The Hindu Business Line : Sabarmati river front body gets PM's award

THE Sabarmati River Front Development Corporation has bagged the Prime Minister's award for excellence in urban planning and design for cleaning up the river and getting water to the nearly dry river in Ahmedabad.

The JVSL township in Bellary has also bagged the prestigious award in a different category.

The Sabarmati River Front Development Corporation has bagged the first prize for innovative ideas, concepts and plans where the projects are still in the pipeline or at implementation stage. The award was for year 1998-99, an official release said here on Friday.

The corporation has successfully carried out a scheme to clean up the Sabarmati riverfront in Ahmedabad and recently restored health to the highly polluted river that had been reduced to a mere trickle.

The Prime Minister's award for urban planning and design projects signifying exceptional quality went to Mr Gerard De Cunha of Architecture Autonomous, Goa, for the JVSL Township at Bellary.

The second prize in the category went to City and Industrial Development Corporation, Navi Mumbai, for developing the Agriculture Produce Marketing Complex in the city.

The awards are given out biennially and aim to reward highly successful and promising innovations in urban planning and design in order to improve functional performance of cities and their quality of life.

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