BIS
QUALITY AWARDS TO BE PRESENTED ON APRIL 24
The prestigious Rajiv Gandhi National
Quality Awards, for the year 2000 will be presented by Shri Shanta
Kumar, Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution
at New Delhi on April 24, 2002. These awards have been instituted
by the Bureau of Indian Standards to promote quality in the country.
The RGNQ Awards have been designed
by BIS to be in line with similar awards of advanced countries
like the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, USA; Deming
Prize in Japan and the European Quality Award. It is based on
the Total Quality Management model. The writers are selected by
the National Awards Committee chaired by the Secretary, Department
of Consumer Affairs.
The scheme provides four separate
awards for large scale manufacturing units, small scale manufacturing
units, service sector and the BEST OF ALL Award; Commendation
Certificates are presented to small and large units in different
sectors like Metallurgical, Electrical, Electronics,Chemicals,
Food, Drugs and Textile. These commendation certificate are meant
to recognise organization’s efforts/ achievements and are not
exactly at par with the four main awards which are given for achieving
high excellence. In the event of non-availability of suitable
applicant organizations as per assessment criteria decided by
the National Awards Committee (NAC), any of the above awards/commendation
certificates may not be given.
