Madhya Pradesh police have bagged three platinum awards under the excellent category of Skoch award-2017; awards were present on September 8 and 9, 2017 to Dial -100 team.
The award is given for best working States, government organisations and organisations working with Government department at local level, State level and national level. These awards are given for implementation of Government schemes and best practices and models of good governance in providing services.
For the past several years Skoch group has been providing awards in different areas. This year for the 49th Skoch smart governance award 5000 nominations were received and 200 nominations were selected.
This time a 100 member jury reviewed the nominations, popular votes and votes of delegates to select awards in three categories Platinum, gold and silver.
Madhya Pradesh police have received three platinum awards state Dial 100 services, state level CCTV surveillance system and Madhya Pradesh Telecommunication headquarters. On September 8 and 9, 2017 awards were presented at Constitution Club of India New Delhi. The award was presented to ADG (Telecommunication) Anvesh Mangalam, SP Dial 100 Amit Saxena, SP (Radio) Neetu Thakur received the award.
At the award function Union Minister for Rural Development and Panchyat Raj Narendra Singh Tomar and Information Technology Minister of Telangana KT Ramarao praised the schemes of the Madhya Pradesh.
The Madhya Pradesh Dial 100 services nominated in the final round of the Skotch Award received good response from the State people who have voted online in favour of Madhya Pradesh Dial-100 and it received votes which are around twice of the votes for all the other schemes across the country.