The Hindu 04.12.2009
VMC receives two awards under JNNURM
Staff Reporter
Photo: V.V. Krishnan
A distinction: Mayor Ratna Bindu (left) and VMC Commissioner P.S. Pradyumna (right) receiving an award from Union Minister for Urban Development S. Jaipal Reddy and Union Minister of State for Urban Development Kumari Selja at the National Conference on JNNURM in New Delhi on Thursday. —
VIJAYAWADA: Mayor M.V. Ratna Bindu and Municipal Commissioner P.S. Pradyumna received two awards under JNNURM — ‘Best City Award for Improvement in Solid Waste Management’ and ‘Award for Implementation of Pro-poor Reforms’ — from Union Minister for Urban Development and Poverty Alleviation S. Jaipal Reddy and Union Minister of State for Urban Development and Poverty Alleviation Kumari Selja at a function in New Delhi on Thursday. This is second time the VMC received an award from the Centre in the area of municipal solid waste management, the first being in 2007. The corporation, one of the 48 JNNURM cities, received first prize given by the Crisil Infrastructure Advisory, in association with the Union Ministry of Urban Development, in 2007. The Crisil also gave away two more awards to the corporation in appreciation of its commitment to reforms.
