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- Social worker G.N.
- Gopikrishna has passed away at the age of 75 in Lakshmeshwar town in Gadag district.
- Gopikrishna earlier worked as the head of Oxfam India and served on the board of Fab India Khadi.
- Gopikrishna set up the Mitan organisation near Mekalmaradi, a rural skills training centre in Kadoli, and a handicraft production and marketing centre near Devarayanadurga.
- Gopikrishna fought Prada after the European company began using the design of Kolhapuri chappals made in Athani without permission, and Prada engineers then came to Athani to train local workers.
- Gopikrishna's death ends a career of rural development work and artisan advocacy, and the last rites were held at Muktidhama in Lakshmeshwar.
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