Arbind Singh, 5, is a mission driven informal workers’ rights activist and social entreprenuer. He works with informal sector workers and their children. As national coordinator of the National Association of Street Vendors of India (NASVI) and founder of Nidan . He has engaged ,struggled and confronted with government authorities at various levels to protect and promote rights of street vendors and other sections of informal workers.Besides being a motivator and leader, he is also regarded as a dynamic social entrepreneur. He has promoted community owned financial entities of informal workers, such as thrift and credit cooperatives of street vendors, domestic workers and artisans, in several districts in Bihar and Delhi. He was elected as Ashoka and Eishenhower Fellow in 2007, He was awarded Social Entrepreneur of the Year 2008 by Schwab Foundation and in 2012 by the Skoll Foundation . He co-founded Self Workers Global (SWG)to take up issues of informal workers across continents
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