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i) The objective of the Awards is to recognize outstanding achievements of sportspersons in the field of sports at international level

(ii) To honour and motivate those sportspersons who have contributed to sports by their performance and continue to contribute to promotion of sports even after their retirement from active sporting career.

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1. To honour and motivate those sportspersons who have contributed to sports by their performance and continue to contribute to promotion of sports even after their retirement from active sporting career

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To promote excellence and recognize outstanding contributions made by the yound CSIR scientists for their work done primarily in India during the last five years preceding the year of the Award.

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The award is intended to :

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In consideration of Gallant Act and Exceptional Courage.

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 In consideration of gallantry and outstanding devotion to duty

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Instituted in 1988 by Smt. Deepika Kumar in memory of her father, late Dr. H.B. Dingley. ICMR has contributed towards the enhancement of the award amount.

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Instituted in 1977 by Dr. K. N. Sen, former Professor of Medicine, School of Tropical Medicine, Kolkata in memory of his friend. ICMR has contributed towards the enhancement of the award amount

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Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship (MSDE) instituted the Kaushalacharya Award in 2019(This Award carries a Certificate) as an annual affair, to felicitate trainers from different sectors for exceptional contribution towards creating a future-ready and skilled work-force in a bid to motivate and incentivize more trainers to join the Skill India Mission   and  also to recognize the contribution made by skill trainers in the vocational training ecosystem and entrepreneurial initiatives to motivate young entrepreneurs  for taking up self employment as means of livelihood.   The 4^th edition of the Award will be held in 2022. The Award ceremony have normally be presided over by the Hon’ble Minister of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship(SDE) and Minister of State, SDE.

It is estimated India will need about 2.5 lakh trainers across the skilling ecosystem.  Under MSDE aegis, the National Skill Development Corporation(NSDC) and Directorate General of Training(DGT) are working together to create better quality trainers and assessors.  

Under the Kaushalacharya Award there are five categories as  under:

1. Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana(PMKVY)

2. Jan Shikshan Sansthan(JSS)

3. Apprenticeship

4. Entrepreneurship

5. DGT

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The "Kendriya Grihmantri Dakshata Padak" has been instituted to recognize excellent work, promote high professional standards and boost the morale ofthe concerned official/officer in the following fields :

(a) Special Operation

(b) Investigation

(c) Intelligence

(d) Forensic Science

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The Logistics Excellence, Advancement, and Performance Shield (LEAPS) is a flagship initiative of Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT), Ministry of Commerce and Industry, designed to acknowledge and celebrate the best practices and innovations within the logistics industry.

In line with the National Logistics Policy 2022, LEAPS aims to create a new benchmark in India, as well as globally, by not only recognizing outstanding leadership and innovative endeavours across various sectors within the logistics industry, including air, road, sea, rail freight, warehousing, multimodal transportation, but also the MSMEs, Startups, and Academia who have been providing innovative solutions across the logistics ecosystem.

LEAPS also raise awareness about sustainability, ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) practices, and Green Logistics, while promoting collaboration between the government, industry, and academia to drive progress and efficiency.

Building upon the foundation laid by the PM GatiShakti National Master Plan and the National Logistics Policy, LEAPS endeavours to further enhance India's logistics infrastructure and efficiency. LEAPS aims to create a technologically enabled, integrated, and sustainable logistics ecosystem. This initiative is designed to acknowledge and celebrate the best practices and innovations within the logistics industry. This is the 4th edition of LEAPS.

   The key guiding principles for “LEAPS” are:

1. Comprehensive coverage of all logistics sectors and ecosystem enablers
2. Special focus on MSMEs and Startups
3. Showcase of diversity, inclusion and ESG best practices in the logistics industry
4. Alignment with the objectives of PM Gati Shakti
5. Alignment with the mission of Aatmanirbhar Bharat
6. Process innovation, efficiency aided by technology adoption.

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1. The objective of the award is to recognize the spectacular and most outstanding performance in the field of Sports by a sportsperson over a period of four years immediately preceding the year during which the award is to be given. During the years when Olympic Games, Commonwealth and Asian Games are held, achievements of the sportspersons upto conclusion of these Games will also be considered

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1. In the past few years, there have been concerted efforts by the Government to recognize and encourage women to participate in all spheres and issues related to women have gained utmost importance and focused attention. "Nari Shakti Puraskars" shall showcase the Government's commitment towards women with the aim of strengthening their position in the society.

2. Nari Shakti Puraskar will also provide an opportunity to Young Indians to understand the contribution of women in building of society and the nation.

3. The awards will inspire the citizens to follow the league of awardees.

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Vayoshreshtha Samman are conferred on eminent senior citizens and Institutions involved in rendering distinguished services for the cause of elderly persons, especially indigent senior citizens. The Awards are given across 13 categories – 07 categories of Institutional type and 06 categories of individual type. 

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The objective of the National Award for Excellence in Vocational Training & Entrepreneurship Development is to honor excellence among Faculty, Trainers and master trainers in the long-term and short-term training spheres as well as entrepreneurship development, who have considerably excelled and achieved outstanding and meritorious performance outcomes, setting benchmarks for others to emulate. 

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a) To promote and motivate the professional competence in the scientific community, including forestry professionals, technical persons and research scholars in the field of forestry.

b) To encorage individuals, farmers, Village Forest Committees, Self-Help Groups, institutions, organizations, NGOs and forest based industries who have contributed in the field of forestry.

c) To recognise practical and applied forestry research-oriented performance which has led to public welfare.

d) To fecilitate person(s) who has made significant contribution towards the cause of forestry.

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To recognize and encourage people which are working for the empowerment of persons with disabilities and persons who are suffering from any disability under Right of Persons with Disabilities Act (2016).

दिव्यांग  व्यक्तियों के अधिकार अधिनियम (2016) के तहत दिव्यांग  व्यक्तियों और किसी भी दिव्यांगता से पीड़ित व्यक्तियों के सशक्तिकरण के लिए काम करने वाले लोगों को मान्यता देना और प्रोत्साहित करना।

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The objective of the award is to empower, recognize and encourage organizations working for the cause of empowerment of persons with disabilities.

इस पुरस्कार का उद्देश्य दिव्यांग व्यक्तियों के सशक्तिकरण के लिए काम करने वाले संगठनों को सशक्त बनाना, मान्यता देना और प्रोत्साहित करना है।

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The Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment is the nodal Ministry for drug demand reduction. It coordinates and monitors all aspects of drug abuse prevention which include assessment of the extent of the problem, preventive action, treatment and rehabilitation of addicts, dissemination of information and public education. The Ministry provides community-based services for the identification, treatment and rehabilitation of addicts through voluntary organizations. In order to recognize the efforts, and, encourage excellence in the Prevention of Alcoholism and Substance (Drugs) Abuse and rehabilitation of its victims, awards will be presented, once in two years starting from the year 2016, for the most effective or outstanding services as individuals as well as institutions in the prevention of abuse of :-

(a) Alcohol;

(b) Narcotic Drugs;

(c) Psychotropic Substances;

(d) Other Addictive Substances (Except tobacco and its products) e.g. cough syrups, correction fluid, etc.

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The purpose of National Awards to Teachers is to celebrate the unique contribution of some of the finest teachers in the country and to honor those teachers who through their commitment and industry have not only improved the quality of school education but also enriched the lives of their students.

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1. Product Process Development and Commercialization: Recognition of outstanding contributions of: scientists/innovators/entrepreneurs/researchers/Indian institutions & companies (public as well as private) for development of new product or process and commercialization of the technology in the areas of Biotechnology.

2. Societal Development: Recognition of outstanding contribution of an individual or a social organization, working at grass-root level for societal development through application of biotechnological interventions in agriculture and allied areas, health care and hygiene for empowering people for lively hood generation, skill development and entrepreneurship for self-employment.

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The objectives of the awards are:

1. To increase competition in various categories of companies to infuse excellence in their CSR activities

2. To encourage companies to spend the entire amount i.e, eligible CSR spend;

3. To recognize the impact, innovation, usage of technology, gender and environment issues, sustainability, scalability, and replicability of CSR activities; and

4. To channelize CSR activities of corporates so that the benefits of their activities reach the marginalized sections of society and in remote areas of the country

Under National CSR Awards there are three main categories as under:-

1. Corporate Awards for Excellence in CSR

2. CSR Awards for CSR in Aspirational Districts/Difficult Terrains

3. CSR Awards for contribution in National Priority Areas

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Objectives of the award are:

i.  To motivate the vaidayas and Ayurveda experts to adopt best practices of Ayurveda in the pursuit of excellence

ii. To encourage excellence through competition

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The National Mineral Awards Scheme was instituted in the year 1966 by the Ministry of Mines, Government of India. The scope of the awards has been expanded and the name changed to National Geoscience Awards (NGA) from 2009.

The objective of the scheme is to honour individuals and teams for extraordinary achievements and outstanding contributions in the field of mineral discovery & exploration, fundamental / applied geosciences, mining and allied areas. 

Broad Disciplines:-

1) Mineral Discovery & Exploration 

2) Mining Technology, Mineral Beneficiation & Sustainable Mineral Development 

3) Basic Geosciences

4) Applied Geosciences

Any citizen of India with significant contribution in any field of earth sciences is eligible for the Award.

There are three categories of awards under National Geoscience Awards:

(i) National Geoscience Award for Lifetime Achievement

(ii) National Geoscience Award and

(iii) National Young Geoscientist Award

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i. To motivate farmers to take up productivity enhancement of indigenous breeds of milch animals in a scientific manner.

ii. To motivate Artificial insemination Technicians to take up 100% AI coverage, under Rashtriya Gokul Mission (RGM)

iii. To motivate Cooperative and Milk producer Companies to grow and to instill competitive spirit.

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This scheme is only for Indian nationals who have made contribution in the field of metallurgy in India through their work in industry, R&D or academia to recognize outstanding contributions in the metallurgical field, covering Operations, Research & Development, Waste Management and Energy Conservation. Individuals from Industry and Research & Academia can apply for the Awards.  The Awards will be given in the following four categories:-

1) Lifetime Achievement Award

2) National Metallurgist Award

3) Young Metallurgist

a) Environment b) Metal Science

4) Award for R&D in Iron & Steel Sector

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The Indian entrepreneurs are very creative to innovate new products and processes as well as provide innovative services to remain competitive in domestic and global market. To encourage such innovative efforts and promote their spirit in larger interest of qualitative development  of MSME, the Ministry of MSME recognizes the contributions of these entrepreneurs for their outstanding performance and motivate and encourage them by conferring awards at the National Level.

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To recognise outstanding startups and enablers in the startup ecosystem that are building innovative products and demonstrating measurable social impact.

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The scheme is introduced for identifying the extraordinary teachers and recognize the excellence / best practices / innovativeness of such teachers in field of technical education at national level for Degree, Diploma institutions, Pharmacy and Management Institutions.

This scheme is aimed to recognize the meritorious faculties on Teacher’s Day i.e., 5 September every year at National level and encourage themto update themselves to the ever-changing needs of higher education at global level and thereby becoming an effective contributor towards the society.

National Technical Teacher’s Award is divided in following categories:

1.Award for Engineering/ Technical faculty members.

2.Award for Management faculty members.

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It was on 11^th May 1998, that India had a prideful accomplishment of successfully conducting Nuclear Missile Test at Indian Army’s Pokhran range. On this day first indigenous aircraft Hansa-3 was test flown at Bangalore and India also conducted successful test firing of the Trishul missile on the same day. Considering all these achievements 11^th, May was chosen to be commemorated as National Technology Day.

To commemorate this day and to forge a powerful partnership with national laboratories and to create knowledge networks with academic institutions, Technology Development Board, under the Aegis of DST instituted a National Technology Award for successful commercialization of indigenous technology by industrial concerns in 1999. Within the same national technology award the second category was introduced in 2000 for SSI units. Later this has been renamed as MSME award. From 2017 onwards, under that same category national technology award for start-up has been introduced to encourage & promote technologies developed by start-ups having potential for commercialization. From 2021 onwards a new category of National Award for Translational Research in science and technology has been introduced. Also, in order to recognize and reward the remarkable work done by startup Incubator, DST has instituted National Award for Technology Business Incubator in 2004.

1. National Technology Award (Main) - for the successful commercialization of indigenous technology. This award will be given to an industrial concern which has successfully developed & commercialized an indigenous technology on or after   April 2017. In case, the technology developer / provider and technology commercializer are two different organizations, each one would be eligible for award of ₹25 Lakh and a trophy.

i. Cash Award of ₹25 Lakh

ii. Number of awards: One

2. National Technology Awards (MSME) – This award will be given to MSMEs which have successfully commercialized a product based on indigenous technology on or after April 2017.

i. Cash Awards of ₹15 Lakh

ii. Number of awards: Three (including one reserved for Women led MSME)

3. National Technology Awards (Start-up) – This award will be given to a technology start-up for promising new technology with potential for commercialization.

i. Cash Awards of ₹15 Lakh

ii. Number of awards: Five (including one reserved for Women-led Start-up)

4. National Technology Awards (Translational Research) – This award is given for outstanding contribution of Scientists in commercializing innovative indigenous technologies. Award amount of Rs 5 Lakh and a trophy.

i. Cash Awards of ₹5 Lakh

ii. Number of awards: Two (one is to be reserved for Translational Research by Women Scientist)

5. National Technology Awards (Technology Business Incubators) - To recognize and reward outstanding contribution in techno-entrepreneurship development by way of promoting innovative technology driven knowledge intensive startup enterprises in different technological areas.

1. Cash Awards of ₹5 Lakh
2. Number of awards: One

The awards will be presented on National Technology Day on 11^th May, 2022.

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The objective of the award is to motivate young persons to achieve excellence in the field of national development or social service and to develop in them a sense of responsibility to the community and thus to improve their own personal potential as good citizens.To give recognition to the outstanding work done by voluntary organizations working with the youth for national development and/or social service.

Desciption of Award:

The award shall be given for identifiable excellent work for youth in the field of development activities and social service such as health, research and innovation, culture, promotion of human rights, arts and literature, tourism, traditional medicine, active citizenship, community service, sports and academic excellent, and smart learning.

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The One District One Product Awards (hereinafter, the 'Award') have been instituted by the Department for the Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT), Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Governmentof India, to acknowledge the extraordinary work done by States/ UTs, Districts,Indian Missions Abroad,E-Commerce platforms and Central Ministries/departments for the economic development of the State and contribute towards the realization of the Hon’ble Prime Minister’s vision of Atmanirbhar Bharat

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Pandit Deendayal Upadhyaya Telecom Excellence Awards (hereinafter, the ‘Award’) have been instituted by Ministry of Communications, Government of India to encourage innovations in telecom sector and stimulate/ inspire Telecom Skill ecosystem by rewarding the successful telecom skilled people and institutions of India annually for their exemplary and outstanding contributions in the areas of Telecom Innovations,Telecom Skilling, Telecom Services, Telecom Manufacturing, Telecom Applications in deploying telecom dependent sectoral solutions for different fields such as agriculture, commerce, health, education etc.

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To felicitate meritorious innovations and inventions in the field of petrochemicals, products, processes and other related areas. The Scheme seeks to improve research and development in the petrochemical sector, leading to more efficient energy consumption, plastic waste management, and development of new products. The Scheme is also intended to enhance innovative capacities to a level of international recognition and to help make the domestic industry globally competitive.

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The Pradhan Mantri Rashtriya Bal Puraskar (PMRBP) is organized to celebrate the energy, determination, ability, zeal and enthusiasm of our children.

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To recognize a special distinguished record or prolonged service, but only when distinguished by very exceptional ability and merit or exhibition of conspicuous devotion to duty.

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The purpose of the Award is to recognize and felicitate individual(s)/ organization(s) who have made a significant impact on society for a sustained period by way of promotion and development of Yoga

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The objective of the award is to encourage and promote involvement of corporate entity (Public/Private), non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in the promotion and development of sports in the country.

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In agricultural sciences, the research leads to contributions in form of new theories, refinement/improvement in present knowledge, processes, tools, machinery, programmes, practices etc. useful for development of new processes, products and technologies. The scientific research and innovations have contributed significantly in ushering an era of Green Revolution (followed by white, blue, yellow and orange revolutions) in India. The Rashtriya Krishi Vigyan Puraskar (RKVP) has, therefore been instituted to be conferred on scientists and other technical personnel in the field of agriculture, agricultural education, Extension and allied sciences.

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NMDC is set up at Mumbai for organizing and coordinating various programmes for celebrations of the National Maritime Day and the Merchant Navy Flag Day and other activities at all major, intermediate and minor ports and other places in India and abroad. The Committee is composed of representatives of Ship-owners, Seafarers and of the Offices of the Directorate General of Shipping, Ministry of Shipping. The Committee secures funds through voluntary contribution from the Ship-owners, Ports authorities, various Semi Government and non-official organization interested in Shipping.

The main objects of the NMDC as listed out in the Memorandum of Association are as under:

1.1. To organize the National Maritime Day Celebrations and the Merchant Navy Flag Day on 5 th April every year at all such ports and such places in India and abroad in such manner as may be decided upon by the Committee from time to time.

1.2. To highlight the role and promote development of the shipping Industry in all its aspects, by diffusion of knowledge and information through publication and /or newspaper, magazine, meetings, seminars, symposium, workshops, exhibition, competitions, etc.

1.2.1. To recognize the services of seafarers and services of any other persons connected in promotion and development and national shipping and other allied matters by way of awards, rewards, scholarship and /or any other manner.

1.2.2. To finalize welfare and training projects for seafarers and for shipping personnel.

1.2.3. To promote publications of educational literature and conduct of research for the benefit of Seafarers and Shipping Industry. 1.3. Generally, to take such measures and do all such acts and things as may be necessary in furtherance of the above objects.

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The objective of the Award is to recognize the notable and inspiring contributions made by the citizens/ institutions/ organizations of India to promote the cause of national unity and integrity and to reinforce the value of a strong and united India.

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Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize For Science and Technology is given in recognition of outstanding Indian work in science and technology.

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To recognize the outstanding contribution made by the individuals in terms of high-quality research work, to improve the system of official statistics in general and to develop innovative methods for solving the problems encountered while undertaking sample surveys, developing data management system, data integration etc. in particular.

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The objectives of the award are:

1. To recognize the achievements of the person in the field of adventure.

2. To encourage young people to develop the spirit of endurance, risk-taking, cooperative teamwork, and quick, ready, and effective reflexes in challenging situations.

3. To provide incentives to the young people for getting exposed to the adventure activities.

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The award is given to the members of Central Investigating Agencies, State/UTs Police Forces and Investigating agencies to recognize of  the outstanding service in Investigation.

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To recognize only those operations, which have degree of planning high significance for the security of the country/State/UT and have significant impact on security of large sections of the society. The award shall be considered for Special Operation in the areas such as counter terrorism, border action, arms control, prevention of narcotics smuggling and rescue operations.

Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC), have brought under consideration of the said prestigious award under the area "Prevention of narcotics smuggling". 

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