Golden Peacock Award for Sustainability (GPAS)

General

The Golden Peacock Awards Secretariat has great pleasure in inviting applications for the Golden Peacock Award for Sustainability. The Award Scheme for Sustainability has been instituted to encourage initiatives in promoting sustainable development.

The urgency and magnitude of the risks and threats to our collective sustainability, alongside increasing choices and opportunities, will make transparency about economic, environmental, and social impacts a fundamental component in effective stakeholder relations, investment decisions, and other market relations.

Transparency about the sustainability of organizational activities is of interest to a diverse range of stakeholders, including business, labor, non-governmental organizations, investors, accountants, and others.

The aim of Golden Peacock Award for Sustainability is to stimulate and help organizations to rapidly accelerate the pace of stake-holder oriented improvement process. It is a powerful self-assessment process and a way to build an organizations' brand equity on 'SUSTAINABILITY'. The preparation for the award helps to inspire and align the entire work force, and management functions to this end. The knowledge gained by the organization in describing and self-assessing it's operations would lead to IMPROVED organizational performance in this field.

The objective is to assess the extent of:

1. Responsiveness of organizational strategy to the needs of different stakeholders;
2. Integration of Sustainable Development issues with corporate functioning;
3. Development of innovative partnership models to fulfill social responsibility.
4. AWARD and its Eligible Organizations

The Golden Peacock Award for Sustainability is awarded annually and would be adjudged separately, under various specialized categories.

Every organization – government, corporate or NGO, operating in India is eligible to apply. The following defines the broad specification of sectors:

1. Public Sector Units (PSUs) - Both in Manufacturing and Service Sector

2. Private Sector Organizations - Both in Manufacturing and Service Sector

3.Government/Municipal Organizations Undertakings & Public utility Services.

4.NGOs

The decisive factor for eligibility is that the operations of the applicant described must adequately correspond to the Award criteria, which can be verified at the time of evaluation. The operations of the applicant must be carried out independently; meaning that the scope of activities, responsibilities, authorities, results, etc. are clearly defined and are in line with Global Reporting Initiatives (GRI).

Award Categories

Categories

The Golden Peacock Award for Sustainability may be considered separately, at the discretion of the jury for the following categories of products / services:-

1. Telecommunication / IT Sector

2. Education & Training Sector

3. Pharmaceutical and Health Care Sector

4. Food & Beverages and Agriculture Sector

5. Automobile Sector

6. Energy Sector (Incl renewables)

7. Chemical & Fertilizer Sector

8. Oil and Gas Sector

9. Coal Sector

10. Steel Sector

11. Mining and Metallurgy Sector

12. Cement Sector

13. FMCG & Consumer Appliances Sector

14. Hotel, Travel and Tourism Sector

15. Transportation including Shipping /Aviation

16. Banking Financial and Insurance Sector

17. Entertainment Industry - TV/Film/Music Sector

18. Social Service / NGOs

19. Government Sector

20. Any other Sector, as the jury deems fit.

Awards may also be given in the following categories:-

1. Award for overall winner.
2. Award for Winners.
3. Award for a small and medium enterprises (SMEs)
4. Award may, in addition, be given separately in any of the following areas:

1. Economic Aspects
2. Environment Management Aspects
3. Social Aspects
4. Stakeholder Engagement
5. Combating Climate Change and Carbon Management
6. Social Innovations

Rules & Regulations

• The Award Secretariat reserves the right to alter the Award Scheme.
• The Award Secretariat reserves the right to award more than one trophy each year in each category or also to withhold award if the required standards are not met.
• The Award Secretariat accepts no liability for any loss resulting from the disclosure of information concerning an entry, though all reasonable precautions will be taken to maintain secrecy.
• The Award Secretariat cannot undertake to return documents or supplementary material submitted with an entry.
• Finalist Award applicants may be invited to make a brief presentation to the Jury and/or an assessor may be deputed to confirm or seek clarifications at site.
• The Award Secretariat processes the entries for consideration by the team of assessors, who go through initial screening, team assessment and final review by an eminent Jury.
• The decision of the Award Jury, is final and no appeal or correspondence will be entertained.

Non-Disclosure & Confidentiality

Names of applicants, commentary and scoring information developed during the review and assessment of applications are regarded as proprietary by the GPAS and are kept confidential. Such information is available only to those individuals directly involved in the assessment and administrative process.

GPAS will take all reasonable steps to ensure that applications and information therein are treated in strict confidence. However, in no way can the award committee be held responsible for any loss of confidentiality to a third party. Moreover, the award committee cannot be held liable for any damage(to goods, or persons, financial loss or consequential) incurred through the breach of confidentiality or otherwise by the applicants or any third party.

GPAS reserves the right, prior to or subsequent to the award presentation to publish and make public the salient details of the award winners as a step towards sharing of leadership in the national interest.

Application Fees:

The application fee for Golden Peacock Award for Sustainability is Rs. 39500 to be sent through a Demand Draft in favor of Institute of directors payable at New Delhi-India.

Application

The Application should be submitted either in soft copy through email at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or hard copy with all enclosures by post at the following address (Soft copy in a CD to be enclosed).

Entries should be addressed to:

Director General

Golden Peacock Awards Secretariat
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New Delhi – 110048, India

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