Rajkot Wins ABP News Award for Law & Order,Women Safety,Cleanliness & Sanitation for the   Year 2013.

The ABP News-Ipsos Best City Research and Rewards running for the first time is the only consumer validated survey and celebrates the best of India’s cities and acts as a benchmark for excellence.

“Our country’s population is 121 crore and 38 crore live in cities. This award function is a small initiative to better the lives of citizens living in these cities. Our dream is to see every city shine in the country as a ‘Best City’,”

Rajkot bags three awards

Gujarat’s Rajkot has been seen as city with the Best Law and Order. It also has bagged an award for Women Safety and also for Cleanliness and Sanitation.

The award function was attended by dignitaries from India’s top political parties like Manish Tewari, Kapil Sibal, Rajnath Singh, Nitin Gadkari, Praful Patel, Ravishankar Prasad, Shahnawaz Hussain, Lalu Prasad Yadav, Sandeep Dikshit, Ramvilas Paswan and Amar Singh.

Many of them presented their views on infrastructure development in major cities, urban planning, improving cleanliness and sanitation, lack of resources, challenges before the state government, change of land use, migration of youths to cities.