Bank of India presents India\'s Top SME 100 Awards 2014

Bank of India presented the second edition of  India's TOP SME 100 AWARDS 2014 organised by India SME Forum on 2^nd August in the presence of Hon’ble speaker of Lok Sabha Sumitra Mahajan and Hon’ble Union Minister of  MSME Kalraj Mishra.

Jury member Vijayalakshmi R. Iyer, Chairperson and Managing Director, Bank of India, said, “The India’s Top SME 100 awards are aimed at celebrating India’s top performing SMEs, marketing the capabilities of the winning SME’s to regional and global investors, providing opportunities for SMEs to network and raise capital and identifying a continuous and sustainable pipeline of SME’s for a potential secondary listing of SME’s (IPO) that can attract equity capital for growth. In line with the strategy of India SME Forum to propel the SME Movement by nurturing entrepreneurship and support innovative globally competitive SMEs in India: the India SME 100 Ranking will act as catalyst to identify and recognize such SMEs for eventually large global oriented companies. The Awards also hope to inspire, willing and able SMEs that have the potential to be the world class enterprises and offer them the platform to promote themselves to investors and partners top sustain growth.”

Out of the 63,819 nominations, The Top 100 SMEs were selected through a rigorous process on the basis of both financial and non-financial indicators. While the financial indicators of Growth, Performance and Financial strength were keenly evaluated, balanced emphasis was given to the non-financial indicators covering Innovation, International Outlook, People Capital and Corporate Governance.

Winners Break Up

NB – Out of the TOP 100 6 were women entrepreneurs

The jury members for Bank of India presents Top 100 SME’s of India were as follows -

• Vijayalakshmi Iyer, CMD of Bank of India
• Tilak Raj Bajalia, Ex DMD, SIDBI
• Dr JS Juneja, Ex CMD- NSIC and Chairman, Global Projects & Services (P) Ltd.
• Prahlad Kakkar AD & Brand Guru, 
• K. V. Srinivasan, CEO, Reliance Commercial Finance, 
• Vinod Kumar, Country Manager & Senior Partner - India, Middle East & UK, SDRC, 
• Rajesh Chakrabarti, Chief Marketing & Innovation Officer, Reliance Commercial Finance,
• Parag Patki, Ex-CEO SMERA Ratings Ltd.
• Ajay Thakur, Head - BSE SME
• Amisha Vora, MD Prabhudas Lilladher Group
• Hemendra Mathur, MD SEAF Investment Advisors
• Radha Nath Kar, GM SME, Bank of India
• Rajesh Dubey, 
• Ravinder Bhan, Partner, TPS Worldwide E-Learing, Dubai
• Anirban Chatterjee, MD Anircorp

The event which brought  the best of the entrepreneurs , industry leaders and mentors at one place proved to be a great networking opportunity for the winners as well as Industry and Government .During the course of the event  SME’s also presented their charter of demands to Kalraj Mishra, who promised to look into the issues in coming months .