VARANASI: The Varanasi Good Metropolis was awarded in 4 totally different classes on the prize distribution ceremony of India Good Metropolis Award contest organized by the Union ministry of city and housing affairs in Surat, Gujarat on Monday.
Spokesperson of Varanasi Good Metropolis, Shakambhari Nandan Sonthalia, mentioned: “The awards embrace ‘COVID Innovation Award’, ‘Good Metropolis Management Award’, ‘Metropolis Award’ and ‘Water conservation award’.”
“The occasion was attended by Union minister of housing and concrete affairs, Hardeep Singh Puri, minister of state for housing and concrete affairs, Kaushal Kishor, minister of state for Railways, Darshana Jardosh and others,” he mentioned.
“The awards had been acquired by Varanasi Good Metropolis Municipal Commissioner/CEO, Pranay Singh, chief normal supervisor Dr. D Vasudevan, normal supervisor (finance and accounts), Sandeep Kumar,” he additional knowledgeable TOI.
He mentioned that the ‘COVID Innovation Award’ was given for exceptional initiatives in the course of the outbreak of Covid-19 pandemic and strict lockdown. “Throughout this era, the Kashi Built-in Command and Management Centre functioned as ‘Built-in Struggle Room’, the place district administration, emergency companies, well being division, telemedicine, municipal company associated services, meals and civil provides had been built-in beneath one roof,” he mentioned.
Additionally, the monitoring of contaminated zones, cluster mapping had been finished by the Geographical Data System (GIS). Other than this, the work of sanitization of containment zones and medication supply by drones, Secure Kashi App, metropolis surveillance, hospital monitoring had been additionally finished by Kashi Built-in Command and Management Centre.
In response to him, the town was awarded ‘Good Metropolis Management Award’ for its environment friendly functioning and correct implementation of tasks, ‘Metropolis Award’ within the cities to be chosen within the second section and ‘Water Class Award’ for water conservation.
Municipal Commissioner/CEO, Pranay Singh mentioned, “It's a matter of nice delight that Varanasi Good Metropolis has been awarded in 4 totally different classes within the India Good Metropolis Award contest.”
Chief normal supervisor Dr. D Vasudevan described the award “because the award of all Kashi and conveyed his finest needs to all of the residents of Kashi”.