President to award Nirmal Gram Puraskar in city

  • 04/10/2008

  • Sentinel (Guwahati)

GUWAHATI, Oct 3: For the first time, Guwahati will be the venue of the first phase of presentation of the Nirmal Gram Puraskar (NGP) under the Total Sanitation Campaign. President Pratibha Patil is scheduled to present the awards at a function to be held at the Sarusjai Sports Complex on October 20. This was stated by Shantha Sheela Nair, secretary to the Drinking Water Department under the Rural Development Ministry while interacting with the press here today. She said, the president will present the NGP to thousands of awardees expected to gather in the city from eight States