Kakching wins Best City award, Jiribam cleanest
Source: Chronicle News Service
Kakching/Jiri, November 21 2021:
Kakching Municipal Council and.Jiribam Municipal Council have won Best City in Citizens' Feedback and Cleanest City in different categories in the Swacchata Survekshan 2021 .
Kakching MC won the award in the category of city with population within 25,000 to 50,000 while Jiribam MC won the award in the category of city under 25,000 population.
The awards were distributed during an event held at Vigyan Bhavan, New Delhi in the presence of President Ram Nath Kovind, union minister for housing and urban affairs Hardeep Singh Puri, union minister of state for housing and urban affairs Kaushal Kishore, ministry of housing and urban affairs secretary Durga Shanker Mishra, joint secretary and Swachh Bharat Mission (Urban) mission director Roopa Mishra on Saturday.
MAHUD director Robert Singh Kshetrimayum, Kakching MC executive engineers Tunglut Khamminthang and Naorem Ramchandra, and Jiribam MC executive officer M Surjit received the awards.
Mention may be made here that Kakching MC had also won Cleanest City award in 2018, third Cleanest City in 2019 and Best City in Citizens' Feedback in 2020 .
Meanwhile, Jiribam Municipal Council executive officer M Surjit congratulated the staff and his team for the achievement.