Twenty four village panchayats in the district have been selected to receive the Union Government’s Nirmal Gram Puraskar for 2007 – 2008.The award is given every year to outstanding village panchayats for ensuring cleanliness under their jurisdiction by executing solid and liquid waste management programmes and making the villagers to construct toilet in every house with financial assistance being extended by the Central Government. Ravanasamudram is also one among these 24.