# M. C. Mehta

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Indian public interest attorney

Mahesh Chandra Mehta Occupation Public interest attorney Awards Goldman Environmental Prize (1996) Ramon Magsaysay Award (1997) Padma Shri (2016)

**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](/source/Taj_Trapezium_Case). He was awarded the [Goldman Environmental Prize](/source/Goldman_Environmental_Prize) in 1996 for his continuous fights in Indian courts against pollution-causing industries.[1]

He received the [Ramon Magsaysay Award](/source/Ramon_Magsaysay_Award) for Asia for Public Service in 1997. The Government of India awarded him the civilian honour of the [Padma Shri](/source/Padma_Shri) in 2016.[2] He is a trustee of [People for Animals](/source/People_for_Animals).[3]

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-goldman_1-0)** Goldman Environmental Prize: [M.C. Mehta](http://www.goldmanprize.org/node/133) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20071204052247/http://www.goldmanprize.org/node/133) 4 December 2007 at the [Wayback Machine](/source/Wayback_Machine) (Retrieved on 28 November 2007)

1. **[^](#cite_ref-Padma_Awards_2016_2-0)** ["Padma Awards 2016"](http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=135783). Press Information Bureau, Government of India. 2016. Retrieved 2 February 2016.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** ["PEOPLE FOR ANIMALS"](https://web.archive.org/web/20180909091847/http://www.peopleforanimalsindia.org:80/trustees.php). *peopleforanimalsindia.org*. Archived from [the original](https://www.peopleforanimalsindia.org/trustees.php) on 9 September 2018. Retrieved 28 April 2018.

v t e Ramon Magsaysay Award winners of India Amitabha Chowdhury Anshu Gupta Aruna Roy Arun Shourie Arvind Kejriwal Baba Amte Banoo Jehangir Coyaji Bezwada Wilson Bharat Vatwani B. G. Verghese Chandi Prasad Bhatt C. D. Deshmukh Dara Nusserwanji Khurody Deep Joshi Ela Bhatt Gour Kishore Ghosh Harish Hande Jockin Arputham James Michael Lyngdoh Jayaprakash Narayan Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay Kiran Bedi Kulandei Francis K. V. Subbanna Lakshmi Chand Jain Laxminarayan Ramdas Mabelle Arole Mahasweta Devi Mahesh Chandra Mehta Manibhai Desai Mandakini Amte Mother Teresa M. S. Subbulakshmi M. S. Swaminathan Nileema Mishra Palagummi Sainath Pandurang Shastri Athavale Prakash Amte P. K. Sethi Rajendra Singh Ravi Shankar Ravish Kumar R. K. Laxman Rajanikant Arole Sanjiv Chaturvedi Satyajit Ray Sombhu Mitra Sandeep Pandey Shantha Sinha Sonam Wangchuk T. M. Krishna T. N. Seshan Tribhuvandas Kishibhai Patel V. Shanta Verghese Kurien Vinoba Bhave List of Ramon Magsaysay Award winners

v t e Recipients of Padma Shri in Public Affairs 1950s Asha Devi Aryanayakam (1954) Perin Captain (1954) Amalprava Das (1954) Achamma Mathai (1954) Machani Somappa (1954) Ralengnao Khathing (1957) Moturi Satyanarayana (1958) 1960s Rustomji Marwanji Alpaiwala (1960) Kashi Prasad Pandey (1067) Lal Chand Verman (1067) 1970s Ramanath Iyer Mathrubbotham (1971) G. S. Melkote (1972) Jothi Venkatachalam (1974) Telo Mascarenhas (1977) 1980s Valmiki Choudhary (1988) 1990s Babulal Patodi (1991) Hari Govindrao Vartak (1991) Maadari Bhagya Gautam (1992) Vaman Balkrishna Naique Sardesai (1992) Homi J. H. Taleyarkhan (1992) 2000s Satya Narayan Gourisaria (2000) Enuga Sreenivasulu Reddy (2000) Mohan Ranade (2001) Viresh Pratap Chaudhry (2002) Taro Nakayama (2002) Phillips Talbot (2002) N. R. Madhava Menon (2003) Flora MacDonald (2004) Indira Jaising (2005) Syeda Saiyidain Hameed (2007) Teesta Setalvad (2007) Colette Mathur (2008) Shyamala Pappu (2009) K. Asungba Sangtam (2009) 2010s Rafael Iruzubieta Fernandez (2010) Upendra Baxi (2011) Anant Darshan Shankar (2011) Y. H. Malegam (2012) Pravin H. Parekh (2012) Ashok Kumar Mago (2014) M. N. Krishnamani (2016) Mahesh Chandra Mehta (2016) Ujjwal Nikam (2016) Tokheho Sema (2016) Tommy Koh (2018) Hun Many (2018) Thant Myint-U (2018) Bhabani Charan Pattanayak (2018) Bhagirathi Devi (2019) 2020s Bob Blackman (2020) Barry Gardiner (2020) Bijoya Chakravarty (2021) Quazi Sazzad Ali Zahir (2021) Malji Bhai Desai (2022) N. C. Debbarma (Posthumous) (2023) Thounaojam Chaoba Singh (2023) Sasindran Muthuvel (2024) C S Vaidyanathan (2025) Manda Krishna Madiga (2025) Bhulai Bhai (Posthumous) (2025) Kabindra Purkayastha (2026)

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