SKOCH Summit 2022 | NMDC Wins two Awards at 80th SKOCH 2022

SKOCH Summit 2022- Relevance for UPSC Exam

GS Paper 2: Governance, Administration and Challenges– Government policies and interventions for development in various sectors and issues arising out of their design and implementation.

The largest iron ore producer in India, the National Mineral Development Corporation (NMDC) awarded one gold and one silver award in the 80^thSKOCH Summit and SKOCH Awards recently conducted by SKOCH, New Delhi.
SKOCH Summit 2022 Theme: The theme for the SKOCH Summit was ‘State of BFSI & PSUs’.

The SKOCH Awards were given to the winners based on-
- The application submitted on their website,
- Presentation to jury followed by three rounds of popular online voting and
- Second round of jury evaluation.
NMDC won-
- The Gold Award in the category of social responsibility for the project ‘Promotion of Technical Education & Skill Development in Dantewada District through NMDC ITI Bhansi’ and
- The Silver Award in the category of digital inclusion for the ‘Project Kalpataru’ for ERP implementation.
NMDC also received the 3 SKOCH –
- Order of Merit Awards for its exemplary efforts in ensuring seamless digitalization in Project Kalpataru,
- for its expansive CSR efforts in promoting technical education and skill development in the remote districts of Dantewada and
- “Project Safety First” in the category Response to COVID.

About: SKOCH Awards were instituted in 2003 with an aim to recognises people, projects and institutions that go the extra mile to make India a better nation.
Categories: The SKOCH Award is presented by the ‘Skoch Group’ for best efforts in-
- Digital, financial and social inclusion
- Governance;
- Inclusive growth;
- Excellence in technology and applications;
- Change management;
- Corporate leadership;
- Corporate governance;
- Citizen service delivery;
- Capacity building;
- Empowerment and other such softer issues.

The primary role of the SKOCH Summit is to act as a bridge between felt needs and policymaking. Most conferences act like echo chambers with all plurality of view being locked out.
At SKOCH summit, it specializes in negotiating with different viewpoints and bringing them to a common minimum agenda based on felt needs on the ground.
Primary research, evaluation by citizens as well as experts and garnering global expertise then become the hallmark of every Summit that returns actionable recommendations and feeds them into the ongoing process of policymaking, planning and development priorities.

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