Dr. Shivajirao Ganesh Patwardhan, who devoted his entire life for the
upliftment of leprosy patients, was born on 28 December 1892 in a
small village Assangi of Jamkhandi District in karnataka. Gandhi
memorial Leprosy Foundation, a pioneering organisation established in
1951 in the field of leprosy in India, institued the award titled
“International Gandhi Award” in 1986
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