Aizawl: Mizoram received the 5th JRD Tata Memorial Award for outstanding performance in improving the health of their people for the year 2011.
The award was instituted in memory of Population Foundation of India, Founder Chairman JRD Tata, recognizes the pace of progress by states and districts on population and reproductive health programmes.
Nobel Laureate and renowned economist Prof Amartya Sen presented the award to senior Ministers and District Collectors from the award-winning States and districts at the JRD Tata Memorial Oration and Awards ceremony on July 31 in New Delhi, a delayed report from Delhi said.
The prize money is to be spent on strengthening the work of NGOs working on reproductive health and family planning programmes.
The committee had identified a set of 13 indicators on reproductive health, gender equity, family planning and housing amenities to measure the progress of the districts in the country. (NNN)