OREANDA-NEWS. April 20, 2011. HPCL has bagged the prestigious SCOPE Gold Trophy Meritorious Award for Corporate Social Responsibility & Responsiveness for the year 2009-10 which was received by Chairman and Managing Director – Shri S. Roy Choudhury and Dir – HR – Dr. V. Vizia Saradhi of HPCL, from Her Excellency The President of India Smt. Pratibha Devisingh Patil

The SCOPE meritorious awards in specialized fields for the year 2009-10 was organised on the occasion of “Public Sector Day” Celebrations, jointly by Department of Public Enterprises(DPE) and Standing Conference of Public Enterprises(SCOPE) in Delhi recently at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi. The Minister for Heavy Industries & Public Enterprises Shri Praful Patel, the Minister of State for Heavy Industries & Public Enterprises Shri A. Sai Prathap, Chairman BRPSE Dr. Nitish Sengupta, Secretary Department of Public Enterprises Shri Bhaskar Chatterjee, Chairman SCOPE Shri Arup Roy Choudhury and Director General SCOPE Dr. U.D. Choubey were also present on the occasion.

The Panel of Judges under the chairmanship of Justice P.N.Bhagwati, former Chief Justive of India with Dr. Abid Hussain, former Ambassador of India to USA, Dr. M. B. Athreya a well-known Management Consultant, Mr .M. A. Pathan, former Chairman, IOC, Mr. C.P.Jain, former CMD, NTPC and Dir.U.D.Choubey, DG, SCOPE and unanimously decided the awards based on evaluation by International Management Institute (IMI).

The evaluation was done on the basic concept and philosophy of the corporate towards CSR, enunciation and documentation of the policy, involvement of employees at all levels of the corporate in the CSR initiative, consistency and perseverance in the effort till the last intended beneficiary is touched. Weightage was also given to the major CSR projects, size, complexities involved, scheme, details;, major beneficiaries, execution and monitoring, impact assessment, beneficiary feedback etc.