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Friday, September 26, 2008

IBN7 Diamond States Award: Kerala and Goa wins five awards each

Dr.  Abdul Kalam  felicitates the winners.


The states of Kerala and Goa bagged five awards each at the IBN7 Diamond States Award ceremony including India's best big state and India's best small state awards respectively.

The state of Kerala also won in Healthcare, Education, Women Empowerment and Basic Infrastructure category. The state of Goa won in Employment, Poverty Reduction, Women Empowerment and Basic Infrastructure category.

Delhi won the best small state award for Water and Sanitation category. Other award winners included Punjab (Water and Sanitation) Gujarat (Employment), Mizoram (Education), Sikkim (Citizen Security and Justice), Uttaranchal (Citizen Security and Justice) and Jammu and Kashmir (Poverty Reduction) The winners were felicitated by the chief guest Dr Kalam.

Railway Minister Lalu Prasad, Home Minister Shivraj Patil, senior BJP leader Murli Manohar Joshi and Bangladeshi writer Tasleema Nasreen were also present on the occasion.

The awards were given in partnership with the Outlook magazine for human resource and social developmental efforts by the states of the country. The event will be telecast on IBN7 channel on September 27 (Saturday) at 2000 hrs.



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