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Tilottama Municipality of Rupandehi has appealed for online voting after being selected for the international award of good practice in citizen participation.
The Green Clean Tilottama campaign of the Municipality has been selected in the Ecological Transition and Environment group for the Best Practice in Citizen Participation Award called by the International Observatory on Participation Democracy. Due to the application for the 2025 award, the best 40 out of 137 local and state governments of 37 countries in the world have succeeded in the final competition in Tilotta.
The OIDP has mentioned on its website that the award winner will be announced based on 50 points of open online voting among 40 applicants and 50 points of the jury (judge). Mayor Ramakrishna Khan said that the award will be distributed at the 24th OIDP Conference (Conference) to be held in Cordoba, Argentina from May 21 to 23. According to him, since 2074 to 8 years, Tilottama municipality has managed to reach the finals of this award because it has continuously conducted the city cleanliness and green promotion campaign on the 1st and 15th of every month with the large participation of the citizens.
Not only Nepal, but only Tilotta among the SAARC countries has managed to reach the final competition of the award, now the winner has been appealed to the Nepalis around the world to vote online to make the name of Nepal more known around the world.
"The issue of ecological system and climate has become a burning problem all over the world, we have done exemplary work in the promotion of greening and urban sanitation with mass public participation, this award will play a big role in making it known throughout Nepal and the world," said Khan.
Municipal Information Technology Branch Head Sunil Panthi said that as OIDP has made rules for online voting in five different categories, voting in only one category will be cancelled. He said that Tilottama can be voted in ecological transition and environment category. He said that one can go to the OIDP website and vote by creating an email account.
Tilottma Municipality has been continuously running cleanliness and greening promotion campaign with public participation every 15 days since 074 for the eighth year.
