Odisha won the ‘World Habitat Award’, global recognition for its ambitious initiative Jaga Mission. This award is given by World Habitat, a UK-based organization, in partnership with United Nation (UN)-Habitat, every year, in recognition of innovative, outstanding, and revolutionary ideas, projects, and programmes from across the world.
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Jaga Mission is a slum land titling project, benefiting a million urban-poor living in the slums. Recently, this project was also awarded the ‘India Geospatial Excellence Award’ for technological innovation in transforming the lives of urban poor.