Keonjhar Admin Bags Two More SKOCH Awards

Bhubaneswar: Keonjhar district administration has bagged two more SKOCH awards in the categories of ‘District Governance’ and Municipal Governance’.

The district admin received SKOCH Silver Award 2022 ‘District Governance’ category for the WADI program under Deputy Director Horticulture and ‘Municipal Governance’ category for WUSHU stadium under Barbil Municipality.

WADI is a comprehensive project to promote agro-horti-forestry based livelihood as a source of income security for small and marginal farmers in mining areas.

The model provides an assured and continuous source of food, fodder, fuel, medicine and timber, year after year once the trees reach maturity.

The project covers around 1460-acre area while giving sustainable livelihood support to 1516 small and marginal farmers.

WUSHU, a state-of-the-art academy is set up in Barbil Municipality to nurture sporting talent among youth and excel in world sports.

The academy is built over an area of 10,000 sq. ft. equipped with world class training facilities. At present 150+ WUSHU & Kick Boxing Athletes are being trained in this facility.

DMF Keonjhar has supported both the projects.

Keonjhar Collector Ashish Thakare has congratulated all stakeholders for the awards.

Earlier, the Keonjhar admin had bagged the SKOCH Gold Award 2022 under ‘District Governance’ category for the Agriculture Production Cluster program under Deputy Director Horticulture.