There are different Award categories in the Excellence in Economic Development Award programme , ranging from marketing, strategy and innovation in technology and customer focus, you can choose which aspects of your business you want to get highlighted. Shout your success from the rooftops and show your people how proud of them you are.

Business Excellence Award
This award celebrates the very best in customer service, customer retention and customer relationship management. The award will go to a company that can demonstrate, across all its business practices, that it is truly "customer-focused".

Quality Excellence Award
The EDF Quality Award appropriate for both Private Sector and Public Sector organizations is based on the Indian Framework for Excellence. Hundreds of organizations have been recognized under the EDF Quality Award.

Health Excellence Award
Developed in partnership with Health India, as well as health and wellness professionals from across the country, the Healthy Workplace Award recognizes employers who promote, encourage, support and offer exemplary health-related policies and programs in the workplace.

Education Excellence Award
This prestigious Award is conferred upon the outstanding achievers from all over the country and abroad, who has worked incessantly to promote education through words and deeds, an understanding of responsible citizenship and for the benefit of free society.

Customer Service Excellence Award
The quality of customer service is a key part of any visitor experience. Open to any tourism business that can demonstrate the business benefits from implementing a customer service initiative, the judging panel will be looking in particular at the delivery of the initiative, the customer feedback and monitoring processes used to evaluate service standards, and future plans for enhancing high standards of customer care.

Economic Development Leadership Award
EDF recognizes a professional who has attained outstanding achievement and who has consistently supported the vision and goals of economic development of the country.

Tourism & Hospitality Excellence Award
The Tourism Annual Awards is a new initiative introduced by Economic Development Forum to celebrate excellence and professionalism and to encourage world-class performance in Indian tourism in an increasingly competitive business environment.

The awards have been instituted to give recognition to the travel industry for its outstanding performances, nationally, in various tourism segments and interests and are also based on its revenue earnings, services and facilities.

Entrepreneur of the Year
A major accolade. This award will be won by a truly impressive individual who has contributed to his company, industry sector and the wider community.
This Award will go to the outstanding individual who can best demonstrate exceptional vision and leadership in the establishment and development of an owner-led business. The judges will look for clear identification of the market opportunity, an innovative approach and evidence of strong financial performance in terms of sales and profit growth.

The Economic Development Partnership Award
This award recognizes outstanding and innovative development projects that have significantly enhanced the economic revitalization of distressed communities, states, or regions. Winners represent efforts in which larger private contributions have been added to smaller, vital public commitments Citizen Leadership Award.

This award recognizes a community or business leader, or an individual who is not an economic development practitioner, but who plays a key leadership role.

The Business Leader of the Year Award
This Award is by nomination only, and will go to the outstanding individual who has best demonstrated exceptional leadership and vision. The judges will be looking for evidence of how, under the leadership of the entrant, the organisation has significantly improved performance for its stakeholders - employees, customers, suppliers and shareholders.

The Award for Corporate Sustainability
This Award will go to the organisation that can best demonstrate a company-wide commitment to Corporate Sustainability. The judges will look for evidence of a clearly expressed and widely communicated corporate sustainability strategy with a main focus on actions launched to manage risk prevention from a commercial, environmental, governance and social development perspective above and beyond the requirements set by legislation.