Awards
UN Land for Life Award
- Familial Forestry, an environmental conservation project by Rajasthan's Shyam Sunder Jyani, bagged the prestigious United Nations' Land for Life Award 2021.
- United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) announced the winner on June 17 2021 (World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought, observed with the theme “Restoration.Land.Recovery. We build back better with healthy land”).
- Through his project about 2.5 million trees have been planted in a time span of 15 years.
Smart Cities Awards 2020
- The Central government on 15th June 2021 declared Smart City awards 2020 on completion of six years of Smart Cities Mission.