Prime Minister Modi conferred the National Panchayat Awards 2021 on the occasion of National Panchayati Raj day.
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The National Panchayat Awards 2021 are being conferred under the following categories:
- Deen Dayal Upadhyay Panchayat Sashaktikaran Puraskar (to 224 Panchayats),
- Nanaji Deshmukh Rashtriya Gaurav Gram Sabha Puraskar (to 30 Gram Panchayats),
- Gram Panchayat Development Plan Award (to 29 Gram Panchayats),
- Child-friendly Gram Panchayat Award (to 30 Gram Panchayats) and
- e-Panchayat Puraskar (given to States/UTs only) (to 12 States).
Prime Minister will transfer the award money (as Grants-in-Aid) through the click of a button, ranging from Rs.5 lakh to Rs.50 lakh. The amount will be directly transferred to the bank account of the Panchayats concerned in real time. This is being done for the first time.
