Meenangadi grama panchayat president Okay.E. Vinayan receiving the distinguished Carbon Neutral Vishesh Panchayat Puraskar from President Droupadi Murmu in New Delhi on Monday.
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Meenangadi grama panchayat on Monday bagged the distinguished Carbon Neutral Vishesh Panchayat Puraskar from President Droupadi Murmu in New Delhi on Monday.
The first such award instituted by Ministry of Panchayati Raj contains an award, a quotation and sum of ₹1 crore.
While the Meenangadi grama panchayat got here first within the nation, Bagmara grama panchayat in Tripura and Patoda in Maharashtra bagged the second and third positions respectively.
Various modern tasks executed by the grama panchayat, comparable to tree banking, planting of practically 3.5 lakh tree saplings and their conservation with the help of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee scheme (MGNREGS) staff, ‘Haritam Sundaram’, a waste administration programme, and local weather literary programmes launched over the past seven years to make the civic physique carbon impartial led to the popularity.
Grama panchayat president Okay.E. Vinayan, secretary A.M. Binesh and Local administrative Joint director Jostna Mol obtained the award from Ms. Murmu .
