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16/01/21 09:00 AM IST

SKOCH Challenger Award

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Tribal Affairs Minister Arjun Munda is honoured with the SKOCH Challenger Award in a virtual ceremony on January 16, 2021

SKOCH Challenger Awards
  • SKOCH Challenger Awards, instituted in 2003, salute people, projects and institutions that went the extra mile to make India a better nation.
  • SKOCH Challenger Awards – the highest independently instituted civilian honours – have been conferred, the mighty and the ordinary have shared this platform for their extraordinary achievements in contributing to the society.
  • The SKOCH Challenger Awards cover the best of efforts in the area of digital, financial and social inclusion.
  • They encompass the best of governance, look at excellence in academics, change management, inclusive growth, citizen services delivery, capacity building, empowerment and other such softer issues that get normally lost in the glamour and the glitz of industry-sponsored or advertising focused jamborees
Highlights
  • The Ministry of Tribal Affairs has digitalised the entire scholarship release process
  • All 5 scholarship schemes have been digitalised as per DBT Mission mandate.
  • 13 schemes are on Ministry dashboard, 6 initiatives are on Prayas PMO dashboard.
  • Making the entire scholarship release process online has enabled 64 lakh beneficiaries to receive scholarships directly into their accounts through DBT. 
Ice-Stupa
  • It is a unique project to solve water problem in Ladakh region which faces shortage due to  climate change.
  • It is a way to store frozen melt water in the winter which can be used during the spring sowing season.
  • The structure is built comprising of locally found material with large water retention capacity, which looks like Stupa.
  • “26 such Ice-Stupas were establish in 2019-20, which stored  about 60 million litre of water.
  • More than 35 villages have been benefitted from this already.
  • The projects is owned by the community and is scaling up to include another 25 Stupas”.
Source: PIB

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