Rajiv Gandhi National Quality Award

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Rajiv Gandhi National Quality Award
Awarded forRecognising Indian businesses for excellence in applying the principles of Total Quality Management
Sponsored by Bureau of Indian Standards
CountryIndia
First awarded1992
Website www.bis.org.in/other/rgnqa_geninfo.htm

The Rajiv Gandhi National Quality Award is the national quality award given by the Bureau of Indian Standards to Indian organisations that show excellence in their performance. It is named after Rajiv Gandhi, the former Prime Minister of India, and was introduced in 1991 after his death. [1] The award aims to promote quality services to the consumers and to give special recognition to organisations that contribute significantly towards the quality movement of India. [2]

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The award is presented annually as per the financial year, and is similar to other national quality awards worldwide like the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award of the United States, European Quality Award of the European Union and the Deming Prize of Japan. [2]

Awards

The award is presented to organisations in five broad categories: large scale manufacturing, small scale manufacturing, large scale service sector, small scale service sector and best overall. Furthermore, there are 14 commendation certificates for organisations showing excellence in various fields, including but not limited to biotechnology, chemicals, electronics, food and drugs, metallurgy, textiles, jewelry, education, finance, healthcare and information technology. [2] [3]

Apart from the certificated and awards, the winner of Best of All gets a monetary prize of 500,000 (US$6,300), while the other four awards carry a cash prize of 200,000 (US$2,500). The commendation certificate carries a financial incentive of 100,000 (US$1,300). [2]

"Best of all" winners [4] [5] [6]
YearRecipient
199192 Kirloskar Cummins Limited, Pune
1993 Steel Authority of India Limited Bhilai Steel Plant, Bhilai
1994 ITC Limited ILTD Division Chirala (A.P.)
1995 ITC Limited ILTD Division, Anaparti, Andhra Pradesh
1996Tata Bearings (A Division of TISCO), Kharagpur, West Bengal
1997 Larsen & Toubro Limited, Bangalore Works, Bangalore (Karnataka)
Ammunition Factory, Khadki Pune, Maharashtra
1998 Mathura Refinery of Indian Corporation Limited, Mathura
1999 Gujarat Co-operative Milk Marketing Federation Limited, Anand
Tata Cummins Limited, Jamshedpur
2000 Tata International Limited, Dewas
2001 Birla Cellulosic, Bharuch
2002(No award)
2003 Indian Oil Corporation Ltd (Gujarat Refinery), Vadodara
Grasim Industries Ltd (Chemical Division), Nagda
2005 Moser Baer India Limited, Greater Noida
2006 Steel Authority of India Limited Bhilai Steel Plant, Bhilai
2007 Steel Authority of India Limited Bokaro Steel Plant, Bokaro
2008 Satluj Jal Vidyut Nigam Limited, Shimla, Himachal Pradesh.
2009 Tata Motors Limited, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh
2010 Vikram Cement Works (A unit of UltraTech Cement Limited), Khor, Madhya Pradesh
2011 DAV ACC Senior Secondary Public School Barmana, Himachal Pradesh
2012 Rail Wheel factory, Yelahanka, Bangalore
2013 Navjaat Bhaskar
2014 Larsen & Toubro Limited

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