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World Habitat Day will be celebrated on October 3, 2005. The theme of this year’s celebrations is Millennium Development Goals and the City. This theme, chosen by the United Nations, is to remind all of us that in the year 2000, world leaders meeting at the dawn of the new Millennium, committed themselves by adopting a set of eight goals to launch a concerted attack on poverty, illiteracy, hunger, unsafe water, disease and urban and environmental degradation. In September this year, the UN General Assembly will hold a five-year review meeting to weigh progress on the eight goals.
Kumari Selja, Minister of State for Urban Employment and Poverty Alleviation will give away the prizes to winners of the NHB Essay Competition 2004 and Painting Competition 2005. Shri Prithiviraj Chavan MOS in the PMO will be the Chief Guest.
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