Awards

Raksha Mantri Awards for Excellence for 2012-13 & 2013-14 Wednesday, the 27th January 2016 at 1500 hr at Dr. D.S. Kothari Auditorium, DRDO Bhawan, New Delhi

Shri Manohar Parrikar, Hon’ble Raksha Mantri gave away Raksha Mantri Awards of Excellence for the years 2012-13 & 2013-14 in recognition of exemplary performance amongst Ordnance Factories and the nine Defence Public Sector Undertakings (DPSUs). The awards are in three major categories, i.e., ‘Institutional Awards’, ‘Best Performing Division/Factory/Shipyard Awards’ and ‘Group/Individual Awards’. Under the Institutional awards, there are two sub-categories for which DPSUs and OFB can compete i.e. overall performance and performance in exports. In the second category, there are three awards; for the best performing division of DPSUs, the best performing factory of OFB and the best performing shipyard. In the third category, there are three sub-categories – one on indigenization, one on design effort and one on innovation for which both OFB and DPSUs can compete.