Multiple choice general knowledge history

The Ramon Magsaysay Award winner Shanta Sinha known as

  1. a campaigner for urban sanitation

  2. an anti-child labour activist

  3. an organiser of rain-water harvesting schemes

  4. an activist for the welfare of poor rural women
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B Correct answer
Explanation

Shanta Sinha, who won the Ramon Magsaysay Award in 2003, is renowned as an anti-child labour activist. She founded the Mamidipudi Venkatarangaiya Foundation (MVF) which has liberated thousands of children from child labour and sent them to school. Her work specifically focuses on eliminating child labour rather than urban sanitation, rain-water harvesting, or rural women's welfare.

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