Minister for Information Technology Ponnala Lakshmiah was on Thursday named the recipient of the Rashtra Seva Ratna award for his contribution to the Jalayagnam project by the Confederation of NGOs of Rural India (CNRI).
The 20-point Program Chairman N Tulasi Reddy was named the winner of the Bharat Seva Ratna for his services in villages by the CNRI.
The CNRI is an apex body of Non-Governmental Organisations of rural India with the specific objective of strengthening, co-ordinating and facilitating their working at the grass roots level for integrated development of rural India. The body aims to facilitate NGOs to emerge as a think-tank as well as a consultative body at national and international level.
The CNRI gives the 2 awards every year according to its state Chairman M Srinivasa Reddy. One of the stated ancillary objectives of the CNRI is to confer such honorary titles and distinctions to distinguished persons in India and abroad in recognition of their valuable contribution to the cause of the confederation.
There are 8,000 CNRI societies in India, with 800 of them in the state.
Courtesy: INN
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