Udupi: District bags 3 Panchayat Raj Awards from Union Ministry of Rural Development

By Snehalatha, Udupi
Bellevision Media Network

Udupi, 26 Apr 2013: The union minister of rural development Kishore Singh Dev presented national level Panchayat Raj awards to Udupi zilla panchayat, Karkal taluk panchayat and Maravante gram panchayat during a function held on the occasion of National Panchayat Day celebrations at Vijnan Bhavan, New Delhi, on Wednesday April 24.

 

Udupi zilla panchayat president Upendra Nayak, zilla panchayat chief executive officer S A Prabhakar Sharma, Karkal taluk panchayat president Rashmi Shetty, Maravante gram panchayat former president Janardhan Maravante received the awards from the minister Kishore Singh Dev at the occasion.

The union government has been presenting the cash award in order to recognize the Panchayat Raj institutions in local governance for their extraordinary achievement in empowering better governance. 

It’s significant that Udupi district bagged all the three awards during 2012 – 13, while during this period Katpady Shankar Poojary served as zilla panchayat.