The district administration has added another feather to its cap by securing a top honour for the Centre’s Beti Bachao-Beti Padhao (BBBP) scheme. The award comes in the category of ‘effective community engagement’.
Of all the districts in the country which participated in the BBBP campaign, only 25 have been selected for the national-level awards. Among them, Karimnagar is the one district from Telangana to secure the honour.
Collector Sarfaraz Ahmad would receive the award at a function in New Delhi on January 24, which is also celebrated as National Girl Child Day. He attributed the award to collective work of entire district administration, public representatives, voluntary organisations and people in general.
As part of BBBP, district officials had campaigned in all villages to educate people on protecting and empowering the girl child. They had taken up poster campaigns across government offices and educational institutions, even displaying boards highlighting the sex ratio in villages. Cultural troupes had also been roped in to educate the rural masses about the importance of saving and educating the girl child.
Earlier, the district administration, under the leadership of Mr. Ahmad, had secured another national-level award. Under the Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Grameen Kaushalya Yojana of the Union government, the Collector took initiatives for providing training to 2,209 unemployed and helped 2, 077 youths secure employment in the private sector. During that period, the district emerged top in Telangana, and received the Prime Minister’s Excellence Award in Public Administration on Civil Services Day on April 21, 2018.
