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All you need to know about whistleblower and Magsaysay award winner Sanjeev Chaturvedi

Whistleblower and IAS officer Sanjeev Chaturvedi has been chosen for the prestigious Ramon Magsaysay Award for 2015.

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Whistleblower and IAS officer Sanjeev Chaturvedi has been chosen as one of the people to be awarded with the prestigious Ramon Magsaysay Award for 2015.

In its release, RMAF said,"Sanjeev Chaturvedi is being recognised for his exemplary integrity, courage and tenacity in uncompromisingly exposing and painstakingly investigating corruption in public office, and his resolute crafting of program and system improvements to ensure that government honourably serves the people of India." 

Here is all you need to know about man of the hour:

1. Sanjeev Chaturvedi has a degree in Electrical Engineering from Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology (NIT Allahabad)
 
2. He is an officer of the 2002 batch of the Indian Forest Service from Haryana cadre.

3. Chaturvedi was ranked second in the IFS exam and won two medals for excellence as a trainee.

4. At his first posting in Kurukshetra, he exposed a corrupt contractor involved in construction of the Hansi Butana canal.

5. At his time with the forest department of Haryana, Chaturvedi accused MLA Prahlad Singh Gillakhera and his relatives of buying rare trees for their gardens from taxpayers' money.

6. Sanjeev Chaturvedi was named in the case where another Haryana forest range officer Sanjeev Tomar was found dead in 2009 after anti-corruption charges were initiated against him. But later, an SIT investigation gave Chaturvedi a clean chit.

7. Currently the Deputy Director ​at AIIMS, Chaturvedi served as the Chief Vigilance Officer (CVO) at AIIMS for the period of 2012-14​ where he unearthed various irregularities and initiated actions in around 200 cases. However, he was removed from the post of CVO by former Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan.

8. New Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal had requested the Centre to appoint Chaturvedi as the chief of anti-corruption bureau and later to be posted to his office as Officer on Special Duty.   

9. The beleaguered officer is currently locked in a struggle with the Centre, which has delayed approval of his transfer since he first filed for it on July 25, 2014. He alleges he has been “continuously targeted” ever since he exposed corruption in the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, in which “powerful politicians and bureaucrats” were involved.

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