Hemant Goswami

Quick Facts

Full Name	Hemant Goswami
Occupation	Civil Rights Leader
Date Of Birth	Jun 30, 1971(1971-06-30)
Age	53
Birthplace	Delhi
Country	India
Horoscope	Gemini

Hemant Goswami Biography

Hemant Goswami is one of the most popular and richest Civil Rights Leader who was born on June 30, 1971 in Delhi, India. Social activist, who is an advocate for civil rights and public health in India and against tobacco use.

His complaints about smoking led to the prosecution of His complaints about tobacco led to prosecution and fines for Bollywood stars such as Salman Khan. and the imposition of fines.

Hemant Goswami (born 1971) is an Indian social activist working on social issues like public health, environmental activism, child rights, child labour and many other civil right issues. He is also well known as a voice against tobacco. He is credited with creating the first smoke-free city in any Third World country with the effective use of the Right to Information Act. He was awarded the “Global Smoke-Free Partnership Award” in 2008 and also THE “Extraordinary Activist Award” for the innovative use of legal action and activism resulting in the smoke-free Chandigarh initiative. Hemant Goswami is the great-grandson of Swami Rama Tirtha the 19th-century spiritual leader and social reformer. Hemant is the founder of many NGO’s including Burning Brain Society, Tobacco Free India Coalition and Citizens’ Voice which were till recently managed by him from Chandigarh. Hemant has also been closely associated with Servants of the People Society too and till 2013 also worked as the Chief Executive officer (CEO) of The Samaja, one of the largest-selling Oriya daily newspaper founded by Gopabandhu Das in 1919.

The order is considered a landmark in “Child Rights,” as the court declared many existing provisions of the 1986 child labour legislation as illegal and against the Constitution of India.

His parents raised him in southeast India.

Hemant Goswami Net Worth

Hemant Goswami is one of the richest Civil Rights Leader from India. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Hemant Goswami 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He was a management, marketing, and IT consultant.

In order to stop corruption in India, he worked to ensure accountability in the public service.

Hemant Goswami was born in Delhi on 30 June 1971 to an Indian Air Force officer and a teacher. With initial formal education in electronic sciences, Hemant subsequently moved to management. He holds multiple post-graduation qualifications in diverse streams, including; Business Management, Journalism and Mass Communication, Health Sociology, Intellectual Property Laws, Information Technology and Industrial Psychology. Though Hemant started his career as a marketing professional but later-on got professionally engaged as an IT professional, management consultant and a trainer. After working for a few years on the board of directors of many companies/organisations, Hemant left his other professional assignments in 2001 to work full-time as a social activist with major focus on fighting corruption, judicial reforms and ensuring transparency. He strongly believes that problems and anomalies in these areas of governance is the main reason for the abuse of civil rights of the people. Tobacco control and countering substance abuse are another major areas of his work in public health. During his college days (in the early 1990s), he founded the Society for Prevention of Crime and Corruption, an NGO to work on corruption issues. In 2001, he founded the Burning Brain Society and in 2004 formed Citizens’ Voice. A documentary film entitled Change Catalyst was released in 2011 to document the work done by Hemant Goswami in creating Chandigarh as India’s first smoke-free city.

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The method followed for appointment of Judges in the hgher judiciary in India has been openly criticised by Hemant, who consider it to be a source of corruption and inefficiency in the higher judiciary. Hemant has also been raising his voice against the unethical conduct of lawyers. In March 2013, lawyers in Chandigarh clashed with some police officials. The High Court decided to take suo-motu notice of the incidence with an objective to absolve the lawyers of any criminal action against them. Hemant opposed the action of the High Court and filed an intervention in the court opposing the quashing of the First Information Report, asserting that law does not bestow special privileges on advocates and that equality before law should prevail. Criticising the action of the High Court, Hemant wrote to the High Court that collective might and power of a group of people who are collectively registered as a separate juristic person should not be allowed to browbeat the system by putting extraneous pressure and by forceful imposition of their collective bargaining power. The issue was further escalated by Hemant taking the matter to public domain wherein he raised questions about neutrality of the High Court in the whole episode.

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Hemant Ranked on the list of most popular Civil Rights Leader. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in India. Hemant Goswami celebrates birthday on June 30 of every year.

Hemant’s fight against tobacco has continued since his school days. Continuing his strong actions against tobacco has produced encouraging results. Remarkable among the results is churning the city-state of Chandigarh as the first city-state in the emerging world to be smoke-free. The success of smoke- free Chandigarh has been made into a documentary film entitled Change Catalyst – Creating Smoke-Free Cities. The innovative strategies used by Hemant and the success story of ‘Smoke-Free Chandigarh’ has also been used by WHO to develop an international best practice guidebook on making cities smokefree. Hemant was also the lead author and investigator of the WHO and Ministry of Health (India) research study on ‘Tobacco in Movies and its Impact on Youngsters.’ This study by Hemant Goswami is used by the Government of India to justify the 2005 enacted delegated legislation prohibiting the use of tobacco in movies. Fighting numerous legal battles on tobacco control has also produced good results for Hemant. Such legal initiative includes; filing of hundreds of complaint cases against street vending of tobacco, legal action against the Government for inaction on ‘Steering Committee’ formed to take care of tobacco advertisements, and even challenging one of the major tobacco companies in India to force them to discontinue the use of trade-name of their cigarette brand from (surrogate) promotion activities by wrongly associating it with bravery awards. Bollywood stars like Sanjay Dutt, Salman Khan and Ajay Devgan have also suffered the wrath of Goswami for smoking in public-places and had to face prosecution and fine on the complaints of Goswami. Besides regular monitoring and reporting about the violations of law by the tobacco industry, Hemant has also exposed the nexus between the tobacco corporates and political parties. He exposed and proved about tobacco company donations to almost each and every political party in the parliament of India. The expose made the political parties sensitive to the issue and resulted in discontinuation of overt funding by the tobacco industry to political parties. Legal fight against the illegal Hookah/Shisha Bars has resulted in closure of illegal tobacco and nicotine supply in the northern region of India. Hemant also sat on a sit-in hunger protest outside the White House, USA in May 2007 against non-ratification of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) by the US government. Hemant has created an absolutely new style of result-oriented 360-degree activism on tobacco control which has been recognised globally.