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Nitin Gadkari, Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways; and Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises; Ram Vilas Paswan, Union Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution; Ravi Shankar Prasad, Union Minister of Law and Justice; Communications; and Electronics and Information Technology; and Dr Jitendra Singh, Minister of State (Independent charge), Development of North Eastern Region, Minister of State in the PMO; Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions; and Departments of Atomic Energy and Space gave away the awards.

Among the winners are Kartikeya Misra (Skill Development and Left-wing extremism district), Sandeep Nanduri (Implementation of Central schemes), Ayyaj Tamboli (Health), Astik Kumar Pandey (Community Involvement), Raj Kr. Yadav (North East districts), Vivek Yadav (Energy), Dr. A.Sharath (Education), Tukaram Mundhe (Technology Implementation), Dr. Prashant Bholanath Narnaware (Agriculture), C. R. Kharsan (Inclusive Innovation), Rakesh Kanwar (Social Welfare), Dr. Madhavi Khode Chaware (Child Development), Ashish Saxena (Women Development), Dr Shahid Iqbal Choudhary (Jammu and Kashmir districts), and Dr. S. Lakhmanan (Border districts).

These biennial awards are given to the most innovative solutions to governance challenges at the district level across the country and capture the widest range of what excellence in governance means – ideation, implementation and innovation.