About The Awards

Eligibility and conditions

  • Engineering/ Manufacturing Sector
    Instrumentation, Energy and Power, Automobile, Chemicals, Metals and Metallurgy, Textile, Food & Beverages, machinery, engines, electrical and electronic equipment and other sectors

  • ICT & Services
    Software development; telecommunications activities; publishing activities, including software publication; motion picture and sound recording activities; radio and TV broadcasting and programming

  • Life Sciences (Pharmaceuticals and Biotechnology) & Agriculture
    Agriculture, Pharmaceuticals & Biotechnology.

  • MSME

Manufacturing* & Services** Investment Turnover
Micro Enterprises

Small Enterprises

Medium Enterprises 		Up to 1 cr

Up to 10 cr.

Up to 20 cr. 		Less than 5 cr.

Less than 50 cr.

Less than 100 cr.

Note:

*Enterprises engaged in the manufacture or production, processing or preservation of goods. Investment in plant and machinery is the original cost excluding land and building and the items specified by the Ministry of Small-Scale Industries vide its notification No.S.O.1722(E) dated October 5, 2006.

**Enterprises engaged in providing or rendering of services and whose investment in equipment (original cost excluding land and building, and furniture, fittings and other items not directly related to the service rendered or as may be notified under the MSMED Act, 2006)

  • Large Industry:
    Companies not falling in the category of MSME& Startups.

  • Start-ups:
    as per the definition given by Government of India. (Incorporation certificate needs to be submitted.)

  • R & D Institutes
    Public funded laboratories (under CSIR, DRDO, ISRO, DAE, DST, DBT, MeitY, MES etc.), private sector research labs, autonomous labs set up by Trusts/Societies.

  • Academic Institution
    Centres of Excellence/labs/specialized technology centres from Govt. funded, self-financing and government, private or autonomous academic institutions (technical colleges/universities).