Women Icons Leading Swachhata (WINS) Awards 2023:
To highlight the impact of women in sanitation and waste management, the Union Ministry for Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA) announced the ‘Women Icons Leading Swachhata’ (WINS) Awards 2023 on the eve of International Women’s Day.
- It aims to recognize celebrate and disseminate inspiring and exemplary initiatives in urban sanitation and waste management by women-led organizations and individual women.
- It aims to make make a transformational shift from ‘Women in Swachhata’ to ‘Women led Swachhata’
- Swachhatam Portal will be used for the selection of entries.
- In 2021, the integrated Swatchh Bharat Mission-Urban MIS portal Swachhatam and the state-of-art GIS platform were launched under SBM-U 2.0