Dayabhai Lallubhai Shah

13th June 1907 – 3rd May 1999

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A Well-known industrialist, philanthropist and a greatvisionary.

Made tremendous contributions to the Indian Industry ingeneral and the Machine Tool Industry in particular.

His company, “Perfect Machine Tools” (PMT) was apioneering company in the machine tool industry in India.

He was the President of the “Indian Machine ToolManufacturing Association” and “Machine Tool MarketingAssociation of India” for number of years.

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D. L. SHAH

“Made in India” was a passion for Mr. Shah. It was his life’s mission

and objective to ensure that “Made in India” brand gets recognized

and is respected all over the world.

He worked tirelessly and with unwavering determination for

achieving this mission.

It was obvious to Mr. Shah that for his dream of “Made in India” to

be realized, quality, environmental protection and occupational

health & safety will play a very important role in achieving his

dream.

Therefore, he decided to pay particular attention to these aspects

and work very hard in propagating these concepts, throughout his

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During his lifetime he received several awards and honors, some ofwhich are listed below:

Gold Insignia & Citation (highest award given to a Foreigner) of Govt. ofPoland for promotion of Indo-Polish trade.

Austrian Award, given by the Austrian Govt., for promoting Austrianbusiness in India.

Quimpro Platinum Standards Award for Quality Management.

Shiromani Award, conferred by the Shiromani Institute.

‘Bajaj Auto Outstanding Quality Award’, bestowed by NCQM, which waspresented by Mr. R. Venkataraman, Former President of India.

The ‘Ambassador for Quality in India’ Award, of the American Society forQuality Control. This was presented by the U.S. Consul General.

IMC’s ‘Juran Quality Medal’. This was presented by the Prime Minister ofIndia.

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His passion for quality, protection of environment and improved health and safety

for all Indians was so great that he donated all his life’s earnings to the D. L. Shah

Trust that he founded in 1994 in order to ensure that his life’s mission is carried

forward even after he is no more.

D. L. Shah Trust had published a number of books on Quality and had 60,000 copies

of each of these books distributed free-of-charge to organizations, institutions and

quality professionals all over India.

D. L. Shah Trust has instituted National Awards on Quality in association with the

Quality Council of India since 2006 known as the QCI-D.L. Shah National Awards

for Quality. The first set of awards was given in 2006 to the winners by the Hon’ble

President of India Dr. A.P.J Abdul Kalam. The Award ceremony is held in Delhi

every year and these awards are handed over to the winners by one of VVIPs in the

country in the Quality Conclave which is attended by over 700 to 800 Quality

professionals.

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QCI-D.L. Shah Quality Awards

The Awards recognize successful improvement projects in the form of case

studies of an organization that have linked quality initiatives to real term

financial gains and competitiveness. These awards are given after thorough

evaluation of the project(s) by a team of highly qualified and experienced quality

assessors and a jury comprising of senior officials of QCI and D.L. Shah Trust.

The online award process begins in mid March and closes around mid June. The

online application submission are based on set guidelines which screened by QCI

for the next stage. The shortlisted documents are put up to the jury comprising of

a team of assessors for selection of projects for site visits. The organization

selected for site visits are assessed by experts for evidences supporting the case

study. The winning entries are awarded with Platinum, Gold & Silver trophies

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QCI-D. L. SHAH Awards on Quality

(contd..)

The awards are given in following categories :

Public Sector Enterprises Government (General Service)

Large Scale Manufacturing Sector Small & Medium Scale

Manufacturing Units

Hospital / Healthcare Services

(Big)

Hospital / Healthcare Services

(Small)

Drugs & Pharmaceuticals IT / ITES / BPO

Financial Services Education

Infrastructure Printing/Publicity

Services : Misc - Security Research and others

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QCI-D.L Shah Champion Award

Quality Champion Award is an individual level of the Award launched

in 2018 that aims to honour outstanding individuals who have

demonstrated significant contribution in the field of quality (for example

outstanding promotional activities, innovation in approach, promotion,

effective application of quality tools etc.) in any sector.

There are 3 categories of the Award -Platinum, Gold & Silver.

A team of experts from QCI carries out the assessment of the

applications submitted to QCI through online mode. The evaluatin is

done on the basis of a well defined criteria.The final decision pertaining

to the Awards is taken by the Jury, constituted by the NBQP/QCI in

consultation with D.L. Shah Trustees.

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D. L. SHAH TRUST

The Trust had set up D. L. Shah Quality Research Centre in association

with Quality Council of India in New Delhi. The research centre has been

operational since March 2013. It is perhaps the first research centre in the

country on the subject of quality. The focus of the research is on education

and healthcare.

The Trust also publishes two e-journals every fortnight on the 1st and 15th of

every month i.e. Quality Info and Safety Info.

Anyone requiring these journals can send an e-mail to the Trust at

dlshahtrust@yahoo.co.in

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The present Trustees of the D. L. Shah Trust are :

Mr. H. K. Taneja – Former Chief Executive of ‘Indian Register of Shipping’.

Mr. Rohan Shah – An eminent advocate, Sr. Partner of Economic Law Practice.

Mr. Gautam Doshi – Group Managing Director of ‘Reliance Anil Dhirubhai

Ambani’ Group.

Mr. S. M. Pathania – Former Director – General of Police, Maharashtra State.

Mr. K. K. Nohria – Former Chairman & MD of Crompton Greaves Ltd.

Mr. Baldev Raj Arora – Former Managing Director of Wyeth Ltd.

Mr. Gur Sarup – Senior Auditor International Association of Classification

Societies.

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D. L. SHAH TRUST

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION

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