1. A District Magistrate (DM), includes Deputy Commissioner or District Collector and other similar nomenclature with functions (except ADM, SDM), is an officer of IAS or an officer of respective State Administrative Services, who is the head of the district administration, a coordinating officer among various departments and a connecting link between the public and the government so far as he executes the policies, administers the rules and regulations framed by the Government from time to time.
2. You may nominate your entry (or nominate on the DM’s behalf) in one or more of the following award categories.
| # | Category | No of Awards |
| 1 | Education | 1 |
| 2 | Healthcare | 1 |
| 3 | Swachhata | 1 |
| 4 | Gender & Inclusion | 1 |
| 5 | Social Welfare | 1 |
| 6 | Agriculture | 1 |
| 7 | E-Governance | 1 |
| 8 | Skill Development | 1 |
| 9 | MSME Development | 1 |
| 10 | Start-up & Innovations | 1 |
| 11 | Climate Change & Sustainability | 1 |
| 12 | Water | 1 |
| 13 | Energy | 1 |
| 14 | Urban Governance & Liveability | 1 |
| 15 | Jury Awards | 1 |
3. Entries for “Jury Awards” category could have nominations by the jury and organising committee.
4. Jury reserves the right to modify the category of the nominations received at their discretion.
5. Eligibility criteria for individual category are mentioned in the categories section.
6. The application process is FREE. There is no nomination fee for the awards.
7. District Magistrate or their representatives can nominate projects in as many categories as they want. The same project can be nominated for more than one category (kindly mention the same during the entry). However, in such cases, multiple forms are requested to be filled.
8. The entries would be judged based on the questionnaire provided for each of the category. Please try to provide relevant collateral, detailed write-ups and quantitative results / metrics wherever required to strengthen your nomination. Any relevant Government Orders, newspaper articles, published content or Government press releases may please be attached if available.
9. All questions are mandatory. Incomplete responses are likely to be rejected.
10. The categories of awards shall cover all activities of the respective DMs from the period of 1st April 2024 and 31st March 2026.
11. In case of ongoing initiatives, where substantiative work has been done, the data needs to be provided for the completed phases and the results/ impact analysis of the same.
12. The projects/initiatives would be judged based on information provided in the nomination forms. However, the jury or the organizing team may also nominate entries for category of “Jury Awards”
13. The entries would be short-listed based on the scoring framework developed by PwC, in coherence with the Organising Committee and Jury members.
14. The Organising Committee may contact the respondents in case of any clarification/validation required. The same would be done through a physical meet / telephone call / video conferencing.
15. All decisions on any discrepancy/conflict, selection of winners shall be addressed by the jury members only and its decision will be final and binding.
16. Please reach out to eigawards@indianexpress.com for any queries.