Bhubaneswar: Odisha has won the UN-Habitat’s World Habitat Awards 2023 for Jaga Mission, a 5T initiative of the State.
Jaga mission is the world’s largest land titling and slum upgrading program which aims at empowering the lives of slum dwellers.
“Under the leadership of Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik, the Government of Odisha has set itself the ambitious target of becoming the first slum-free state in India and is leading the Jaga Mission programme to upgrade all of the state’s 2,919 slums,” according to an official statement.
In the last five years of the initiative, 1,75,000 families have been granted land tenure security.
Under the Jaga Mission, 100 percent of households in 2,724 slums have been provided with pipe water connections, and 707 slums transformed fully into Liveable Habitats. “100 percent of households in 666 slums have individual toilets, and 8 cities have become slum-free, the statement added.
Earlier in 2019, Odisha’s Jaga mission had received World Habitat Awards for its success in providing land tenure security to the slum dwellers.