21st Jankidevi BajajPuraskar for Woman Rural Entrepreneur – nominations invited

21st Jankidevi BajajPuraskar for Woman Rural Entrepreneur – nominations invited

Award (Puraskar): Cash award of Rs.3,00,000/-, a citation and a certificate.
Deadline: July 31, 2013.
Organizaion: Indian Merchants’ Chamber (IMC) was set up in 1907 and has an active Ladies Wing which was established in 1966. Initiated as a platform for creating social awareness, it has grown to become a dynamic association for the empowerment of women. The IMC-Ladies’ Wing Jankidevi Bajaj Puraskar was instituted in 1993, the birth centenary of Smt. Jankidevi Bajaj (1893-1979), with the objective of building a close alliance with rural India to promote, support and honour the substantial work being done at grassroots level by entrepreneurs. Since its inception, 20 women have won this award.
Criteria:

• The nominee must be of Indian nationality.
  
• The nominee must be a woman.
  
• She should have made an outstanding contribution to business entrepreneurship by which rural India has benefitted and rural society has improved.
  
• The candidate may not live in rural India/or India
  

Self nominated applications will also be accepted.
Award Ceremony: The Puraskar Presentation function is scheduled in the first week of January 2014 in Mumbai.
Last Date: The nomination details in the required format should reach IMC-Ladies’ Wing office on or before Wednesday July 31, 2013.
Contact: Deputy Director, IMC Ladies’ Wing, IMC Building, Curchgate, Mumbai – 400 020 (Maharashtra).
Tel: (022)-22046633, Ext.130/132/605/627
Email:imcladieswing@gmail.com; ladieswing@imcnet.org.