Nagpur Happy Streets Gains Prize for Citizen Engagement
His time to celebrate the Nagpur people as one of the city’s prominent events organized on Sunday called Happy Street has bagged the award for citizens ‘ engagement. Yes, you heard it right, the Sunday-only event organized by the Times Group seems to have been making headlines since long it started that helped it get applauded in the media. The award was conferred by the Ready 2 Innovate World Wide in the said category.
City mayor Sandip Joshi and Germany’s Karlsruhe, who was Frank Mentrup’s mayor together, presented the award at the Civil Lines award function in Nagpur. The award was given by the NGO cum Private Company called R2iW which gives awards to various groups and organizations that carry out programs and initiatives like that.
The event is held four times a month and only takes place on Sunday. It began on Jan 12 this year and continued until Jan’s last week. It will probably resume on this Sunday. The stretch of the road from the square of Law College to Laxmi Bhuvan Square is witnessing the event in which more than 20,000 people appear in the event every Sunday.
Several events are planned for the people to participate and have a good time, ranging from yoga to cycling, fitness programs and musical shows. The Happy Streets are organized in association with different city groups such as NNC, Nagpur First, NEERI, IEEE Nagpur and Smart City SPV, to name a few.
