OREANDA-NEWS. May 22, 2012. HPCL has bagged the prestigious SCOPE Award for Corporate Social Responsibility & Responsiveness Commendation Certificate for the year 2010-11 which was received by Chairman and Managing Director of HPCL Shri S. Roy Choudhury from Her Excellency The President of India Smt. Pratibha Devisingh Patil

The function for the SCOPE meritorious awards in specialized fields for the year 2010-11 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, Chairman BRPSE Dr. Nitish Sengupta, Secretary Department of Public Enterprises Shri O. P. Rawat, Chairman SCOPE Shri Arup Roy Choudhury and Director General SCOPE Dr. U.D. Choubey were present on the occasion.

The strong panel of Judges was chaired by Justice P.N.Bhagwati (former Chief Justice of India), Dr.Abid Hussain, former Civil Servant and Diplomat; Dr.M.B.Athreya, Renowned Management Consultant; Mr.M.A.Pathan, former Chairman, Indian Oil Corporation Limited; Mr.C.P.Jain, former Chairman NTPC and SCOPE and Dr.U.D.Choubey, DG, SCOPE unanimously decided the awards based on evaluation of record entries numbering 110 this year made by world renowned Consultant, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Private Limited.

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.