Nimal Rajya award was conferred to sikkim on
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Nirmal Rajya award was given to Sikkim in the year 2013. It was the first state in the country to achieve 100 percent sanitation. Sikkim chief minister Pawan Chamling recieved the award in a prestigious ceremony held in Pune. It became the first Nirmal Rajya by placing a ban on grazing, ban on tree cutting and ban on the use of tobacco products.
Sikkim is the first Nirmal Rajya in the country, to have achieved 100 per cent physical coverage in in rural Households, schools, aganwadis, institutional and community toilets.
Former president Pratibha Devisingh Patil conferred the Nirmal Rajya Award on Sikkim Chief Minister Pawan Chamling on December 8, 2008 for successful implementation of a demand-driven and people-centered sanitation programme."