Awards & Accolades

Major Awards Over the Years

• Chairman Y C Deveshwar was conferred the Padma Bhushan by the Government of India (2011)
• Chairman Y C Deveshwar was conferred the Global Leadership Award by the US India Business Council of the US Chamber of Commerce (2010)
• The FICCI Outstanding Vision Corporate Triple Impact Award, presented by the Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh (2008)
• The FICCI Award for Outstanding Achievement in Rural and Community Development, presented by the then Finance Minister, Shri Pranab Mukherjee (2010)
• Chairman Y C Deveshwar received the Business Person of the Year Award from UK Trade & Investment (2006)
• Chairman Y C Deveshwar was awarded the SAM/SPG Sustainability Leadership Award in Zurich (2007)
• The National Award for Excellence in Corporate Governance from the Institute of Company Secretaries of India (2007)
• ITC was ranked 2nd among top Indian companies in the first of its kind Standard & Poor Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance ratings (2008)
• ITC ranked 2nd among top companies in India and 7th in Asia in the first of its kind Asian Sustainability Rating released by CSR Asia (2010)
• ITC became the first Indian Company to gain Membership with WWF-GFTN for Responsible Forestry (2010)
• ITC was ranked the world’s 6th largest sustainable value creator among consumer goods companies according to a Report by Boston Consulting Group (2010)
• ITC won the top UNIDO Award at the International Conference on Sharing Innovative Agri Business Solutions at Cairo (2008)
• ITC was conferred the Corporate Social Responsibility Crown Award for Water Practices from UNESCO and Water Digest (2008)
• The Asian CSR Award for Environmental Excellence, given by the Asian Institute of Management (2007)
• ITC was the 1st Indian Company and 2nd in the world to win the Development Gateway Award for its trail-blazing e-Choupal initiative (2005)
• Inaugural World Business Award by UNDP for ITC’s e-Choupal initiative (2004)
• ITC e-Choupal won the Stockholm Challenge Award (2006)
• ITC was rated amongst Asia-Pacific’s 50 biggest listed companies in ‘Asia Fab 50’ by Forbes (2010)
• All ITC’s super premium luxury hotels accorded LEED Platinum certification, making ITC Hotels the ‘Greenest Luxury Hotel Chain in the World’ (2011)
• ITC's Paperboards and Specialty Papers Units at Bhadrachalam, Bollaram, Kovai and Tribeni are FSC® Chain of Custody certified (2011)
• ITC's Unit in Bhadrachalam has been awarded the Forest Stewardship Council® Forest Management certification by the SmartWood Programme of the Rainforest Alliance (2011)