The Jagatsingpur district administration got the prestigious national level SKOCH Award in Silver category in Covid management by setting up a proactive and empathetic governance model.
The award was given to the Jagatsinghpur administration under a special category for superior Covid management. The award instituted in 2003 is the highest civilian honour in the country and is conferred by an independent organisation.
It recognizes people, projects and institutions that go the extra mile to make India a better nation. The SKOCH Group is India’s leading Think Tank dealing with socio-economic issues, with a focus on inclusive growth, since 1997.
Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik congratulated the Jagatsinghpur district administration for bagging the prestigious SKOCH Award for efficiency in Covid-19 management. With two deaths and 573 recoveries so far, Jagatsinghpur district has 117 active cases at present. The award has brought in another feather in the cap for the district administration and district Collector Sangram Keshari Mohapatra, whose tireless perseverance brought Jagatsinghpur to be the only district in the entire country to have implementated e-file as a practice of good governace throughout the district led to end of the era of paper file. Several welfare measures and industrialisation process in Paradip including that of JSW Utkal has proved his proactive endeavour.