Sixteen personnel who did ‘exemplary’ work in carrying out the 15th National Census in 2011 will be honoured by the district administration Champawat on the occasion of Independence Day on Saturday, said DM Deependra Kumar Chaudhary.
Out of the 16 personnel, 10 have received silver medal and six bronze medals have from the President of India. Out of these 16, eight are from the district education department, five from the revenue department, one each from the PWD, municipal council and anganbari and child development, Champawat district administration officials said.
The awardees are G C Pant, Shushila Joshi, Chatur Singh, C M Pandey, Kamlesh Joshi, Ramesh Chandra, Puran Giri and Disha Varma from the education department, Pradeep Jukariya, H C Joshi, Pramod Kumar, Anurag Arya, and T S Martoliya from the revenue department, Janki Chand from anganbari, Nirmal Joshi from PWD and Sharad Aggarwal from the municipal council, added the officials.
Interestingly, Pankaj Kumar Pandey, district magistrate, Udham Singh Nagar, has also been honoured by the President of India for doing ‘exemplary’ work in carrying out census 2011 during his tenure as district magistrate of Champawat in 2011.