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'''Mahesh Chandra Mehta''' is a public interest attorney from [[India]]. He single-handedly won numerous landmark judgments from India’s Supreme Court since 1984, including introducing lead-free gasoline to India and reducing the industrial pollution fouling the Ganga and eroding the Taj Mahal. He was awarded the [[Goldman Environmental Prize]] in 1996<ref name="goldman">Goldman Environmental Prize: [http://www.goldmanprize.org/node/133 M.C. Mehta] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071204052247/http://www.goldmanprize.org/node/133 |date=4 December 2007 }} (Retrieved on 28 November 2007)</ref> for his continuous fights in Indian courts against pollution-causing industries.<br />
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He received the [[Ramon Magsaysay Award]] for Asia for Public Service in 1997. The Government of India awarded him the civilian honour of the [[Padma Shri]] in 2016.<ref name="Padma Awards 2016">{{cite web | url=http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=135783 | title=Padma Awards 2016 | publisher=Press Information Bureau, Government of India | date=2016 | accessdate=February 2, 2016}}</ref> He is a trustee of [[People for Animals]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.peopleforanimalsindia.org/trustees.php|title=PEOPLE FOR ANIMALS|website=www.peopleforanimalsindia.org|language=en|access-date=2018-04-28}}</ref><br />
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