National Panchayat Awards

National Panchayat Awards
 

News: The President of India recently presented the National Panchayat Awards and inaugurated the National Conference on Incentivization of Panchayats in New Delhi.
 

About:
 The award was given to the best-performing Panchayats by assessing their performance in the attainment of SDGs. These annual awards were first instituted in 2011.
 The Awardee Panchayats under various categories of National Panchayat Awards–2023 named:
 Deen Dayal Upadhyay Panchayat Satat Vikas Puraskar(DDUPSVP) for the performance under individual LSDG themes,
 Nanaji Deshmukh Sarvottam Panchayat Satat Vikas Puraskar(NDSPSVP) for the aggregate performance under all 9 LSDG themes and green initiative-related Special Categories.
 Gram Urja Swaraj Vishesh Panchayat Puraskar and Carbon Neutral Vishesh Panchayat Puraskar.
 

Key Highlight of meeting:
 During the event Union Minister of Rural Development launched the GS NIRNAY, National Initiative for Rural India to
Navigate, InnovAte and Resolve PanchaYat decisions, a mobile application.
 It provides easy access to critical information discussed during a Gram Sabha.
 This would bring in more transparency and increase efficiency in the functioning of Panchayats, which play a vital role in decentralized participatory democracy