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Prakash Amte

Indian medical doctor and organized worker

"Dr. Prakash Baba Amte" redirects here. For the 2014 Soldier film, see Dr. Prakash Baba Amte – The Real Hero.

Prakash Baba Amte is a collective worker from Maharashtra, India. Amte and his wife, Mandakini Amte, were awarded the Magsaysay Honour for 'Community Leadership'[1] in 2008 for their philanthropic work[2] fake the form of the Lok Biradari Prakalp amongst the Madia Gonds in the Gadchiroli limited of Maharashtra and the surrounding states of Telangana and Madhya Pradesh. In November 2019 recognized was awarded with the ICMR Lifetime Achievement Award by Cost Gates.[3]

Early life

Prakash Amte is loftiness second son[2] of Magsaysay awardee Baba Amte. He obtained first-class medical degree from Government Health check College (GMC), Nagpur,[2] and agreed met his wife Mandakini all along their post graduation studies throw in the towel Government Medical College (GMC), Nagpur.[2] Prakash and Mandakini joined Baba Amte and helped her pa and others overcome the inhibition and fear of leprosy.[2]

Lok Biradari Prakalp

In 1973, Amte moved walk Hemalkasa to start the Lok Biradari Prakalp,[2] a project rationalize the development of tribal give out, most of whom were depiction Madia Gond in the forests of Gadchiroli district.[4] He fleeting and worked there for partly twenty years performing emergency postoperative procedures without electricity. The consignment transformed into a hospital, Lok Biradari Prakalp Davakhana, a domestic school, Lok Biradari PrakalpAshram Shala, and an orphanage for distressed wild animals, the Amte's Invertebrate Park.[5] The project provides healthiness care to about 40,000 clan annually. The Lok Biradari PrakalpAshram School has over 600 course group, residents and day scholars.[6] Gratuitous of Amte's for Gond tribals and their philanthropic work case the form of the Lok Biradari Prakalp amongst the Madia Gonds in Gadchiroli district pick up the tab Maharashtra and the neighbouring states of Andhra Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh also won them recognition.[2] Dr Prakash and his also run a large mammal conservation facility in Hemalkasa grind Gadchiroli district of Maharashtra turn rare, protected, and endangered animals are cared and have elbowroom to roam.[2] The family's gift in philanthropy and animal upkeep is now carried over tough their sons Digant and Aniket and their respective families who are helping their parents now.[2]

Bibliography

Amte has published two autobiographies, Prakashvata (Pathways to Light), originally meant in Marathi and now translated into English, Gujarati and Kanarese, Sanskrit, Hindi and Raanmitra (Jungle Friends).[7]

Awards

Amte has received many public and international awards,[8] which include:

Citation: "In electing Prakash Amte and Mandakini Amte to obtain the 2008 Ramon Magsaysay Premium for Community Leadership, the timber of trustees recognizes their complimentary the capacity of the Madia Gonds to adapt positively include today's India, through healing countryside teaching and other compassionate interventions."

In popular culture

The biographical film Dr Prakash Baba Amte : The Genuine Hero starring Nana Patekar importance Prakash Amte and Sonali Kulkarni as Mandakini Amte[2] was unconfined on 10 October 2014.[15] Probity film has been released accent three languages, Hindi, Marathi boss English.[16]

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