Mother India Care, a national level public charitable trust is encouraging excellence and has instituted the most prestigious award i.e. Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam Memorial Excellence Award.

This prestigious award will be given to all those exceptional individuals who have contributed to the society, organization, and nation with their distinguished services and most outstanding work and achievements in any field. The award will also be presented to Good Samaritans those who have helped road traffic accident victims. The award constitute a citation & special memento.  

• Work-related achievements - the practice of engineering, health, environment, fashion, designer, IT, food, manufacturing, or any industry or profession, sports, education, research, performing well in the organization at any level, etc.

• Service to the profession - public education and creating awareness of the professional role, engineering and professional engineers in Indian Society; active participation in engineering associations, societies, institutions, in the field of health, safety, environment and others etc.

• Service to society and the community beyond the nominee’s regular employment - volunteer work in the community, including service clubs and charitable organizations; participation in commissions, boards, task groups, etc.; participation in governance (municipal, state or central ) as an elected or appointed official; improvement of the physical and/or social environment through engineering and other works.

SELECTION PROCESS

You will receive a written acknowledgment that your nomination package has been received. Please note that a nomination must not be revealed to a candidate before its consideration by the jury panel .

The Awards Committee will review all nominations carefully. Each nomination will be rated and ranked with all other nominations, based on the selection criteria.

Please ensure your nomination package demonstrates contributions in the selection criteria of the appropriate award category.

Once the Awards Committee has made its final selection, a recommendation will be made to the MIC Board. The recommendations and subsequent decisions will remain confidential until the chosen awardees are notified by the board of MIC . The MIC president can select the awardee directly if the nomination and recommendation is made by VVIP or distinguished dignitaries or more than two reputed organizations for a same nominee.

Following this process, you will be notified as to the success of your nomination. Nominations not selected will be retained for one year and reconsidered in the following year’s awards program on request of the lead nominator.

To increase your chances of success, nominators are encouraged to update the package. Further material may be added to nomination packages at that time. If your nomination is successful, it is anticipated that you, the other nominators and the awardee will wish to attend the presentation ceremony and dinner, and invitations will be sent to you.

Nominations may be submitted at any time during the year. Awards presentations are made on an annual basis.

Nomination deadline is 12.59 pm on 15^th Oct 2018.

Nominations submitted after the deadline will not be considered for that year’s awards program, but may be reconsidered upon request of the lead nominator with or without changes before the deadline for the following year’s program.