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India's Sonam Wangchuk, Bharat Vatwani Won Ramon Magsaysay Award
India's Sonam Wangchuk, Bharat Vatwani Won Ramon Magsaysay Award 2018: Highlights
India's renowned engineer Sonam Wanchuk and Dr. Bharat Vatwani have named to won Asia's just like Nobel Prize prestigious Ramon Magsaysay Award-2018.
Bharat Vatwani was awarded for leading the rescue of thousands of mentally ill street paupers to treat and reunite them with their families.
Sonam Wangchuk won the award for his contribution in harnessing nature, culture, and education for community progress.
The other four recipients of Ramon Magsaysay Award-2018 named are a Filipino who led peace talks with communist insurgents, a polio-stricken Vietnamese who fought discrimination against the disabled, an East Timorese who built care centers for the poor amid civil strife.
All the awardees will be presented with the Ramon Magsaysay Award-2018 in Manila, Phillippine on 31st August 2018.
Ramon Magsaysay Award was named after a Philippine president who died in a 1957 plane crash.
