Ratan Tata Expresses Happiness over Odisha Govt Winning World Habitat Award for Jaga Mission

New Delhi: Tata Trusts Chairman Ratan N Tata has expressed his happiness over the Odisha Government winning the prestigious World Habitat Award for the Jaga Mission, a slum land titling project benefiting a million urban-poor living in the slums.

“It makes me so happy that the Government of Odisha was awarded with the World Habitat Award for the Jaga mission with the Tata Trusts and the Norman Foster Foundation for giving slum dwellers land rights and livable habitat”, Ratan Tata tweeted.

It makes me so happy that the Government of Odisha was awarded with the World Habitat Award for the Jaga mission with the Tata Trusts and the Norman Foster Foundation for giving slum dwellers land rights and livable habitat. We are only as strong as the communities we empower. pic.twitter.com/nNZ8xJQsXP

— Ratan N. Tata (@RNTata2000) December 10, 2019

“We are only as strong as the communities we empower”, he said.

The Tata Trusts Chairman had congratulated Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik and his team for the award.

The World Habitat Award is a recognition for the vision and commitment of the Government of Odisha to improve the lives of the urban poor. The Tata Trusts are privileged to partner with the Government of Odisha in this noble initiative, Ratan Tata said.

The Odisha Government has won the World Habitat Award, a global recognition, for its ambitious initiative, Jaga Mission under which 52,682 urban poor families living in the slums have been granted land rights certificate.

This award is given by World Habitat, a UK-based organisation, in partnership with UN-Habitat, every year, in recognition of innovative, outstanding, and revolutionary ideas, projects, and programmes from across the world.

Jaga Mission is acclaimed as the World’s largest slum land titling project, benefiting a million urban poor living in the slums, with promises to provide self-respect and freedom from the perpetual fear of eviction.

The Mission is being implemented in collaboration with Tata Trusts and Norman Foster Foundation.

Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik had launched the project in May last year, a first of its kind in the country, to give land titles to slum dwellers.