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	'''Sandeep Pandey''' (born 22 July 1965) is an Indian social activist.<ref>{{cite web \|url=http://www.hindustantimes.com/News-Feed/india/Through-green-tinted-glasses/Article1-546326.aspx \|title=Archived copy \|access-date=2010-05-28 \|url-status=dead \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110606142649/http://www.hindustantimes.com/News-Feed/india/Through-green-tinted-glasses/Article1-546326.aspx \|archive-date=6 June 2011 \|df=dmy-all }}</ref> He co-founded [[Asha for Education]] with Dr. Deepak Gupta (presently Professor at [[IIT Kanpur]]) and V.J.P Srivastava while working on his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at the [[University of California, Berkeley]].<ref name=mag/> He has taught as a visiting professor at [[Indian Institute of Management Bangalore]], [[Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad]], [[Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar]], [[NALSAR University of Law]] and [[Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) Varanasi]].		'''Sandeep Pandey''' (born 22 July 1965) is an Indian social activist and the present General Secretary of the [[Socialist Party (India), 2011\|Socialist Party (India)]].<ref>{{cite web \|url=http://www.hindustantimes.com/News-Feed/india/Through-green-tinted-glasses/Article1-546326.aspx \|title=Archived copy \|access-date=2010-05-28 \|url-status=dead \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110606142649/http://www.hindustantimes.com/News-Feed/india/Through-green-tinted-glasses/Article1-546326.aspx \|archive-date=6 June 2011 \|df=dmy-all }}</ref> He co-founded [[Asha for Education]] with Dr. Deepak Gupta (presently Professor at [[IIT Kanpur]]) and V.J.P Srivastava while working on his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at the [[University of California, Berkeley]].<ref name=mag/> He has taught as a visiting professor at [[Indian Institute of Management Bangalore]], [[Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad]], [[Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar]], [[NALSAR University of Law]] and [[Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) Varanasi]].

	==Early life==		==Early life==
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	==Personal life==		==Personal life==
	Sandeep is the eldest of the three children of Sri IP Pandey who was an engineer in Railways and retired as member Railway Board. His younger brother Rahul who is an [[IIT Kanpur]] and [[IIM Ahmedabad]] alumnus lives in Bengaluru. His sister Priyanka lives in USA.		Sandeep is the eldest of the three children of Sri U S Pandey who was an engineer in Railways and retired as member Railway Board. His younger brother Rahul who is an [[IIT Kanpur]] and [[IIM Ahmedabad]] alumnus lives in Bengaluru. His sister Priyanka lives in USA.

	Pandey lives in Indira Nagar, [[Lucknow]], Uttar Pradesh. He is married to Arundhati Dhuru and has two children, Chaitanya Pandey and Anandi Pandey.		Pandey lives in Indira Nagar, [[Lucknow]], Uttar Pradesh. He is married to Arundhati Dhuru and has two children, Chaitanya Pandey and Anandi Pandey.

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{{Short description|Indian activist}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Sandeep Pandey
| image = Dr. Sandeep Pandey.jpg
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| caption = Dr. Pandey at his residence in Lucknow in 2019
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1965|07|22}}
| death_place =
| other_names =
| known_for = [[Asha for Education]] and
[http://napm-india.org NAPM] and
[http://www.pucl.org PUCL]
| occupation = Social Activist
| nationality = Indian
| alma_mater = Institute of Technology, [[Banaras Hindu University]] (now [[Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) Varanasi]]), [[Syracuse University]], [[University of California, Berkeley]]
| awards = [[Ramon Magsaysay award]], 2002
}}
[[File:Dr.Sandeep Pandey.jpg|thumb|Dr. Pandey in his chamber in the Chemical Engineering department, IIT (BHU), Varanasi before his expulsion.|260x260px]]
[[File:Dr. Pandey.jpg|thumb|At the launch event of his book "Mujhe Kashi Hindu Vishwavidyalaya Se Kyun Nikala Gaya" at Lucknow on April 22, 2019.|267x267px]]
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'''Sandeep Pandey''' (born 22 July 1965) is an Indian social activist.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.hindustantimes.com/News-Feed/india/Through-green-tinted-glasses/Article1-546326.aspx |title=Archived copy |access-date=2010-05-28 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110606142649/http://www.hindustantimes.com/News-Feed/india/Through-green-tinted-glasses/Article1-546326.aspx |archive-date=6 June 2011 |df=dmy-all }}</ref> He co-founded [[Asha for Education]] with Dr. Deepak Gupta (presently Professor at [[IIT Kanpur]]) and V.J.P Srivastava while working on his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at the [[University of California, Berkeley]].<ref name=mag/> He has taught as a visiting professor at [[Indian Institute of Management Bangalore]], [[Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad]], [[Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar]], [[NALSAR University of Law]] and [[Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) Varanasi]].

==Early life==
Pandey is an alumnus of the Institute of Technology, [[Banaras Hindu University]] (now [[Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) Varanasi]]). Thereafter he did his Master's in manufacturing and computer science from [[Syracuse University]], followed by a doctorate in control theory at the [[University of California, Berkeley]], which he completed in 1992.<ref name=mag>{{cite web |title=Sandeep Pandey Biography |url=http://www.rmaf.org.ph/Awardees/Biography/pdfbio/PandeySan.pdf |year=2002 |publisher=[[Magsaysay Award]] website }}</ref>

==Career==
After completing his education, he moved back to India and started teaching at the [[Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur]] in 1992 and later founded a registered organisation named Asha Trust which currently has several centres/chapters across India. His team has launched a people's group named Asha Parivar in 2008 that focuses on strengthening democracy at the [[grassroots]] in [[Hardoi district]] of [[Uttar Pradesh]].<ref name=mag/>

Pandey's work at Asha Parivar is focused on [[Right to Information]] and other forms of citizen participation in removing corruption and improving the efficiency of governance.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20090412030307/http://www.hindu.com/mag/2009/04/05/stories/2009040550170500.htm 'The Wages of Protest'] by Arundhati Dhuru and Sandeep Pandey</ref> He leads the [[National Alliance of People's Movements]] (NAPM), the largest network of grassroots people's movements in India.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=9XqJ3RxhlQ8C&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_summary_r&cad=0 'Environment Justice'] by John Byrne, Leigh Glover, Cecilia Martinez</ref>

He was awarded the [[Ramon Magsaysay Award]] (often termed the 'Asian Nobel prize') in 2002 for the emergent leadership category.<ref>[http://www.rmaf.org.ph/Awardees/Citation/CitationPandeySan.htm The 2002 Ramon Magsaysay Award for Emergent Leadership] CITATION for Sandeep Pandey</ref> Pandey led an [[Indo-Pakistani relations|Indo-Pakistan]] peace march from New Delhi to Multan in 2005.

He has served as an adviser to the Indian government's Central Advisory Board for Education (CABE). His idea of education is based on empowerment by imbibing the spirit of co-operation instead of competition.

Sandeep Pandey's contract as a visiting faculty in the Chemical Engineering department at Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), Varanasi was prematurely terminated in January, 2016.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jagran.com/uttar-pradesh/lucknow-city-13406797.html|title=contacts with the guerrillas Magsaysay Awardee Sandeep erase in BHU}}</ref>

Statement issued by Sandeep Pandey after being sacked from IIT-BHU
{{Quote|text="My contract at IIT, BHU Varanasi as a visiting faculty has prematurely ended after teaching there for 2.5 years due to a decision of Board of Governors. In a recent Board meeting the Vice Chancellor of BHU, who was made the Chairman of IIT BoG by Minister of HRD, GoI, bypassing the panel of five names recommended by a resolution of BoG, Prof. G.C. Tripathi, and Dean of Faculty Affairs, IIT, BHU, Prof. Dhananjay Pandey, both gentlemen associated with RSS, primarily forced the decision. The charges against me are that I'm a naxalite, showed a banned documentary on Nirbhaya case and am involved in anti-national activities.
I wish to clarify that I'm not a naxalite. The ideology that I would consider myself closest to is Gandhian. But I do identify with the causes taken up by naxalites even though I may not agree with their methods. I also think that it requires a lot of courage and sacrifice to be a naxalite and I certainly don't have that kind of resolve.
The banned documentary on Nirbhaya made by BBC was to be screened in my Development Studies class during the even semester of academic year 2014-15 but the decision was withdrawn after intervention of Chief Proctor of BHU and S.O. of Lanka Police Station just before the class. However, a discussion on the issue of violence against women in our society was conducted after screening a different documentary.
I don't believe in the idea of a nation or national boundaries, which I think are responsible for artificial divisions among human beings similar to ones on the basis of caste or religion. Hence I cannot be anti or pro-nation. I am pro-people. I'm not a nationalist but am a universalist."|author=Sandeep Pandey|source=<ref>{{cite web|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/IIT-BHU-boots-out-Naxal-Magsaysay-winner-as-lecturer/articleshow/50476348.cms|title=IIT-BHU boots out 'Naxal' Magsaysay winner as lecturer - Times of India}}</ref>}}

Later in April 2016, the [[Allahabad High Court]] quashed the decision citing the violation of principal of natural justice.<ref>{{cite news|author1=Press Trust of India|author-link=Press Trust of India|title=Order sacking Pandey from IIT-BHU quashed|url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/Order-sacking-Pandey-from-IIT-BHU-quashed/article14253686.ece|access-date=26 May 2017|work=[[The Hindu]]|date=24 April 2016}}</ref>

In April, 2019 he launched his book titled "Mujhe Kashi Hindu Vishwavidyalaya Se Kyun Nikala Gaya" at New Delhi, Lucknow and Varanasi. This book throws light on the work he did during his stint as professor at IIT (BHU), the reasons and events leading to his expulsion and the elaborate Allahabad High Court judgement clearing him of all the false accusations resulting in his expulsion.

==Controversies==
In 2002, he attended the opening session of a conference organised by the Communist Party of India, Marxist Leninist Liberation, (CPI-MLL). Several prominent social activists, environmentalists, and writers-turned-activists like Mahashweta Devi, Arundhati Roy, Sandeep Pandey, Rajinder Sachar, Praful Bidwai, and Anand Patwardhan attended only the opening session of the six-day congress. Sandeep Pandey and other social activists did not attend the closing session in which the kin of about 1000 Naxalites who were killed in police action in Bihar were reportedly honoured.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rediff.com/news/2002/nov/15naxal.htm|title=CPI-ML faction to honour kin of 1000 Naxalites|work=rediff.com|date=15 November 2002|access-date=5 February 2011}}</ref>

Upon receiving the Ramon Magsaysay Award, he returned the cash portion of the award on being challenged to do so by a Philippine newspaper for his earlier remarks describing America as "the biggest terrorist state in the world." Pandey later clarified that he had never meant to criticise the people of the United States but its government.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Southeast_Asia/DI13Ae02.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020917101615/http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Southeast_Asia/DI13Ae02.html|url-status=unfit|archive-date=17 September 2002|title=Asia's Nobels unfazed by controversy|publisher=atimes.com|date=13 September 2002|access-date=5 February 2011}}</ref>

In 2010, he visited [[Dantewada district]] in Chhattisgarh for a Jan Sunvayi (people's hearing) on atrocities by the local government. His visit was seemingly opposed by some members of local tribal community, where some local tribals were shown to be protesting against him and his team.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20130419042851/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2010-01-07/india/28114789_1_naxal-hit-areas-narmada-bachao-andolan-tribals]</ref> It was said by Medha Patkar, that the protest was "stage managed" by the district administration officials themselves and the government was rousing the locals rural folk against the civil rights workers.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/videoshow/5420811.cms|title=Dantewada tribals throw eggs at Medha Patkar, Watch Videos Online - Times of India Videos}}</ref> Patkar also added that their team is not in favour of government responding to the violence perpetrated by [[Maoists]] by further violence by the state. She referred to Salwa Judum as an example of excesses by the state.

==Personal life==
Sandeep is the eldest of the three children of Sri IP Pandey who was an engineer in Railways and retired as member Railway Board. His younger brother Rahul who is an [[IIT Kanpur]] and [[IIM Ahmedabad]] alumnus lives in Bengaluru. His sister Priyanka lives in USA.

Pandey lives in Indira Nagar, [[Lucknow]], Uttar Pradesh. He is married to Arundhati Dhuru and has two children, Chaitanya Pandey and Anandi Pandey.
He does not wear ironed clothes and does not take milk, as according to him, cows produce milk for their young ones.
He has campaigned along with school students of Shiksha Niketan and its principal, Dr. Brahmanand Mishra, in his home district of Ballia, against soft drink manufacturers .

==See also==
*[[Right to Information Act]]

==References==
{{Reflist|2}}

==External links==
*[http://www.ashanet.org/pandey/visit2005/bio.html Detailed Bio of Sandeep Pandey]

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