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Nadia only district from India to be awarded the United Nations Public Service Awards

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West Bengal Chief Minister Ms Mamata Banerjee announced on social media that the district of Nadia is the only district in the country to be awarded the the prestigious United Nations Public Service Awards this year for excellence in delivery of public services for “Sabar Souchagar” under Mission Nirmal Bangla.

The West Bengal Chief Minister on social media wrote:

“Nadia is the only district from India to have been awarded the prestigious United Nations Public Service Awards this year for excellence in delivery of public services for “Sabar Souchagar” under Mission Nirmal Bangla.

This is the highest global recognition in public service delivery.

In a programme at Columbia, South America, Dr P B Salim, District Magistrate, Nadia and Shri Bani Kumar Roy, Sabhadhipati, Nadia Zilla Parishad received the coveted award and citation from Acting Secretary General of the United Nations on 26th June, 2015.

I am proud of my entire Nadia team for this outstanding achievement. My best wishes to all of them.”

Bengal’s Nadia wins United Nations Public Service Award 2015 for ‘Nirmal Bangla’ project

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The “Sabar Souchagar” (toilet for all) project in West Bengal’s Nadia district, framed under the state’s Nirmal Bangla Mission and aimed at promoting cleanliness and sanitation in rural Bengal, has been won the prestigious United Nations Public Service Award 2015.

West Bengal Chief Minister Ms Mamata Banerjee announced the news of this path-breaking achievement of West Bengal during a Government programme at Namkhana in South 24 Parganas.

Apart from the UN, UK-based Loughborough University has also selected the project as “an inspiring district-level model for eliminating open defecation in India” and it would be felicitated at the 38th WEDC International Conference in London in July 2015.

On April 30, 2015, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee made a formal announcement of Nadia becoming the first Indian district to earn Open Defecation Free (ODF) status. Hooghly and Bardhaman are placed on second and third rank respectively.

The Chief Minister tweeted: