The Quality Council of India (QCI) launched the country’s first-of-its-kind laboratory excellence award named after the eminent Professor SK Joshi. This award has been instituted to promote Laboratory Quality and performance improvement in the country. The award has been instituted to ensure the laboratory’s commitment to achieving excellence in providing high precision testing and calibration services in line with the prevalent national/international quality systems legislations, including Health, Safety & Environment.

This award will be open to all currently operational laboratories pertaining to testing, calibration & medical including their proficiency testing providers & reference material producers located in India

Late Prof. S.K. Joshi was a luminary in the field of Science and Academica. Prof. Joshi made a significant contribution to improving scientific research in India by serving as President-INSA, DG-CSIR, Director-NPL and Chairman-NABL. Prof. Joshi was awarded Padma Bhushan, Padma Shri, CV Raman Medal of INSA and several other prestigious awards.

Speaking on the occasion Mr. Adil Zainulbhai, Chairman, QCI, said, “The goal of this award is to locate India's best labs and to demonstrate to the rest of the world that our labs have the highest standards in the world”.

There are three trophies (Gold, Silver, Bronze) in each category of Laboratory (Testing, Medical and Calibration) accompanied with a cash award. The 5 stages of assessment by the Technical Expert Committee (TEC) are Application Document Evaluation, Physical/Virtual Presentation, Site Assessment/Verification, Reference check and Jury evaluation.

There are no application fees for this award. For details please visit www.labexcellenceaward.qcin.org