Nominations are invited for the following categories:

Lifetime Achiever
She is an all round achiever. She is selected for not just what she has achieved at work, but also how she has lived her life. The award recognizes this larger dimension and honours a woman achiever based not just on what she has done for business, but also what she has done for the society. It is a celebration of courage, grit and professionalism

Best Entrepreneur
She should be a proprietor/owner or part of her enterprise, a leader in her industry. A successful businesswoman, she came up with her own original idea and then took it forward into the great unknown. She has done something brand new in her industry and is a role model who embodies the spirit of tremendous enterprise.

Best Professional
A salaried individual, working as an employee of an organisation, she should be a non-promoter of her organisation having significant leadership role and decision-making powers. She has set new precedents in her workplace and has reinvented the organization from inside out. She is an individual who is changing the phase of business through outstanding managerial skills. She will be selected based on the parameters of total-quality professionalism she brings to her work, peer -group recognition, and a reputation for excellence.

Young Achiever
A woman below the age of 35 years having the qualities of any one of the above categories ( 2 and 3) will be considered for nomination under this category.

Global Achiever
An Indian businesswoman who has made her mark internationally.

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Judging Process

After recieving the nominations for the various award categories under fe Women in Business Awards 2005, the entries will be evaluated on the basis of certain pre-decided parameters.

The shortlisted nominations for each category shall then be handed over to the jury.

Out of these shortlisted entries for each category, the jury will decide on the final award winners.

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Terms and Conditions

fe reserves the right to declare an entrant ineligible if, in the reasonable opinion of fe that entrant is considered to
    be unable to represent the awards in a satisfactory manner.

The details of all entrants may be used to promote these and future fe women in business awards, including
    placement of entrant profiles on the fe women in business website.

The jury decision will be final and no correspondence will be entered into. fe accepts no responsibility for
    entry submissions not received by fe for any reason.

All entry submissions are the property of fe. It will not be possible to provide feedback on an entrant's individual
    entry submission. fe in its sole discretion, has the right to alter or cancel, part or all of these awards at any time.

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