Thank you, India! Satyarthi gifts Nobel medal to Rashtrapati Bhavan

January 07, 2015 15:30

Nobel laureate Kailash Satyarthi dedicated his Nobel Peace prize to the nation by presenting his medallion to President Pranab Mukherjee.

Satyarthi called on Mukherjee at the Rashtrapati Bhavan and handed over the gold-plated medal.

President Mukherjee welcomed the gesture and said the Nobel medal will be kept on display at the Rashtrapati Bhavan Museum for the public to view.

Satyarthi, whose NGO Bachpan Bachao Andolan (Save Childhood Movement) prides itself on liberating over 80,000 children from bonded labour in factories and workshops across India had expressed his desire to offer the medal to the country and not keep it with him.

The child rights activist had received the Nobel along with Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai on December 10 in Oslo.

And while on the Prez, take a virtual tour of his house right here.

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