National Panchayat Awards

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Recently, the winners of the National Panchayat Awards 2025 (NPA-2025) have been announced by the Ministry of Panchayati Raj (MoPR).

About National Panchayat Awards

• It is awarded by the Ministry of Panchayati Raj annually to recognize and incentivize best-performing Panchayats.
  • The awards are given under the Incentivization of Panchayats (IoP) scheme, a central component of the Centrally Sponsored Scheme of Rashtriya Gram Swaraj Abhiyan (RGSA).
• Background: These awards have been revamped and launched during the year 2022 aligning them with 9 Localization of Sustainable Development Goals (LSDGs) themes aggregating 17 SDGs.
• Objective: To assess the performance of Panchayats in attainment of SDGs, promote competitive spirit among them and catalyze the process of LSDGs through Panchayati Raj Institutions for attaining LSDGs by 2030.
• All the Panchayats are ranked based on their performance under each of the following 9 LSGD themes :
  • Poverty free and enhanced livelihoods Panchayat
  • Healthy Panchayat
  • Child Friendly Panchayat
  • Water Sufficient Panchayat
  • Clean and Green Panchayat
  • Self-sufficient infrastructure in Panchayat
  • Socially Just and Socially secured Panchayat
  • Panchayat with Good Governance
  • Women-Friendly Panchayat
• The awards are conferred under two distinct categories.
  • Deen Dayal Upadhyay Panchayat Satat Vikas Puraskar (DDUPSVP): Recognises outstanding Gram Panchayats for their performance across 9 Localisation of Sustainable Development Goals (LSDGs) themes
  • Nanaji Deshmukh Sarvottam Panchayat Satat Vikas Puraskar (NDSPSVP): It is conferred to the best-performing Panchayats at the District, Block, and Gram Panchayat levels on an overall basis.

Source: PIB

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