Awards & Achievements
4th JRD Tata Memorial Award 2008
Health & Family Welfare Department01-Jan-2008
In recognition to the States progress in terms of Maternal & Child Health and Family Planning, Sikkim was selected among the category of smaller states for the 4th JRD Tata Memorial Awards in 2008.The JRD Tata Memorial award, instituted by the Public Health Foundation of India is a national award for the best State and the best districts with outstanding performance in population and reproductive health and family planning programme. Among the smaller states (population of less than 10 million), Sikkim did well in relation to all the indicators considered for the 4th JRD Tata Memorial award.