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The prestigious Ramon Magsaysay Award was conferred upon Mr. Arvind Kejriwal in which of the following category?
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- Emergent Leadership
- Literature
- Community Welfare
- Government Service
Correct Option: A
In 2006, Kejriwal was awarded the Ramon Magsaysay Award for Emergent Leadership recognizing his involvement in a grassroots movement Parivartan using right-to-information legislation in a campaign against corruption. The same year, after resigning from the IRS, he donated his Magsaysay award money as a corpus fund to found the Public Cause Research Foundation, a non-governmental organization(NGO).