L. B. Singhal
Director General

Sub: National Awards for Outstanding Export Performance - Selection for 37th Set of Awards of Trophies and Certificate of Merit for the year 2003-04 - Calling of Nominations.

Ministry of Commerce vide letter No.8/1/2004-E&MDA dated 27.9.2004 has invited applications for selection for 37th Set of Awards of Trophies and Certificate of Merit for National Awards for Outstanding Export Performance for the year 2003-04 from EOUs and SEZ Units.

Total number of awards in the form of Trophies are 20. Out of these 20 Awards, 8 will be earmarked/reserved for Small Scale and Cottage Sector. Out of these 8 Awards, 1 (one) will be reserved for Khadi & Village Industries.

One Trophy and one Certificate of Merit to best performing EOUs and SEZ Units in the SSI Sector and Non-SSI Sector each would be awarded based on the undermentioned eligibility criteria:

i. Absolute growth in exports during the year (with minimum exports of Rs.5 crore for SSI and Rs.10 crore for others) - 60% weightage.
ii. Developing new product/new markets - 10% weightage.
iii. Significant success in developing or acquiring international quality standards - 10% weightage.
iv. Success in establishment and promotion of brand image abroad - 20% weightage.

Development Commissioner of each Special Economic Zone shall be the sponsoring authority to nominate best performing EOUs and SEZ Units for consideration under this category. Awards given under this category would be in addition to the Awards these units would be getting in respective product groupings.

Annexure-I summarizes all export items. Categories of exports and sponsoring authorities are given in Annexure-II. A copy of the application form to be used by exporters is given in Annexure-III. Parts I & II of the form are to be filled in by the exporters concerned (nominees) and Part III is to be filled by the Sponsoring Authorities. Instructions for filling up the form by the exporters etc. are given in Annexure-IV. All these annexures are given in the attachement file.

In this regard, Development Commissioner of concerned Special Economic Zone might have already informed to you. We request you to kindly get in touch with the office of Development Commissioner of concerned SEZ in connection with submission of application.

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Annexure-I

Export Award Commodity Grouping on the basis of ITC (HS)

Category-1 Agriculture & Plantation Products

Category-2 Textiles & Textile Products

Category-3 Leather and Leather Products

Category-4 Engineering & Metallurgical Products

Category-5 Electronics and Computer Software Products, IT enabled and related
Services

Category-6 Chemicals, Drugs, Pharmaceuticals & Allied Products

Category-7 Gems & Jewellery

Category-8 Handicrafts

Category-9 Services

Catgegory-10 All other manufactures

Annexure-II

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Annexure-III

FORM OF APPLICATION FOR USE BY EXPORTERS AND SPONSORING AUTHORITIES FOR FURNISHING DETAILS FOR NOMINATION FOR AWARD OF TROPHY/CERTIFICATE OF MERIT FOR OUTSTANDING EXPORT PERFORMANCE FOR THE YEAR 2003-2004 (37^TH SET).

1.   Company background    date              (to be filled by nominee)

1.  Name of the firm and year of  establishment.
2.  Correspondence address, telephone nos., fax nos., e-mail address and local telephone nos., telex nos., fax etc.
3.  Whether the firm is a SSI Unit, please mention registration No. and validity.
4.  Type of award for which applied.
5.  Manufacturing activities of the firm
     i.     Exclusively/substantially for export
     ii.     For domestic market

6.     Export activities of the firm in the field of
     i.     Turnkey projects.
     ii.     Civil construction contracts.
     iii.     Consultancy/management contracts.
     iv.     Capital goods exports.
     v.     Commodity exports.

7. Nature of the organization Public Limited/Private Ltd./Partnership etc.
8. If the firm recognized as Export Houses/Trading Houses/Star Trading Houses?  Please give Recognition No. and validity.
9.   Whether merchant exporter or manufacturer exporter.
10. Registration with Governmental and other agencies with full details:
     i.     FIEO.
     ii.     Reserve Bank of India.
     iii.     Export Promotion Councils
     iv.     DGFT
     v.     DC(SSI)
     vi.     Others
11.       Name of the Sponsoring Authority.
12.     Indicate the commodity group for which the application for award of Trophy/Certificate of Merit has been made.

2.   Performance Data

2.  Firm’s exports during last three years
(i) For the product falling under Commodity Group as in Column (12) above

ii.  Other products exported by the firm

iii.       Total exports of the firm (total of (i) and (ii) above)

3.   Break up of turnover during the last 3 financial years

Countrywise break up of total exports during the last 3 financial years:

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4.Details of nominee’s export promotion efforts during 2003-2004 with reference to the following:
(i)     Whether the firm has been able to make substantial and steady increase in absolute volume of exports

(ii) Whether the firm has been able to make substantial and steady increase in export of non-traditional commodities finished products

(iii)  Development of a new product and exports to new markets known to be difficult for accessibility to Indian goods;
(iv)  Substantial increase in the last three years of exports of service based on large scale input of surplus resources in the country such as manpower;

(v) Execution of turn-key projects abroad or large orders of machinery involving supply or erection on time and without significant cost escalation;
(vi) Demonstrable success in the last 3 years in assisting exports from India of products of small scale industries and cottage industries;
(vii) Significant success in developing or acquiring internationally accepted standards of quality;
(viii) Significant success in establishment/promotion of Indian brands abroad.

5. Details of trade dispute or arbitration proceedings, if any, during last three years (give particulars of party in dispute, commodity, the mediation party and the result).

6.Indicate the year and type of awards received from the Ministry of Commerce, Government of India during the last five years.
           (Signature of the nominee with name, date and stamp)

Annexure-IV

Instructions for filling up proforma:

1. All entries are required to be filled in by typed scripts.
2. Only one application form is to be filled up by the nominee which will be considered for award of Trophy as well as Certificate of Merit on the basis of criteria fulfilled.
3.No entry should be kept blank.  If a column is not applicable or information is not available then mention clearly ‘not applicable’ or nil.
4.Answer should be specific for each query.
5.Each nomination should be sent to DGCI&S, 1, Council House Street, Kolkata through the authorized sponsoring authority.
6.Each nomination should be accompanied with necessary audited certificate in support of claims of export made during last three years.
7.Commodity codes as per ITC(HS) should be given for each commodity exported.
8.Hereafter sponsoring authorities should not give their views in the forwarding letter.  They should make their recommendations in the relevant ‘Recommendation Form’.
9.All entries in the detailed form should be consistent with the information furnished in summary form.
10.The formula for calculating the compound growth is given as under:

2.  Para 12(I) of the amendment of the scheme No.8/2/2000-E&MDA regarding absolute growth is clarified as under:

There should be a minimum growth of Rs.5.00 crore for SSI Section & Rs.10.00 crore for Non-SSI Sector during the year 2003-2004 as compared to the year 2001-2002.  However, in case there is a negative growth during 2001-2002 then this condition for growth shall apply with reference to the year 2000-2001.  The same is explained as under:

(Rs. In crore)

3.  No nomination will be considered unless the forms are properly signed with date and office stamp.

4.  Any application not conforming to the above mentioned instructions is liable to be rejected.

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