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Sitaram Jaipuria Foundation Medical & Healthcare Excellence Awards
Sitaram Jaipuria
Foundation
Medical & Healthcare
Excellence Awards 2026
Celebrating Life Savers
Registrations closed!
Celebrating the Birth Centenary of Shri Sitaram Jaipuria
The Sitaram Jaipuria Foundation marks 100 years of the legacy of Late Shri Sitaram Jaipuria, an eminent industrialist, respected parliamentarian, philanthropist, and humanitarian who led a life defined by service. As Chairman of the Swadeshi Group of Companies, including Swadeshi Cotton Mills and Swadeshi Polytex, and as an Independent Member of Parliament in the Rajya Sabha from Uttar Pradesh (1962–1974), he made lasting contributions to India’s industrial growth and public life.
His deep commitment to education, healthcare, and social welfare is reflected in the institutions he established across the country. This centenary year honours a legacy rooted in compassion, principled leadership, and an enduring dedication to the well-being of society.
The Awards
SJF Medical Awards 2nd Edition
About Awards
Celebrating Life Savers
The medical profession has always been called “The Nobel Profession” and rightfully so. Through times of pain and illness we turn with faith to these practitioners of medicine to comfort and cure us. And they work day in and day out to help us. For them, work never ends.
The demands on these doctors are physical, mental and emotional.
Never were they more put to test as they were, in the last few years when we collectively battled the pandemic. How many doctors put their own lives at risk to try and save the many who were dealing with a mysterious illness?
Ashok Jaipuria, Chairman of Cosmo First Limited recognizing the invaluable services of the medical fraternity has now set up an annual award program to honour and infer recognition for the services of these brave hearts. Sitaram Jaipuria Medical & Healthcare Excellence Awards have been created with a deep sense of respect. It aims to shine a light on the many doctors who are our backbone and safe harbour. The awards are the first of its kind to be set up in India.
The awards will equally encompass practitioners in rural and urban areas. Many a time doctors in far flung places are unsung heroes. They too must be seen.
The awards will be fully funded by Ashok Jaipuria & family and their associate enterprises for the first five years. From there, the awards will evolve and expand.
Sitaram Jaipuria Medical and Healthcare Excellence Awards are an effort that is inclusive and objective. And hopefully will play an important role in spotlighting talent and innovators.
"We grow by giving and sharing"
- LATE SHRI SITARAM JAIPURIA
LATE SHRI SITARAM JAIPURIA
Sitaram Ji was an industrialist, a distinguished parliamentarian, a philanthropist and an outstanding humanitarian who led an exemplary and inspirational life. He was the Chairman of Swadeshi group of companies including Swadeshi Cotton Mills, Swadeshi Polytex etc. He represented Uttar Pradesh as an independent Member of Parliament in the Rajya Sabha from 1962 to 1974. He set up a college in Kolkata, schools in Kanpur and Ghaziabad, an eye hospital in Navalgarh and Dharmshalas in Haridwar, Varanasi, Vrindavan, Chitrakoot etc. providing hygienic, comfortable and affordable stay to the pilgrims. He was also the Grand Master of Freemason Grand Lodge of India.
3rd Edition
Award Categories
Excellence in Medicine and Healthcare Award
This award aims at honouring an individual who has made and continues to make an outstanding contribution to improving clinical care and fostering innovations in India. Award Amount: INR 50 Lakhs Apply Now
Emerging Young Leader in Medicine and Healthcare Award
This award aims at honouring a young individual (< 45 years) who has made and continues to make an outstanding contribution to medicine and research in India. Award Amount: INR 10 Lakhs Apply Now
Exemplary Leadership in Rural Medicine and Healthcare Award
This award aims at honouring an individual who has made and continues to make an outstanding contribution to furthering wellness and healthcare quality, accessibility and affordability in rural/hard-to-reach/tribal areas in India. Award Amount: INR 10 Lakhs Apply Now
Smt. Gayatri Jaipuria Women's Medicine and Healthcare Excellence Award
This award aims at honouring women who have made seminal contributions to the field of medicine and is a source of inspiration to doctors across the country. Award Amount: INR 10 Lakhs Apply Now
Shri Ashwini Kumar Award for Healthcare Excellence in Diabetes and Obesity Care*
This award aims at honouring an individual who has made outstanding contributions to medicine and healthcare in India over their lifetime. Award Amount: INR 10 Lakhs *By Nominations Only
Shaping Medical Excellence
Governing Council
Chairman & Managing Director
Cosmo First Limited
Cosmo First Limited
Chancellor and Director
Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences
Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences
President-Elect, World Heart Federation,
Executive Director of Centre for Chronic Disease Control
Executive Director of Centre for Chronic Disease Control
Director, Cosmo First Limited
Managing Trustee, Cosmo Foundation and Zigly Foundation
Managing Trustee, Cosmo Foundation and Zigly Foundation
Executive Director
The INCLEN Trust International
The INCLEN Trust International
Nominations open for one of India's most notable awards in Medical and Healthcare Excellence
Shaping Medical Excellence
Jury Members
Head of Department
Endocrinology and Metabolism, AIIMS, New Delhi
Endocrinology and Metabolism, AIIMS, New Delhi
President-Elect, World Heart Federation,
Executive Director of Centre for Chronic Disease Control
Executive Director of Centre for Chronic Disease Control
Director
National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences
National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences
Group Head
Medical Services & Chief Consultant Haematology & BMT of Apollo Cancer Centre
Medical Services & Chief Consultant Haematology & BMT of Apollo Cancer Centre
Chairman and Managing Director,
Rela Hospital
Rela Hospital
Founder & Chief Radiologist
Mahajan Imaging
Mahajan Imaging
Director, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Science and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala & Former Head of Department of Neurosurgery, SGPGI, Lucknow
Associates
