Rewarding good work

The Nexus of Good Annual Awards 2024 will celebrate 21 exemplary individuals and organisations for impactful initiatives in governance, education, sustainability etc.—inspiring replicable models of socio-economic progress

- ANIL SWARUP

The third Nexus of Good Annual Awards, 2024, have been announced. Twenty-one performing organisations and individuals will be awarded on December 15, 2024, at a ceremony at PHD House, New Delhi.

The primary objective of the Nexus of Good movement is to bring together good people to identify, understand, appreciate, replicate, and scale the good work being done across society. The idea is to create an alternative narrative to the negativity that is becoming pervasive in social media and other communication platforms. Such negativity impacts the thoughts and actions of many people, especially impressionable young minds.

Fortunately, the movement has gained momentum. A vibrant portal, www.nexusofgood.com, hosts hundreds of positive stories, with more being added daily. The Twitter handle has thousands of followers, and a quarterly newsletter highlights these stories, as does a weekly column in Millennium Post. City Chapters of Nexus of Good hold periodic events to provide a platform to highlight and road-show good work.

As during the past couple of years, this year's awards recognise a combination of exemplary and replicable work accomplished through public-private partnerships by civil servants and non-governmental organisations.

A young IAS officer, Jasmeet Singh, is setting a wonderful example of good governance through the convergence of various government schemes in his role as Collector in the remote district of Selumbar, Rajasthan. The model he has implemented is highly replicable through public-private partnerships and has already been highlighted in the columns of this newspaper. He is one of the awardees in the Good Governance segment.