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Mangalore, April 18

Corporation Bank has launched ‘Corp Excel 2008’ — the national micro, small and medium entrepreneurs’ excellence awards. A bank release said here that Corp Excel 2008’was formally launched by Mr Mukul Singhal, Joint Secretary, Department of Revenue, Union Ministry of Finance, at Ahmedabad on Friday. All MSMEs (micro, small and medium enterprises), whether customers of the Corporation Bank or not, are eligible to participate. In addition to thi s, mid-corporates with annual turnover exceeding Rs 100 crore are also eligible to participate. The award process is through inviting entries from MSMEs and mid-corporates and selecting the outstanding based on the triple bottom line concept — economic, environmental and social, it said. The bank has short listed on 10 categories for instituting the awards — food and agro-based, textiles and apparels, machine tools and engineering, chemicals, IT and ITES sector, auto components, drugs and pharmaceuticals, plastics and packaging, gems and jewellery, and others (others include transport, hospitality services, healthcare, professional and self-employed, green technology etc). A separate award will be there for micro enterprise and mid-corporate. The last date for receiving applications is on or before June 7. The bank is planning to present the awards to the winners later this year, the release said. More details of the award are available on the bank’s website www.corpbank.in and at knowledge partner’s Web site www.jkshim.ac.in and also at the Corporation Bank branches.

— Our Bureau

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