Ravi Gaikwad is an Indian

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and officer in the

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cadre. He is senior member of Road Safety Cell of

formed by

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and chief of RTO, Thane and the

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. He serves as the

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of the

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, a member of International Handball Federation. He is also on the board of Indian Olympic Association and

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and the Chairman of Shant Bharat Surakshit Bharat. He has been reelected as President of Handball Association of Maharashtra for second consecutive term in June 2022.

Early life and education

Ravi Gaikwad was born in

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to Pushpa and Kisanrao Gaikwad. He completed his early education at Little Flower Convent High School and received his Engineering Degree in Electronics and Telecommunications. Gaikwad was a state topper in the merit list of Higher Secondary Certificate Examinations (HSC) in Maharashtra State. He has represented in Under 15, Under 17, and Under 19 categories of Maharashtra and was selected in the

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Camp of Maharashtra. After engineering he joined TATA as a scientist. Gaikwad cleared Civil Services and joined the

. He received two Gold Medals one for being first in

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and also being first in all the branches of Engineering across all Universities in the state of Maharashtra. He has a remarkable feat of having scored 100/100 in two subjects of his final year of Engineering. Ravi has completed his

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(Doctorate in Philosophy) in (

) and

(Doctorate in Philosophy) in

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Road Safety World Series

Ravi Gaikwad is the founder of

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who promotes Road Safety to save Indian lives on Indian Roads.

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plays an important role in Road Safety World Series. Hon. Minister

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has been supporting this series for such a noble cause of road safety. It is a legends Cricket World Cup, an annual event. Every year almost three lakh people die on Indian Roads in road accidents and a million people are handicapped every year.

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is the Brand Ambassador of the series and Mr Sunil Gavaskar is the commissioner of the series. Season 1 commenced at Wankhede stadium in March 2020 and was split in two phases due to covid concluding in March 2021 at Raipur. Ravi Gaikwad is also playing in the India Legends team as a player under the captaincy of

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to promote Road safety. Ravi Gaikwad, the founder of the series got together with

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, Olympic Gold Medallist to promote the noble cause of road safety in this series.

Public safety

Ravi Gaikwad reeceiving award from Uddhav Thackeray

Gaikwad worked as the head regional transport officer of the Andheri RTO. In 2009, he was accused in controversies related to registration of imported bikes. (Ultimately he was exonerated of all charges). Subsequently, he was transferred to

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but he did not join the office there. In 2015, Gaikwad was appointed as the deputy regional transport officer. He also held the office of Borivali

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as the Chief. Currently he is the head of RTO Thane and Konkan. In 2018, Gaikwad organized the 'Horn Not Ok' campaign to increase road safety awareness. The drive was attended by Indian cricketers

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and

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. During the

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, in May 2020, Gaikwad saw action against illegal transport of migrants with them issuing 250 memos to such vehicles.

Shant Bharat Surakshit Bharat

Ravi Gaikwad is the chairman of "Shant Bharat Surakshit Bharat" a philanthropic trust. To fulfill Ravi Gaikwad's Shant Bharat Surakshit Bharat, Road Safety 2024 Initiative is organized by DM Foundation in association with Brahma Kumaris.

US Hall of Fame

Ravi Gaikwad has been inducted in US Hall of fame. The others inducted in Hall of fame Since its inception are several former cricket stars including Sir Donald George Bradman,

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, Abid Sayed Ali,

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, Sunil Gavaskar, Gundappa Viswanath.

Awards and honors

Ravi Gaikwas receiving International Mother Teresa Award from Bhagat Singh Koshyari

* SAKAL AWARD for good governance and as a cricketer in the field of sports * Man of excellence Award 2020 from IndianAchiever's forum * Best Engineer's Award by Engineer's Association of India (EAI) * Nelson Mandela Humanitarian Award for social welfare * The Times Group's third edition of "Global Indians 2022" has 25 additional well-known individuals in addition to Ravi Gaikwad's biography. *

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for the largest

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class conducted to encourage the playing of handball in India. * Road Safety Award from

for spreading awareness and in turn reducing the number of deaths and road accidents in the state. * Guinness book of world record for Road Safety in 2016 * CSR Times Award 2020 for promoting road safety, sports, and social welfare. *In May 2021, Gaikwad has been honoured with INDIA CORONA AWARD by Wockhardt Foundation. In the same year he has also been honoured with COVID FIGHTERS AWARD by

. * Mother Teresa International Award 2022 for Social Justice by Governor of Maharashtra. *Maharashtra Gaurav Puraskar for promotion of Road Safety. *Zee Lifetime Achievement Award in Engineering, Science and Technology *Times Lifetime Achievement Award,Times Brand Icon by Times Group in Sports *CNBC Lifetime Achievement Award in Sports

Personal life

Gaikwad is married with Dr Nirmala who is a practicing physician and they have two children.

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Gaikwad, Ravi Living people People from Pune Year of birth missing (living people) Indian philanthropists Indian civil servants People from Maharashtra