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INDIAN DEVELOPMENTAL PROJECTS SHORT-LISTED FOR C’WEALTH AWARDS
Four Indian innovative development models are
among the top eleven short-listed submissions, out of over 150
submissions received by the Commonwealth Association for Public
Administration and Management (CAPAM) from various countries for
the ‘CAPAM International Innovative Awards Programme-2002’. The
Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions which is
an institutional member of the CAPAM since 1997, will be sponsoring
these four models at the next Awards Programme and the Biennial
Conference of CAPAM are scheduled to be organized from 5-11 September,
2002 in Glasgow, UK. The theme of this years’ Awards Programme
is ‘Innovative in Governance’ that respond to the significant
challenges extant in the current environment.
The four submissions from India include the computerization
of 20 million land records in Karnataka. The online Delivery of
Land Records which is known as "Bhoomi" is now available
on-line at all sub-districts headquarters and this system has
introduced transparency and freed farmers from extortion. The
second model depicts Innovative Community Policing initiatives
in Trichy in Tamil Nadu that have effectively met challenges of
gang-wars and terrorism in a fragmented Trichy City. The third
submission is of about the Urban Community Development Society
system functioning in the State of Kerala, under the aegis of
Kudumbashree, which has emerged as an innovative development model
of participatory poverty reduction by organizing 1,96,000 poor
women and enabling them to control the planning and implementation
process of various poverty programmes. And the fourth is National
Child Labour Project being undertaken by the Government of Tamil
Nadu for eliminating child labour in a unique way. This project
has changed the lives of thousands of children from one of servitude
to one with dignity.
The Project Coordinators of these submissions
have been invited by CAPAM to make a presentation before a 10-member
Jury in Glasgow, UK which will select the Award winners – one
Gold, two Silver and three Bronze. Earlier, India had won the
Gold Medal on both the occasions i.e., 1998 (Education Guarantee
Scheme of the Government of Madhya Pradesh) and 2000 (Kudumbashree;
Poverty Eradication Project of Government of Kerala).
