate=20 December 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151223005435/https://alumni.iitd.ac.in/content/dr-lalit-pande | archive-date=23 December 2015 | url-status=dead }}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; Under the aegis of the organization, Pande is known to have introduced community educational programmes focused on environment and development&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;Uttarakhand Seva Nidhi Paryavaran Shiksha Sansthan&quot;&amp;gt;{{cite web | url=https://projects.aidindia.org/content/uttarakhand-seva-nidhi-paryavaran-shiksha-sansthan | title=Uttarakhand Seva Nidhi Paryavaran Shiksha Sansthan | publisher=Aid India Projects | date=2015 | accessdate=20 December 2015}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; and supported over 200 community based organizations in the state.&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;Dot Com Mantra: Social Computing in the Central Himalayas&quot;&amp;gt;{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ExIOq8R_8OAC&amp;amp;q=Lalit+Pande&amp;amp;pg=PA78 | title=Dot Com Mantra: Social Computing in the Central Himalayas | publisher=Ashgate Publishing | author=Payal Arora | year=2012 | pages=206 | isbn=9781409488729}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; The Government of India awarded him the fourth highest civilian honour of the [[Padma Shri]], in 2007, for his contributions to environmental education.&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;Padma Awards&quot;&amp;gt;{{cite web|url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |title=Padma Awards |publisher=Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India |date=2015 |accessdate=21 July 2015 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://www.webcitation.org/6U68ulwpb?url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |archivedate=15 November 2014 }}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;== Biography ==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;== Biography ==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;Lalit Pande was born in a socially known [[Almora]] family to Vimla Pande and [[B. D. Pande|Bhairav Dutt Pande]], an [[Indian civil service|Indian Civil Service]] officer,&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;Pande takes top post for two years&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{cite web | url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1020911/asp/nation/story_1187782.asp | title=Pande takes top post for two years | newspaper=The Telegraph | date=11 September 2002 | accessdate=22 December 2015}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; a 1972 [[Padma Shri]] recipient&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;Dot Com Mantra: Social Computing in the Central Himalayas&amp;quot; /&amp;gt; and a former Governor of the states of [[West Bengal]] and [[Punjab]].&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;Grace without measure&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{cite web | url=http://archive.indianexpress.com/news/grace-without-measure/15805/ | title=Grace without measure | publisher=Indian Express | date=1 November 2006 | accessdate=20 December 2015}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; His uncle, Vinod Pande, was also a former Governor and a Cabinet Secretary and his sister-in-law, [[Mrinal Pande]], is a [[Padma Shri]] award winning journalist and the author of &amp;#039;&amp;#039;[[The Other Country: Dispatches from the Mofussil]]&amp;#039;&amp;#039;. His schooling was at [[The Doon School]], the [[Dehradun]] based premier educational institution,&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;3 Bangalore schools among India&amp;#039;s best&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{cite web | url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bangalore/3-Bangalore-schools-among-Indias-best/articleshow/10286306.cms?referral=PM | title=3 Bangalore schools among India&amp;#039;s best | newspaper=Times of India | date=9 October 2011 | accessdate=20 December 2015}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; and graduated in Engineering from the [[Indian Institute of Technology]], Delhi, in 1970.&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;A Deodar Or A Chocolate Bar?&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{cite web | url=http://www.outlookindia.com/article/a-deodar-or-a-chocolate-bar/232551 | title=A Deodar Or A Chocolate Bar? | publisher=Outlook India | date=18 September 2006 | accessdate=20 December 2015}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; Later, moving to [[Cambridge, Massachusetts|Cambridge]], he secured a master&amp;#039;s degree from the [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]] (MIT) in 1972.&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;IIT Delhi Distinguished Alumni Awardees&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{cite web | url=http://iitdalumni.com/node/91194 | title=IIT Delhi Distinguished Alumni Awardees | publisher=IIT Alumni Association | date=2015 | accessdate=22 December 2015}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;Lalit Pande was born in a socially known [[Almora]] family to Vimla Pande and [[B. D. Pande|Bhairav Dutt Pande]], an [[Indian civil service|Indian Civil Service]] officer,&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;Pande takes top post for two years&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{cite web | url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1020911/asp/nation/story_1187782.asp | title=Pande takes top post for two years | newspaper=The Telegraph | date=11 September 2002 | accessdate=22 December 2015}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; a 1972 [[Padma Shri]] recipient&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;Dot Com Mantra: Social Computing in the Central Himalayas&amp;quot; /&amp;gt; and a former Governor of the states of [[West Bengal]] and [[Punjab]].&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;Grace without measure&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{cite web | url=http://archive.indianexpress.com/news/grace-without-measure/15805/ | title=Grace without measure | publisher=Indian Express | date=1 November 2006 | accessdate=20 December 2015}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; His uncle, Vinod Pande, was also a former Governor and a Cabinet Secretary and his sister-in-law, [[Mrinal Pande]], is a [[Padma Shri]] award winning journalist and the author of &amp;#039;&amp;#039;[[The Other Country: Dispatches from the Mofussil]]&amp;#039;&amp;#039;. His schooling was at [[The Doon School]], the [[Dehradun]] based premier educational institution,&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;3 Bangalore schools among India&amp;#039;s best&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{cite web | url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bangalore/3-Bangalore-schools-among-Indias-best/articleshow/10286306.cms?referral=PM | title=3 Bangalore schools among India&amp;#039;s best | newspaper=Times of India | date=9 October 2011 | accessdate=20 December 2015}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; and graduated in Engineering from the [[Indian Institute of Technology]], Delhi, in 1970.&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;A Deodar Or A Chocolate Bar?&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{cite web | url=http://www.outlookindia.com/article/a-deodar-or-a-chocolate-bar/232551 | title=A Deodar Or A Chocolate Bar? | publisher=Outlook India | date=18 September 2006 | accessdate=20 December 2015}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; Later, moving to [[Cambridge, Massachusetts|Cambridge]], he secured a master&amp;#039;s degree from the [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]] (MIT) in 1972.&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;IIT Delhi Distinguished Alumni Awardees&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{cite web | url=http://iitdalumni.com/node/91194 | title=IIT Delhi Distinguished Alumni Awardees | publisher=IIT Alumni Association | date=2015 | accessdate=22 December 2015}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;Returning to India, he worked in various places, including at [[Cadbury&#039;s]], but shifted back to the US to pursue his doctoral studies and gained a doctoral degree (PhD) from [[Purdue University]] in 1982. Eschewing a regular job, he went to his ancestral town of [[Almora]], a hilly region in [[Uttarakhand]], in 1984, where he started a [[non governmental organization]], &#039;&#039;Uttarakhand Seva Nidhi Paryavaran Shiksha Sansthan&#039;&#039; (USNPSS), &#039;&#039;Uttarakhand Seva Nidhi&#039;&#039; for short, to start his social career.&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;IIT Delhi Distinguished Alumni Awardees&quot; /&amp;gt; Securing a grant of {{INR}}200,000 from the Government of India, under the New Education Policy of 1986, the organization functioned from a room at Pande&#039;s residence and worked for promoting environmental education in the state.&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;A Deodar Or A Chocolate Bar?&quot; /&amp;gt; Over the years, they are reported to have been successful in introducing environmental education as a subject in the middle school curriculum of the state, which is related to the topics of &#039;&#039;food, fodder, water, trees, crops, soil, manure and rainfall&#039;&#039;. They are also supporting over 300 pre-primary schools in the state.&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;A Deodar Or A Chocolate Bar?&quot; /&amp;gt; The organization is associated with agencies such as [[UNESCO]], in the matters related to environmental sustainability&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;Community Empowerment towards Environmental Sustainability&quot;&amp;gt;{{cite journal | url=http://www.cbdportal.net/Resources/Detail.asp?ResID=955240873273772 | title=Community Empowerment towards Environmental Sustainability | author=Shirin Mehrgan | journal=Community-based Developmental Portal | year=2002}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; and Pande serves as the director of the &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;[[&lt;/del&gt;Uttarakhand Seva Nidhi Environmental Education Centre&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;]]&lt;/del&gt;. He is also involved with the other issues of social interest in the state.&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;The Uttarakhand Floods: A view from Kumaon&quot;&amp;gt;{{cite web | url=http://www.sify.com/news/the-uttarakhand-floods-a-view-from-kumaon-news-columns-nhwlujbhafa.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130722153512/http://www.sify.com/news/the-uttarakhand-floods-a-view-from-kumaon-news-columns-nhwlujbhafa.html | url-status=dead | archive-date=22 July 2013 | title=The Uttarakhand Floods: A view from Kumaon | publisher=Sify | date=22 July 2013 | accessdate=22 December 2015}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;Returning to India, he worked in various places, including at [[Cadbury&#039;s]], but shifted back to the US to pursue his doctoral studies and gained a doctoral degree (PhD) from [[Purdue University]] in 1982. Eschewing a regular job, he went to his ancestral town of [[Almora]], a hilly region in [[Uttarakhand]], in 1984, where he started a [[non governmental organization]], &#039;&#039;Uttarakhand Seva Nidhi Paryavaran Shiksha Sansthan&#039;&#039; (USNPSS), &#039;&#039;Uttarakhand Seva Nidhi&#039;&#039; for short, to start his social career.&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;IIT Delhi Distinguished Alumni Awardees&quot; /&amp;gt; Securing a grant of {{INR}}200,000 from the Government of India, under the New Education Policy of 1986, the organization functioned from a room at Pande&#039;s residence and worked for promoting environmental education in the state.&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;A Deodar Or A Chocolate Bar?&quot; /&amp;gt; Over the years, they are reported to have been successful in introducing environmental education as a subject in the middle school curriculum of the state, which is related to the topics of &#039;&#039;food, fodder, water, trees, crops, soil, manure and rainfall&#039;&#039;. They are also supporting over 300 pre-primary schools in the state.&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;A Deodar Or A Chocolate Bar?&quot; /&amp;gt; The organization is associated with agencies such as [[UNESCO]], in the matters related to environmental sustainability&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;Community Empowerment towards Environmental Sustainability&quot;&amp;gt;{{cite journal | url=http://www.cbdportal.net/Resources/Detail.asp?ResID=955240873273772 | title=Community Empowerment towards Environmental Sustainability | author=Shirin Mehrgan | journal=Community-based Developmental Portal | year=2002}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; and Pande serves as the director of the Uttarakhand Seva Nidhi Environmental Education Centre. He is also involved with the other issues of social interest in the state.&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;The Uttarakhand Floods: A view from Kumaon&quot;&amp;gt;{{cite web | url=http://www.sify.com/news/the-uttarakhand-floods-a-view-from-kumaon-news-columns-nhwlujbhafa.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130722153512/http://www.sify.com/news/the-uttarakhand-floods-a-view-from-kumaon-news-columns-nhwlujbhafa.html | url-status=dead | archive-date=22 July 2013 | title=The Uttarakhand Floods: A view from Kumaon | publisher=Sify | date=22 July 2013 | accessdate=22 December 2015}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;The Government of India awarded him the civilian honour of the [[Padma Shri]] in 2007.&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;Padma Awards&amp;quot; /&amp;gt; His alma mater, the [[Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi]], awarded him the Distinguished Alumni Award in 2014.&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;IIT Delhi Distinguished Alumni Awardees&amp;quot; /&amp;gt; Pande is married to Anuradha, who is also involved in his social activities, attending to the women&amp;#039;s forums of the Uttarakhand Seva Nidhi.&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;Dot Com Mantra: Social Computing in the Central Himalayas&amp;quot; /&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;The Government of India awarded him the civilian honour of the [[Padma Shri]] in 2007.&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;Padma Awards&amp;quot; /&amp;gt; His alma mater, the [[Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi]], awarded him the Distinguished Alumni Award in 2014.&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;IIT Delhi Distinguished Alumni Awardees&amp;quot; /&amp;gt; Pande is married to Anuradha, who is also involved in his social activities, attending to the women&amp;#039;s forums of the Uttarakhand Seva Nidhi.&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;Dot Com Mantra: Social Computing in the Central Himalayas&amp;quot; /&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Merging &lt;a href=&quot;/wiki/Category:Indian_male_social_workers&quot; title=&quot;Category:Indian male social workers&quot;&gt;Category:Indian male social workers&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;a href=&quot;/wiki/Category:Social_workers&quot; title=&quot;Category:Social workers&quot;&gt;Category:Social workers&lt;/a&gt; per &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.bharatpedia.org/wiki/Bharatpedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2021_July_3#Category:Male_social_workers&quot; class=&quot;extiw&quot; title=&quot;wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2021 July 3&quot;&gt;Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2021 July 3#Category:Male social workers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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| education = [[The Doon School]]&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;[[Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi]]&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;[[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]] &lt;br /&gt;
| occupation              = Environmentalist&lt;br /&gt;
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| known for               = Environmental education, sustainability in ecologically fragile regions of [[Uttarakhand]]&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;Lalit Pande&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039; is an Indian social worker, environmentalist and the founder of [[Uttarakhand Seva Nidhi Environmental Education Centre]], a [[non governmental organization]] promoting environmental education in the hilly areas of the Indian state of [[Uttarakhand]].&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;Dr. Lalit Pande &amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{cite web | url=https://alumni.iitd.ac.in/content/dr-lalit-pande | title=Dr. Lalit Pande | publisher=AAIP Portal | date=2015 | accessdate=20 December 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151223005435/https://alumni.iitd.ac.in/content/dr-lalit-pande | archive-date=23 December 2015 | url-status=dead }}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; Under the aegis of the organization, Pande is known to have introduced community educational programmes focused on environment and development&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;Uttarakhand Seva Nidhi Paryavaran Shiksha Sansthan&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{cite web | url=https://projects.aidindia.org/content/uttarakhand-seva-nidhi-paryavaran-shiksha-sansthan | title=Uttarakhand Seva Nidhi Paryavaran Shiksha Sansthan | publisher=Aid India Projects | date=2015 | accessdate=20 December 2015}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; and supported over 200 community based organizations in the state.&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;Dot Com Mantra: Social Computing in the Central Himalayas&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ExIOq8R_8OAC&amp;amp;q=Lalit+Pande&amp;amp;pg=PA78 | title=Dot Com Mantra: Social Computing in the Central Himalayas | publisher=Ashgate Publishing | author=Payal Arora | year=2012 | pages=206 | isbn=9781409488729}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; The Government of India awarded him the fourth highest civilian honour of the [[Padma Shri]], in 2007, for his contributions to environmental education.&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;Padma Awards&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{cite web|url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |title=Padma Awards |publisher=Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India |date=2015 |accessdate=21 July 2015 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://www.webcitation.org/6U68ulwpb?url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |archivedate=15 November 2014 }}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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== Biography ==&lt;br /&gt;
Lalit Pande was born in a socially known [[Almora]] family to Vimla Pande and [[B. D. Pande|Bhairav Dutt Pande]], an [[Indian civil service|Indian Civil Service]] officer,&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;Pande takes top post for two years&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{cite web | url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1020911/asp/nation/story_1187782.asp | title=Pande takes top post for two years | newspaper=The Telegraph | date=11 September 2002 | accessdate=22 December 2015}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; a 1972 [[Padma Shri]] recipient&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;Dot Com Mantra: Social Computing in the Central Himalayas&amp;quot; /&amp;gt; and a former Governor of the states of [[West Bengal]] and [[Punjab]].&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;Grace without measure&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{cite web | url=http://archive.indianexpress.com/news/grace-without-measure/15805/ | title=Grace without measure | publisher=Indian Express | date=1 November 2006 | accessdate=20 December 2015}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; His uncle, Vinod Pande, was also a former Governor and a Cabinet Secretary and his sister-in-law, [[Mrinal Pande]], is a [[Padma Shri]] award winning journalist and the author of &amp;#039;&amp;#039;[[The Other Country: Dispatches from the Mofussil]]&amp;#039;&amp;#039;. His schooling was at [[The Doon School]], the [[Dehradun]] based premier educational institution,&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;3 Bangalore schools among India&amp;#039;s best&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{cite web | url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bangalore/3-Bangalore-schools-among-Indias-best/articleshow/10286306.cms?referral=PM | title=3 Bangalore schools among India&amp;#039;s best | newspaper=Times of India | date=9 October 2011 | accessdate=20 December 2015}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; and graduated in Engineering from the [[Indian Institute of Technology]], Delhi, in 1970.&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;A Deodar Or A Chocolate Bar?&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{cite web | url=http://www.outlookindia.com/article/a-deodar-or-a-chocolate-bar/232551 | title=A Deodar Or A Chocolate Bar? | publisher=Outlook India | date=18 September 2006 | accessdate=20 December 2015}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; Later, moving to [[Cambridge, Massachusetts|Cambridge]], he secured a master&amp;#039;s degree from the [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]] (MIT) in 1972.&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;IIT Delhi Distinguished Alumni Awardees&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{cite web | url=http://iitdalumni.com/node/91194 | title=IIT Delhi Distinguished Alumni Awardees | publisher=IIT Alumni Association | date=2015 | accessdate=22 December 2015}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Returning to India, he worked in various places, including at [[Cadbury&amp;#039;s]], but shifted back to the US to pursue his doctoral studies and gained a doctoral degree (PhD) from [[Purdue University]] in 1982. Eschewing a regular job, he went to his ancestral town of [[Almora]], a hilly region in [[Uttarakhand]], in 1984, where he started a [[non governmental organization]], &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Uttarakhand Seva Nidhi Paryavaran Shiksha Sansthan&amp;#039;&amp;#039; (USNPSS), &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Uttarakhand Seva Nidhi&amp;#039;&amp;#039; for short, to start his social career.&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;IIT Delhi Distinguished Alumni Awardees&amp;quot; /&amp;gt; Securing a grant of {{INR}}200,000 from the Government of India, under the New Education Policy of 1986, the organization functioned from a room at Pande&amp;#039;s residence and worked for promoting environmental education in the state.&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;A Deodar Or A Chocolate Bar?&amp;quot; /&amp;gt; Over the years, they are reported to have been successful in introducing environmental education as a subject in the middle school curriculum of the state, which is related to the topics of &amp;#039;&amp;#039;food, fodder, water, trees, crops, soil, manure and rainfall&amp;#039;&amp;#039;. They are also supporting over 300 pre-primary schools in the state.&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;A Deodar Or A Chocolate Bar?&amp;quot; /&amp;gt; The organization is associated with agencies such as [[UNESCO]], in the matters related to environmental sustainability&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;Community Empowerment towards Environmental Sustainability&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{cite journal | url=http://www.cbdportal.net/Resources/Detail.asp?ResID=955240873273772 | title=Community Empowerment towards Environmental Sustainability | author=Shirin Mehrgan | journal=Community-based Developmental Portal | year=2002}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; and Pande serves as the director of the [[Uttarakhand Seva Nidhi Environmental Education Centre]]. He is also involved with the other issues of social interest in the state.&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;The Uttarakhand Floods: A view from Kumaon&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{cite web | url=http://www.sify.com/news/the-uttarakhand-floods-a-view-from-kumaon-news-columns-nhwlujbhafa.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130722153512/http://www.sify.com/news/the-uttarakhand-floods-a-view-from-kumaon-news-columns-nhwlujbhafa.html | url-status=dead | archive-date=22 July 2013 | title=The Uttarakhand Floods: A view from Kumaon | publisher=Sify | date=22 July 2013 | accessdate=22 December 2015}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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The Government of India awarded him the civilian honour of the [[Padma Shri]] in 2007.&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;Padma Awards&amp;quot; /&amp;gt; His alma mater, the [[Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi]], awarded him the Distinguished Alumni Award in 2014.&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;IIT Delhi Distinguished Alumni Awardees&amp;quot; /&amp;gt; Pande is married to Anuradha, who is also involved in his social activities, attending to the women&amp;#039;s forums of the Uttarakhand Seva Nidhi.&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;Dot Com Mantra: Social Computing in the Central Himalayas&amp;quot; /&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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== See also ==&lt;br /&gt;
{{portal|India|Environment}}&lt;br /&gt;
* [[List of Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni]]&lt;br /&gt;
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