Mayank Gandhi
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Mayank Gandhi | |
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| Personal details | |
| Born | 7 November 1958 Mumbai |
| Spouse | Minal Gandhi |
| Children | 2 |
| Education | B.Sc, Management |
| Occupation | Founder & Managing Trustee at Global Vikas Trust |
Mayank Gandhi is a social activist from India. He was previously a member of core committee in the India Against Corruption movement and a National Executive Member of the Aam Aadmi Party(AAP). Presently he is the chief trustee and founder of the non-governmental organization Global Vikas Trust,[1] which aims at transforming the drought-hit villages of Marathwada, Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh, by aiming to increase the minimum income of India's farmers from the average of ₹10,000 to over ₹1 lakh per acre per annum.
Professional career
Mayank was earlier an urban planner and used to engage with governments on inner city development in various developed and developing countries. He was part of the team that worked for preparing a law and process to remake Mumbai using cluster development model. The Chicago-based Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, the largest not-for-profit body of planners and architects in the world appointed him as part of their advisory council.
Anti-Corruption activism
He got involved in activism since 2003 and was part of the drafting of the Maharashtra right To Information along with Anna Hazare and was instrumental in other major structural reforms in the country. In 2011, he joined the team that launched the India against Corruption movement and was a core committee member in this movement. When the movement morphed into the (Aam Aadmi Party), he was part of the highest body viz. the National Executive. He was instrumental in the landslide victory of the party in 2013 and 2015 Delhi Assembly election. He also served as the party's head in Maharashtra,[2] before his unit was disbanded because of differences with the party chief, Arvind Kejriwal.[3][4] Gandhi accused Kejriwal of deviating from the path of honest politics, and of "using and throwing" party volunteers.[5][6] In 2015, he resigned from the party's National Executive, stating that he had been losing interest in politics.
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