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Athamalik second-best performing NAC in India

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members of Athmallik NAC being felicitated.

Bhubaneswar: Athamalik NAC was felicitated by Odisha Urban Housing Mission (OUHM) for being awarded the second-best performing NAC in India under the PMAY (Urban) Awards 2019.

MLA Athamalik, Ramesh Chandra Sai was the chief guest at the event. Debasis Singh, Additional Secretary to Govt H&UD department-cum-Mission Director OUHM welcomed the guests and briefed about the award and the felicitation programme .

The ‘PMAY Awards for Implementation and Innovation’, was instituted by the Ministry of Housing and Urban affairs in January 2019 to recognise outstanding performance of states, ULBs and beneficiaries under PMAY (U) mission. A set of four parameters were fixed by the Ministry for evaluation of awards under Best Performing Municipalities/ NAC category which included implementation of PMAY (U), institutional architecture of scheme, incremental monthly progress, outreach and transparency.

Athamalik NAC ranked second in the Country for its outstanding performance in all the four parameters. The NAC has completed 1,890 houses out of 2,102 allotted by the time. OUHM Odisha Urban Housing Mission is the state-level Nodal Agency for implementation of PMAY (U) in Odisha.

Among others, Chairperson Athamalik NAC, Asha Kumari Sahoo also attended the felicitation programme. The Executive Officer of Athamalik NAC, Kadambini Jena received the award and citation on behalf of Athamalik NAC, held in Unnati Bhawan here.


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