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This year, winners were: Lavanam , a 79-year-old social activist from Andhra Pradesh; Ayyappa Masagi, a mechanical engineer from Karnataka who quit a job at L&T to take up water literacy work in villages; Dr Jaya Arunachalam, a 1987 Padmashree awardee from Tamil Nadu, who has been working to develop human resource potential of poor women workers in the informal sector in urban and rural areas and Father Charles Peter Dougherty, a Catholic priest from US, who has travelled across the world and undertaken Satyagraha protesting against violence.
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