UoH to present Honorary Doctorate to Smt. Aruna Roy

Hyderabad, Jan 6 : Smt. Aruna Roy, well-known Social Activist will be awarded the Honorary Doctorate on Thursday January 9, 2014 at the University of Hyderabad (UoH). The ceremony will be held in the DST Auditorium of the UoH campus at 3:30 pm. Smt. Roy will later deliver a Distinguished Lecture on Democratic Governance – A Contemporary Discourse.

Smt. Aruna Roy, born on 26 June 1946 founded and heads the Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathana (“Workers and Peasants Strength Union”). She is best known as a prominent leader of the Right to Information movement through National Campaign for People’s Right to Information, which led to the enactment of the Right to Information Act in 2005. She has also remained a member of the National Advisory Council.

Arunaji served as a civil servant in the Indian Administrative Service between 1968 and 1974. She resigned the job to devote her time to social and political campaigns. She joined the Social Work and Research Center (SWRC) in Tilonia, Rajasthan.

In 2000, she received the Ramon Magsaysay Award for Community Leadership and in 2010 she received the prestigious Lal Bahadur Shastri National Award for Excellence in Public Administration, Academia and Management. INN