Arbind Singh is an India

India

India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

n social activist. He founded Nidan, a non profit organisation for informal labor. It operates in Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan

Rajasthan

Rājasthān the land of Rajasthanis, , is the largest state of the Republic of India by area. It is located in the northwest of India. It encompasses most of the area of the large, inhospitable Great Indian Desert , which has an edge paralleling the Sutlej-Indus river valley along its border with...

. He greatly improved the bargaining power of the street vendors with the state governments.

Early life

Arbind Singh was born in Muzzafarpur in Bihar. He spent his early years in Katihar, a district in North-east Bihar, which is a hub of first generation migrants. He is also a co-ordinator of the National Association of Street Vendors of India in Patna. In the 1990s, he got his degrees in sociology and law from the Delhi University.

Awards

• Bihar Innovation Forum Award - Bihar State Government
• Social Entrepreneur of the year, India 2008 - Khemka Foundation

External links

• Profile on Khemka Foundation