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ANNUAL REPORT 2015-2016 THE GEM & JEWELLERY EXPORT PROMOTION COUNCIL
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The Gem & Jewellery Export Promotion Council (GJEPC)
hosted the ‘India Gem & Jewellery Awards (IGJA)’ 2015, on
12th March 2016, in the Pink City Jaipur in the presence of Shri
Piyush Goyal, Hon’ble Union Minister of State (Independent
Charge) for Power, Coal, New and Renewable Energy who
graced the occasion as the Chief Guest. Mr Rajpal Singh
Shekhawat, Minister of Urban Development & housing,
Rajasthan Government, Shri Ram Charan Bohra, MP, Jaipur
also graced the occasion as the Presiding Guests.
GJEPC’s IGJA is one of the foremost recognition platforms
for the jewellery sector in India to encourage exports and
award excellence in manufacturing, finance and innovation.
The jury members, who selected the winners were: Smt.
Nirupa Bhatt, Managing Director (India & ME), GIA, Mr.
Ajai Kumar, former CMD, Corporation Bank and Mr. Pawan
Bindal, Director, Dun & Bradstreet.
This year, IGJA was hosted by the eminent Indian Actors
Soha Ali Khan and Javed Jaffrey who ensured to keep the
high energy levels during the entire function.
Few salient features of IGJA 2015 are as follows:
To encourage the young entrepreneurs in the industry and
the digitization campaign, we introduced the Emerging
Entrepreneur of the Year and Best in Gems & Jewellery E-
Commerce category respectively, this year.
Special award categories such as Life time achievement,
Importer of the year continued this year as well. The award
for Business facilitating banks was realigned based on the
present support and activities. The category of Clearing
Agent/ Freight Forwarder of the Year was introduced to
appreciate and acknowledge the support of such agencies.
Dun & Bradstreet Information Services India P Ltd continued
to be the Knowledge Partner for 3rd time in a row, who
developed a proprietary quantitative model to shortlist the
nominations based primarily on computation of composite
scores calculated by considering various financial and
quantitative indicators which was followed by selection of
award winners by the eminent jury panel.
The total number of nominations received (including banks &
agencies supplying gold) increased to 362 in 2015 from 272
in 2014, an increase of 90 applicants.
The number of nominations per company in 2015 stood at
2.31, as compared to 2.75 in 2014.
100 new unique companies sent their nominations towards
IGJA 2015
GJEPC used this platform to honor the services of its
employees who completed 25 and 35 years of continuous
services with the Council.
IGJA 2015 was telecasted on CNBC TV 18 on 2nd and 3rd
April 2016.
For winner list please refer Annuxure 2
INDIA GEM & JEWELLERY AWARDS 2015
