Rajendra Singh

Rajendra Singh at [[Palakkad]] in April 2017 Rajendra Singh (born 6 August 1959) is an Indian water conservationist and environmentalist from Alwar district, Rajasthan in India. Also known as "waterman of India", he won the Magsaysay Award in 2001 and Stockholm Water Prize in 2015. He runs an NGO called 'Tarun Bharat Sangh' (TBS), which was founded in 1975. The NGO based in village hori-Bhikampura in Thanagazi tehsil, near Sariska Tiger Reserve, has been instrumental in fighting the slow bureaucracy, mining lobby and has helped villagers take charge of water management in their semi-arid area as it lies close to Thar Desert, through the use of johad, rainwater storage tanks, check dams and other time-tested as well as path-breaking techniques. Starting from a single village in 1985, over the years TBS helped build over 8,600 johads and other water conservation structures to collect rainwater for the dry seasons, has brought water back to over 1,000 villages and revived five rivers in Rajasthan, Arvari, Ruparel, Sarsa, Bhagani and Jahajwali. He is one of the members of the National Ganga River Basin Authority (NGRBA) which was set up in 2009, by the Government of India as an empowered planning, financing, monitoring and coordinating authority for the Ganges (Ganga), in exercise of the powers conferred under the Environment (Protection) Act, 1986. Provided by Wikipedia
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Pharmacokinetics, safety, tolerability, and antiviral activity of dolutegravir dispersible tablets in infants and children with HIV-1 (IMPAACT P1093): results of an open-label, phase 1–2 trial
by Theodore D. Ruel, Edward P. Acosta, Jessica P. Liu, Kathryn P. Gray, Kathleen George, Nicole Montañez, Stephanie Popson, Ann M. Buchanan, Mattie Bartlett, Dale Dayton, Patricia Anthony, Cynthia Brothers, Cynthia Vavro, Rajendra Singh, Lucy Koech, Tichaona Vhembo, Blandina T. Mmbaga, Jorge A. Pinto, Els F.M. Dobbels, Moherndran Archary, Kulkanya Chokephaibulkit, Pradthana Ounchanum, Jaime G. Deville, Rohan Hazra, Ellen Townley, Andrew Wiznia, Michele F. Carter, Hannah Mansky, Flavia F. Ferreira, Juliana Romeiro, Jessica D'Angelo, Ruth Williams, Fernanda Jundi, Maria Letícia Santos Cruz, Claude Leon Sidi, Hajira Kataike, Maxensia Owor, Grace Miriam Ahimbisibwe, Ms Anita Janse van Rensburg, Catherine V. Andrea, Ponego L. Ponatshego, Marian Budu, Lesedi Tirelo, Gaerolwe R. Masheto, Mpho S. Raesi, Moakanyi Ramogodiri, Jiraporn Chanthong, Chintana Khamrong, Linda Aurpibul, Lee Fairlie, Faeezah Patel, Hamisha Soma-Kashiram, Sherika Hanley, Vani Govender, Fernanda Tomé Sturzbecher, Maria Célia Cervi, Boniface Njau, Petronilla Matibe, Ruvimbo Mukonowenzou, Catherine C. Marozva, Winnie C. Keter, Priscilla C. Bii, Tim R. Cressey, Pra ornsuda Sukrakanchana, Supattra Rungmaitree, Jose Henrique Pilotto, Luis Eduardo Fernandes, Ivete Martins Gomes
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