National Panchayat Awards

11.12.2024

National Panchayat Awards

Why in the news?     

             The National Panchayat Awards Conferment Ceremony 2024, organized by the Ministry of Panchayati Raj, will take place at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi.

About National Panchayat Awards:

• These awards are pivotal in recognizing and encouraging Panchayats for their efforts in poverty alleviation, health, child welfare, water conservation, sanitation, infrastructure, social justice, governance, and women empowerment.
• These awards have been revamped and launched during the year 2022 aligning them with 9 Localization of Sustainable Development Goals (LSDGs) themes aggregating 17 SDGs.
• Primary objective through this competition is to assess the performance of Panchayats in attainment of SDGs, promote competitive spirit among them and catalyze the process of LSDGs through Panchayati Raj Institutions for attaining LSDGs by 2030.
• These 9 LSDG themes are: Poverty-Free and Enhanced Livelihoods Panchayat, Healthy Panchayat, Child-Friendly Panchayat, Water-Sufficient Panchayat, Clean and Green Panchayat, Self-Sufficient Infrastructure in Panchayat, Socially Just and Socially Secured Panchayat, Panchayat with Good Governance and Women-Friendly Panchayat.
• This award has been conferred under the following categories:

○Deen Dayal Upadhyay Panchayat Satat Vikas Puraskar (DDU PSVP): This award is for top-3 ranking GPs/Equivalent bodies for their outstanding performance under each of the above mentioned 9 award themes.

○Nanaji Deshmukh Sarvottam Panchayat Satat Vikas Puraskar: This award is for top 3 Gram, Block and District Panchayats each for their aggregate performance under all the 9 award themes of DDU PSVP.

Special categories of Awards:

○Gram Urja Swaraj Vishesh Panchayat Puraskar is for top 3 GPs/Equivalent Bodies for their performance in adoption and usage of renewable sources of energy.

○Carbon Neutral Vishesh Panchayat Puraskar is for top 3 GPs/Equivalent Bodies for their performance in adoption and usage of renewable sources of energy. This year, a total of 3 awards have been conferred under this category.

○Panchayat Kshamta Nirmaan Sarvottam Sansthan Puraskar is for 3 Institutions across the country who have provided institutional support to GPs in achieving LSDGs.

                                                                         Source: PIB

Consider the following statements regarding National Panchayat Award:

1. It recognizes and encourages Panchayats for their efforts in poverty alleviation.

2. Under this, Gram Urja Swaraj Vishesh Panchayat Puraskar is awarded to Panchayats for their performance in adoption and usage of renewable sources of energy.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

A.1 only

B.2 only

C.Both 1 and 2

D.Neither 1 nor 2

Answer C