ET Awards 2017: The best and the brightest
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A tribute to fine business intellect
Some of the exceptional business minds get honoured as India's business elite gather for the Economic Times Awards for Corporate Excellence, 2017.
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Guests at the show
State Bank of India's former head Arundhati Bhattacharya arrives at ET Awards. She was also on the jury for the awards.
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Socialising time
Himanshu Kapania, head of Idea Cellular, Sunil Mittal, chairman of Bharti Airtel and Sunil Sood, MD of Vodafone India at ET Awards.
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The Vice President arrives
Vice President of India, Venkaiah Naidu, who also gave the keynote address at the ET Awards show, arrives at the Trident.
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Panel members discussing the economy
ICICI MD Chandra Kochhar, Railway Minister Piyush Goyal and Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis discuss how the economy had transformed from the prevailing 'hindu rate of growth' to a higher ratio.
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Ongoing panel discussion
The underlying theme of the discussion was how the Indian economy revived post 1991, after the 'Liberalisation Privatisation Globalisation' reforms.
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Entrepreneur of the year
CEO & Co-founder of OLA cabs, Bhavish Aggarwal, bags the Entrepreneur of the year award.
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Corporate Citizen Of The Year
Education is key to unleash the tremendous potential of the people in India: Sheetal Mehta of Mahindra & Mahindra Group. M&M won the Corporate Citizen Of The Year award.
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Company of the Year
Maruti Suzuki being awarded the Company of the Year award for corporate excellence.
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Lifetime Achievement Award
YC Deveshwar, Chairman of ITC wins ET Lifetime Achievement Award for corporate excellence- he was among the first CEOs to tap India countryside, by way of his unique e-Choupal concept.
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Global Indian of the year
CEO of Fairfax Financial, Prem Watsa is the winner of the Global Indian Award.
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Business Leader of 2017
'Jio is not a business, it is a mission and a passion', said Mukesh Ambani, who won the Business Leader award for corporate excellence.
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Business Reformer of the year
'Most of the FDI reforms were actually low-hanging fruits': FM Arun Jaitley, winner of the Business Reformer award for corporate excellence.
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Post event fraternising
Raj Jain, Sunil Sood, Piyush Pandey, Anand Kripalu and Janmajeya Sinha - last men standing at the dinner.
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At the end of the party
Harsha Raghavan, MD of Prem Watsa's Fairbridge Capital that has invested in Bangalore airport with Madhu Terdal group CFO of GMR which operates Delhi and Hyderabad airports. That's 40% of India's air traffic.