Nedumangad won the 2019 Deen Dayal Upadhyay Panchayat Sashaktikaran Puraskar award:
Kerala`s Nedumangad block panchayat won the prestigious Deen Dayal Upadhyay Panchayat Sashaktikaran Puraskar for 2019. A total of nine awards were given to Kerala civic bodies, including Kolazhy of Thrissur district, Tirunavaya, and Maranchery of Malappuram, Srikrishnapuram of Palakkad, Sasthankotta of Kollam and Pappinisseri of Kannur. The award recognized the good work provided by the panchayats at different levels, including the delivery of services and sanitation.
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The awards were presented by Narendra Singh Tomar, the Union Minister of Rural Development, to the representatives of the panchayat in Thiruvananthapuram district at the national panchayat awards function on 23 October.
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Various categories of the award include toilets construction, Open-defecation free (ODF) program implementation, sanitation, waste management, innovation in revenue generation, implementation of schemes relating to agriculture, health and women and child development, and e-governance.