Awards in New York!

01 Oct 2011 CW Staff

Every year, India's Most Admired (construction and engineering) Companies are felicitated at the CW Annual Awards. But, this year, the awardees came to ASAPP's infrastructure conference held on September 17, 2011 in New York (under its international ASPIRE brand), to be felicitated before an international audience by Senator Larry Pressler. The companies present and awarded were L&T, Essar Projects, Tata Projects and Lanco.

The selection of India's Most Admired Companies is carried out by CW via a detailed survey comprising thousands of industry respondents. They were asked to vote for companies based on the parameters of performance, project size, corporate governance, corporate social responsibility, etc. And, these stalwarts made the list! Here are the winners in a snapshot…

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