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Manipal Cure and Care Wins the Golden Peacock Innovation Award

Manipal Cure and Care [MCC], has won the prestigious Golden Peacock Innovation Award 2008 for its contribution to health and wellness sector through innovation. The Award was conferred to Manipal Care and Cure by Baroness Fhreela Flather, House of Lords and Dr Ola Ullsten, Prime Minister of Sweden, in London. This year MCC had tough competition. A total of 353 applications were received by GP Secretariat, out of which 126 were short-listed, after critical scrutiny for final selection through three-tier assessment process. The Golden Peacock Awards are considered as the holy grail of corporate excellence and its guidelines provide a checklist for improvement and self-assessment in areas of quality, innovation, training, governance, environment management and corporate social responsibility. On being felicitated by the Golden Peacock Award, Somnath Das, COO, Manipal Cure and Care said, "Innovation is an on going process and the survival of any business concept rests on continuous innovation that impacts customer experience. Last year we had won the Golden Peacock award for Innovative Product/Service - 2007. This year's award reiterates the commitment we made to ourselves and our customers to give them the best." The awards jury was headed by Justice PN Bhagwati, former Chief Justice of India and Member UN Human Rights Commission and other Jury members include Justice MN Venkatchaliah, former Chief Justice of India; Dr Olivier Giscard d'Estaing, Founder Chairman, INSEAD, France; Dr SZ Qasim, Former Member Planning Commission; Dr VK Agnihotri, Former Secretary, Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs and Vinod Dhall, Chairman, Competition Commission of India along with many others.

EH News Bureau