IEI Industry Excellence Award 2009

IEI INDUSTRY EXCELLENCE AWARD 2009

Preamble

The IEI Industry Excellence Award has been instituted to recognize industry leaders for their innovation, excellence in engineering operations and thereby to lead their industry in the globally competitive manner. The benchmarks created by the industries in India have included productivity, quality and performance assurance thereby giving India the rightful place in the global markets.

Realizing that such industries can provide the leadership to a large number of other industries in the country, it has been considered appropriate by the IEI Council to launch IEI Industry Excellence Award in the year 2008.

Modalities for the Award

The award is ‘application based’ and every engineering industry working in the country is welcome to participate. The application has to be sent in the Application Proforma along with the requisite application fee.

Those industries, who have received the IEI Industry Excellence Award earlier, are NOT eligible to apply.

The application is to be submitted in quadruplicate along with a soft copy on a CD and all the supporting documents, like the Audited Accounts, Annual Report, Sustainability Report, etc.

An undertaking is to be furnished by the applicants that the information and documents are true to the best of their knowledge and agree to indemnity any damage that might arise due to wrong information.

Categories of Awards

The award would be given to the organizations engaged in engineering manufacturing and services under the following categories :

----- Category 'A' : Organizations having a turn-over of Rs. 100 Crores and above

----- Category 'B' : Organizations having a turn-over of Rs. 25 Crores and below Rs. 100 Crores

----- Category 'C' : Organizations having a turn-over of below Rs. 25 Crores

What do you gain by applying for the Award ?

The Application Proforma, having self-assessment procedure, will give the applicant organization the confidence about performance of their industry in the process of applying for this award. The Application Proforma is based on international standards and is prepared by experts to collect information on the performance of the applicant industries.

What will Jury look for ?

The Jury for the selection will look for the procedure being followed by the industry and their benchmarking. The Jury will also look into the innovative approaches that the industry has been involved in and the improvement in performance of the industry (the information has to be duly backed-up by the data for three years of performance). The Jury will also be interested in finding out thrust of the corporate governance and corporate social responsibility strategies and other innovative approaches, improving competitiveness to the greater benefit of the country and the society.

Assessment Process

The assessment of the applications will be carried out at two levels as follows :

The first level of assessment would be carried out based on the weightage given to different items in the Application Proforma. This Assessment Committee is chaired by Prof (Dr) S M Chatterjee, a very eminent educationist and former Vice Chancellor, Bengal Engineering and Science University (BESU), Shibpur, West Bengal, who is also the Chairman of a number of private companies. The Assessment Committee will also have independent assessors. The short-listed applications will then be selected and presented to the Jury.

The Jury will be the second level and the final decision-making body to be headed by Dr A Ramachandran, an eminent engineer, former Secretary to the Government of India, Department of Science and Technology (DST), and also former Executive Director, UN Habitat and Under Secretary to the UNO. Besides the Chairman, the Jury will have independent eminent engineers drawn from different sectors including the government, public sector undertakings and private industries.

The decision of the Jury would be communicated to the selected award winners. The decision of the Jury shall be final and binding.

Application Fee

The application fees are as under :

Category 'A'	:	Rs. 30,000
Category 'B'	:	Rs. 20,000
Category 'C'	:	Rs. 10,000

In case the Jury considers it necessary to have a visit to the industry by any assessor or expert, then the same will have to be facilitated by the applicant by arranging for the travel and local hospitality. The payments have to be made by Crossed Demand Draft / Pay Order drawn in favour of ‘THE INSTITUION OF ENGINEERS (INDIA)’, payable at Kolkata.

Last Date for Application

The last date for application is 15th September 2009.

Award Presentation

The Awards will be presented at the Inaugural Ceremony of the Indian Engineering Congress of The Institution of Engineers (India) held during the month of December each year. This year, the Indian Engineering Congress will be held at Mangalore, Karnataka during December 10-13, 2009.

The Award

The Award will be given in the form of a gold-plated Plaque and a Certificate.

Disclaimer

IEI will take every care to protect the confidentiality of the assessment process. Information provided in the application will be made available only to the assessors, jury and concerned persons. However, IEI takes no responsibility if the information is shared by any of the persons involved in the process or any other form.

IEI will not return any documents furnished to facilitate assessment of the application.

IEI will not be held responsible if any of the information furnished in the application is found to be factually incorrect.

About The Institution of Engineers (India)

The Institution of Engineers [India] is the largest multi-disciplinary professional body of engineers with 15 engineering disciplines and over 6,00,000 members in India and abroad. The Institution was established in 1920 and was incorporated by Royal Charter in 1935. It has been in the forefront of engineering profession addressing the socio-engineering problems for progress of the country. In order to provide special attention to some of the important issues, in addition to engineering disciplines, it has established special vehicles of focus. The Engineering Staff College of India (ESCI), National Design and Research Forum (NDRF), Rural Development Forum (RDF), Safety and Quality Forum (SQF), Sustainable Development Forum (SDF) and Water Management Forum (WMF) are six such focussed initiatives. The Institution is an active player in international arena in engineering field including being a founding member of World Federation of Engineering Organizations (WFEO), Federation of Engineering Institutions of South & Central Asia (FEISCA) and Commonwealth Engineers’ Council (CEC). With its large international linkages and a network of 99 Centres in India and abroad, the Institution has built up a wide reach and a large infrastructure to meet its objectives of promoting engineering in all aspects. The Institution of Engineers (India) obtained the full membership of the Engineers Mobility Forum (EMF) for India at the Bi-annual International Engineering Meeting 2009 held at Kyoto, Japan on 17 June 2009. The Engineers Mobility Forum Agreement is an International Recognition Agreement for Professional Engineers between the engineering organizations in the member jurisdictions, which creates the framework for the establishment of an international standard of competence for professional engineering and then empowers each member organization to establish a section of the International Professional Engineers (IntPE) Register. The IEI is now authorized to operate Indian Section of the International Professional Engineers (IntPE) Register. The eligible Indian Professional Engineers would be placed, after due process, on the International Register. They would be entitled to exclusively use the title IntPE(India), indicating their international status. All eligible Indian engineers can now apply for Professional Engineers (PE) Certification through IEI only.

Further Information from :

Shri S Chakraverty

Assistant Director (Technical)

The Institution of Engineers (India)

8 Gokhale Road, Kolkata 700 020

Ph : 033 - 2223 8311 / 14 / 15 / 16 / 34 and 033 - 4010 6299 Extn. 218 (EPABX) / 033 - 4010 6218 (Direct)

E-mail : technical@ieindia.org