Categories

Innovative Education

Nominations for this award will cover areas of innovation introduced for improving primary education, adaptations during COVID19 and special programs for adult education and strengthening of infrastructure in schools and colleges.

Healthcare

Nominations for this award will cover areas of COVID healthcare management, other health initiative management (polio cases, hepatitis, malnourishment, infant mortality rate, etc.) during the Covid pandemic, augmenting requisite infrastructure and holding awareness campaigns for public health.

Swachhata

Nominations for this award will cover areas of improving the sanitation of the district through contributions to ODF drives, solid waste management, waste collection processes, C&D waste management, improve the living conditions of the ragpickers, waste worker livelihood, preventing ocean bound plastic, etc.

Gender & Inclusion

Nominations for this award will cover areas of gender rights, prevention of gender discrimination, girl child foeticide, initiatives for the safety of women, promotion of women-led enterprises, inclusion of third gender into mainstream livelihood, etc.

Social Welfare

Nominations for this award will cover areas of implementing schemes & addressing key issues pertaining to various categories (senior citizens, PWD, women, children) & setting up of voluntary organizations to promote social welfare, livelihood, social audits, community involvement, initiatives towards social inclusion, etc.

Agriculture

Nominations for this award will cover areas of use of technology-based practices in agriculture, facilitation and promotion of agri-based insurance, organic farming practices, initiatives to drive economic growth through agriculture, promoting research, wellbeing of farmers, seed exchange drives, market linkages etc.

E – Governance

Nominations for this award will cover areas of technology-based citizen services to facilitate ease of living, technology solutions for industries, technology/IT run revenue services, grievance redressal mechanisms, disaster management, land management, etc.

Skill Development

Nominations for this award will cover areas of skill up-gradation, generation of employment opportunities, establishing vocational and technical training framework and rewarding of impactful implementation of skill development programs and employment linkages.

MSMEs

Nominations for this award will cover areas of promotion of friendly business environment for MSMEs, encouragement of investments, employment through MSMEs, access to finance, market linkages and business development services etc.

Start-up & Innovations

Nominations for this award will cover areas of promoting start-ups by developing a friendly business environment, access to finance, promotion of start up in student communities,creation/driving incubators, initiatives for public procurement of products/services, from start-ups etc.

Sustainability

Nominations for this award will cover areas of driving green transition, measures against climate change, initiatives to reduce use of single use plastic, social benefits for workers, contributions to Sustainable Development Goals, promoting green investments, soil conversation practices, etc.

Water

Nominations for this award will cover areas of water conservation and management, ground water rejuvenation, innovative practices to augment drinking water, reuse of water, rainwater harvesting, development or rejuvenation of local water bodies and awareness creation on conservation of water etc.

Energy

Nominations for this award will cover areas of implementation of Grid-interactive renewable power projects, clean energy, rooftop solar adoption, supporting pilots on new energy technologies, IEC on energy efficiency and conservation etc.

Resource utilisation from Central & State Schemes

Nominations for this award will cover areas of utilization of funds with respect to flagship programmes of central/state government, initiatives undertaken for convergence of schemes, efficient beneficiary targeting, etc.

Jury Awards

Disaster Management

Nominations for this award will cover areas of pre & post disaster management, measures taken
for building awareness against disasters, building resilience, rehabilitation of the public and
developing business continuity plan.

Law & Order

Nominations for this award will cover areas of exceptional measures taken to uphold the law, initiatives for crowd management at critical places, maintaining law and order etc.

Public Amenities

Nominations for this award will cover areas of creation or betterment of assets and public facilities
like night shelters, bus stands, non-motorised infrastructure, water dispensers, toilets etc.

Jury Special

A special category is reserved for exceptional public service in an area not covered and shall be evaluated solely at the discretion of the Hon’ble Jury members.