New Delhi: In yet another recognition, Odisha bagged two prestigious National awards at the Second Edition of the Janaagraha City Governance Awards announced today at a virtual award ceremony by Centre.
The Housing and Urban Development (H&UDD) won the Best State Award for JAGA Mission for enactment of laws, drafting of policies, setting up of institutional mechanisms, programmes or schemes to successfully foster urban decentralization in the cities and State.
The JAGA Mission was selected on basis of the historic Odisha Land Rights to Slum Dwellers Act, 2017 and for transforming urban slums into liveable habitats with intensive community mobilisation and empowering slum dwellers through Slum Development Associations (SDAs).
Similarly, the Public Health Engineering Organisation (PHEO), H&UDD won the Best Civic Agency Award for universal access to piped water supply through demonstrable inter-agency coordination and decentralization in practice.
G Mathi Vathanan, Principal Secretary H&UD received the awards.
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