Chhattisgarh
National Level Awards For Chhattisgarh
- 07 Aug 2021
- 2 min read
Why in News
- Chhattisgarh, which has emerged as a model state in the field of minor forest produce collection, has been honored with ten awards in various categories by the Government of India.
Key Points
- These awards were presented to Chhattisgarh by Union Tribal Affairs Minister Arjun Munda during a virtual program organized in New Delhi.
- These national awards have been given by the Tribal Cooperative Marketing Development Federation of India (TRIFED) by evaluating the performance of the states under three categories. These three categories are:
- Minimum Support Price;
- Van Dhan; And
- Sales & Marketing.
- Chhattisgarh has bagged first prize for:
- Inclusion of maximum number of forest produce (52) under the Minimum Support Price scheme for minor forest produce in 2020-21.
- Procurement of minor forest produce at the highest price from state government’s and Central government’s funds (Rs.1173 crores).
- Maximum utilization of the funds sanctioned in 2020-21 (Rs.127.09 Crores).
- Manufacturing maximum products through value addition (121).
- Maximum sale of products after value addition (Rs. 4.24 Crores).
- Completion of maximum survey under Van Dhan Yojana.
- Maximum training for forest development center clusters.
- For the manufacturing of sanitizer from Mahua and for producing new products from tamarind, it has also been awarded under the 'new product and innovation category'.
