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AWARDS AND HONOURS - July 2019

Jul 2019

Dec 28, 2019

UNICEF-2019 Award for Swachh Bharat Implementation

Kamareddy district of Telangana secured the United Nations International Children's and Education Fund (Unicef)-2019 Award. The district won the award for the effective implementation of Swachh Bharat Mission in water sanitation.
Kamareddy district was on top in the country among other districts in construction of individual sanitary lavatories, swachh darpan wall paintings, swachh survekshan, swachh sundar shouchalay and many other activities.

Dr. Santosh G. Honavar conferred with the AAO

Dr. Santosh G. Honavar, India's ophthalmologist was conferred with the American Academy of Ophthalmology's (AAO) highest award Life Achievement honour. He is the first Indian chosen for the honour. The award was presented to Dr. Honavar at the annual meeting held in San Francisco.
American Academy of Ophthalmology is the world's largest association of eye specialists. The mission of the American Academy of Ophthalmology is to protect sight and empower lives by serving as an advocate for patients. It is founded in 1896 and headquartered in San Francisco, USA, American Academy of Ophthalmology have 32,000 professional members.

Dec 27, 2019

Tamil Nadu Tops Good Governance Index Among Big States.

The southern state of Tamil Nadu bagged the top position in the composite ranking for good governance index (GGI), followed by Maharashtra and Karnataka, according to data provided by the Personnel Ministry.
Chhattisgarh has got the fourth position, followed by Andhra Pradesh (fifth), Gujarat (sixth), Haryana (seventh) and Kerala at the eight rank.
Madhya Pradesh is at the ninth rank, West Bengal at the tenth position, followed by Telangana (11th), Rajasthan (12th), Punjab (13th), Orissa (14th), Bihar (15th), Goa (16th), Uttar Pradesh (17th) and Jharkhand at eighteen position in the big states category.
The states and union territories have been divided into three groups -- big states, north-east and hill states, and union territories -- for the rankings based on certain indicators separately.
In the north-east and hill category, Himachal Pradesh topped the ranking followed by Uttarakhand, Tripura, Mizoram, Sikkim, Assam, Jammu and Kashmir (now divided into two union territories of Jammu and Kashmir, and Ladakh), Manipur, Meghalaya, Nagaland and Arunachal Pradesh.
Among the union territories, Pondicherry got the first position, followed by Chandigarh, Delhi, Daman and Diu, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Lakshadweep.

Dec 24, 2019

Army Design Bureau Excellence Award

Major Anoop Mishra was awarded Army Design Bureau Excellence Award by the Army Chief for indigenously developing Sarvatra bulletproof jacket. The jacket made by Anoop Mishra can provide protection from sniper rifle bullets. The project was launched after there was an increase in the number of sniper incidents in the lines on Line of Control (LoC) and Kashmir valley.
Earlier in October, the Indian Army was supplied 40,000 indigenous bulletproof jackets for its troops carrying out anti-terror operations in the Kashmir valley. These bulletproof jackets can withstand hardcore steel ammunition fired from an AK-47 rifle.

Tamil Isai Sangam Honours Musicians

Violin maestro A. Kanniyakumari was conferred the title 'Isai Peraringnar' and musician A. Balasubramaniya Odhuvar the 'Pann Isai Peraringar' award at the annual Tamil Isai Festival organised by Tamil Isai Sangam.
President of Tamil Isai Sangam P. R. Gokulakrishnan and honorary secretary of the Sangam A.C. Muthiah were present on the occasion.

Dec 21, 2019

Gully Boy Out of Oscar Race

Zoya Akhtar's 'Gully Boy' crashed out of the Best International Feature Film race at the Oscars after the Academy unveiled shortlists for nine categories.
The movie failed to make the cut in the top-10 movies that will advance to the next round of voting at the 92nd Academy Awards.
With Gully Boy out of the race, India's dry run at the Academy Awards continues as the country has never made it to the top five, except three occasions.
The last Indian film that made it to the final five was Ashutosh Gowariker's 'Lagaan' in 2001.
'Mother India' (1958) and 'Salaam Bombay' (1989) are the other two Indian movies to have made it to the top five.

Dec 20, 2019

J&K Received National Award for Implementing PMGSY

Jammu and Kashmir was selected by the Union Ministry of Rural Development for the national award in the best performing category for implementing the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY) and was presented the award in a ceremony at the National Agricultural Science Complex, Pusa, New Delhi.
The Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY), was launched by the Govt. of India to provide connectivity to unconnected habitations as part of a poverty reduction strategy.
Under PMGSY II, the Union Ministry of Rural Development has sanctioned 147 Roads and Bridges projects covering a length of 783.88 kilometres at an estimated cost of Rs.878.53 crore in favour of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh. Out of 147 sanctioned projects 13 having length of 79 km are for UT Ladakh and 134 projects having length of 704.88 km for UT of J&K.
This entire road length has been sanctioned for up-gradation of existing road infrastructure with 10-year maintenance.

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