Nikhil Dey (born 1963) is an Indian

social activist Activism consists of efforts to promote, impede, direct or intervene in social, political, economic or environmental reform with the desire to make Social change, changes in society toward a perceived common good. Forms of activism range from ...

. He works for the

Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan The Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan (Association for the Empowerment of Labourers and Farmers) is an Indian political organisation best known for its demand for the Right to Information Act (RTI) which grew out of the demand for minimum wages f ...

, Suchna Evum Rozgar Adhikar Abhiyan and NCPRI (National Campaign for People's Right to Information). He has worked for Right to Information,

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Lokpal A Lokpal ( ''lokapāla'', "defender of people" or "People's Friend") is an anti-corruption authority or body of ombudsman who represents the public interest in the Republic of India. The current Chairperson of Lokpal is Ajay Manikrao Khanwilkar. ...

bill and

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and other Human Rights organisations.

Early activities

After working briefly with the Kheduth Mazdoor Chetna Sangathana in

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, he joined

Aruna Roy Aruna Roy (née Jayaram, born 26 may 1946) is an Indian social activist, professor, union organiser and retired IAS officer. She was the president of the National Federation of Indian Women and founder of the Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan. ...

and Shankar Singh in 1987 to go to Devdungri, in Rajsamand District in Rajasthan where along with many others they helped form and establish the

(MKSS).

Social activist

Since 1990, he has been a full-time worker for the MKSS, and a part of the organisation's decision making collective. In this capacity he has been involved in struggles of the poor for justice, including grass root struggles for land and the payment of

minimum wage A minimum wage is the lowest remuneration that employers can legally pay their employees—the price floor below which employees may not sell their labor. List of countries by minimum wage, Most countries had introduced minimum wage legislation b ...

s. He has also been a part of the organisation's involvement in larger campaigns: the People's Right to Information, and the

Right to Work The right to work is the concept that people have a human right to work, or to engage in productive employment, and should not be prevented from doing so. The right to work, enshrined in the United Nations 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Ri ...

, the

, and the protection of other human rights guaranteed under the Indian

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. He was called in the television programme Satyamev Jayate to clarify the Right to Information along with Shankar Sing, Sowmya Kidambi and

. Nikhil Dey also worked with the Government of Rajasthan on its Jana Soochana programme, which aimed to implement the 'proactive disclosure' section of the Right to Information Act, by which the government would publish information about its work proactively and obviate any need to file RTI requests.

References

External links

The Right To No Secrets

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