Swachhata Awards 2020:
- Union Minister for Jal Shakti, Shri Gajendra Singh Shekhawat and the Minister of State, Jal Shakti, Shri Rattan Lal Kataria conferred the Swachhata Awards 2020 on the 20 best performing districts on the occasion of World Toilet Day i.e. on November 19, 2020. These districts have been awarded for making significant contribution towards ODF Sustainability and ODF Plus goals. This year, World Toilet Day theme was “Sustainable sanitation and climate change”.
20 awardee districts are:
West Godavari and East Godavari (Andhra Pradesh); Siang (Arunachal Pradesh); Kanker and Bemetara (Chhattisgarh); Vadodara and Rajkot (Gujarat); Bhiwana and Rewari (Haryana); Ernakulam and Wayanad (Kerala); Kolhapur and Nashik (Maharashtra); Kolasib and Serchhip (Mioram); Moga and Fatehgarh Sahib (Punjab); Siddipet and Peddapalli (Telangana); and Cooch Behar (West Bengal)