Efforts to promote U.P.'s 'Kalanamak' rice, Bihar's 'makhana' earn PM's award
The Hindu
‘Kalanamak’ rice is an ODOP product of Siddharthnagar, an aspirational district located in Terai belt of Uttar Pradesh and makhana is ODOP from Bihar's Darbhanga district
Efforts to promote 'Kalanamak rice' by Uttar Pradesh's Siddharthnagar district administration and 'makhana' by Bihar's Darbhanga district officials were honoured with the Prime Minister's Awards for Excellence in Public Administration here on Thursday.
Besides these, building of efficient greenhouse to grow crops by the Ladakh Agriculture department and promotion of digital payments by Varanasi (U.P.) and Anantnag (Jammu and Kashmir) municipal corporations were also awarded with the PM's honour.
Prime Minister Narenda Modi gave away these awards to the officers concerned at a function organized on the occasion of 15th Civil Services Day at Vigyan Bhawan here.
Kalanamak rice, also called 'gift of Lord Buddha', has been awarded under ' one district one product' (ODOP) scheme, a mission-mode scheme for holistic development of the district.
The scheme adopts the ODOP approach to reap the benefit of scale in terms of procurement of inputs, availing common services and marketing of products.
ODOP scheme aims to provide framework for value chain development and alignment of support infrastructure towards economic development of the districts.
Kalanamak rice is an ODOP product of Siddharthnagar, an aspirational district located in Terai belt of Uttar Pradesh.
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