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TCCI Awards for Business Excellence Distributed
Gukul Prasannan
Trivandrum Chamber of Commerce & Industry( TCCI) has honored successful businesspersons with the business excellence awards on 12 June at Trivandrum.
Governor of Kerala, Nikhil Kumar inaugurated the function and presented the awards. Biju Jacob( PTC Group), T Biju Kumar( Mukthi Pharma), Chandrasekharan Nair( Ambadi Tyres), Gireesh Chandran( Sree Padmanabha Theatre), J Hareendran Nair( Pankajakasthuri Herbals), V N Jayasankar( Babas Colour lab), S Manikandan( wholesale dealer, Chalai market), J D Mohan( Sravia Advertising), E M Najeeb( Air Travel Enterprises), P Radhakrishan Nair,
C Chandramohanan TCCI President
P Ganesh Chairman Award committee.
Sudheesh Kumar( Hotel Sea Face), Y Vijayan( Vijaya Press) and S Vijayakumar( Vijayakumar and Easwar Chartered Accountants) are the winners of this award. Special awards were presented to architect Jayachandran( posthumous) and South Indian Bank chairman and managing director V A Joseph.
“ Business excellence award is given to encourage and motivate the business field in Trivandrum since 2010. Last year 26 awards were given and this year there are 13 awards and 2 special awards. TCCI is also planning to take up charity related projects. TCCI is supporting the government in resolving problems like waste management and spreading of disease.”
“ I am happy to state that we had an overwhelming response from the membership and we received all applications on time for scrutiny and further processing. After careful evaluation the committee decided to bestow awards to 13 outstanding businessmen.”
During the inaugural address, Governor insisted that the close interaction between the government and commerce, trade and industries is needed for the development and prosperity of the state.
TCCI president C Chandramohanan presided over the function. INKEL Ltd managing director and chief patron of this year’ s award committee, T Balakrishnan IAS also addressed the function.
The report was presented by award committee chairman P Ganesh. Trivandrum Chamber of Commerce and Industry managing committee member R Sridhar, secretary N Raghuchandran Nair and treasurer Suresh Mathew spoke. www. metromartdaily. com July 2013 29