National Level Awards For Chhattisgarh | 07 Aug 2021

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.

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'.