Seema Gupta, Director POWERGRID Wins 2020 Stevie Awards For Women In Business

Seema Gupta, Director (Operations), Power Grid Corporation of India Limited, a PSU under Ministry of Power, has been named the winner of GOLD Stevie® Award in the LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT- BUSINESS category in the 17^th annual Stevie Awards for Women in Business.

The Stevie Awards for Women in Business honour women executives, entrepreneurs, employees, and the companies they run– worldwide.  The Stevie Awards have been hailed as the world’s premier business awards. For this year, the Gold, Silver, and Bronze Stevie Award winners were determined by the average scores of more than 180 business professionals around the world, working on seven juries. 

The jury, while recommending Seema Gupta’s name for the Award, was all praise for her outstanding lifetime achievements in a key industry usually dominated by men, for demonstrating her leadership caliber by sustained excellence in her area of work and her role in Company’s success. The jury noted that her career and achievements showed dedication and determination and saw her becoming an inspiration and a role model for the women of India in engineering field. The jury also praised POWERGRID, as a well-organized, specialized company with high quality work in its field offering its business services in a very professional way.

The Award would be presented to Mrs. Seema Gupta during a virtual awards ceremony scheduled on December 9, 2020.

This global recognition is yet another achievement in Seema Gupta’s illustrious career. She has been earlier conferred with Special Commendation Award for Outstanding Women Manager in Public Sector Enterprises by the President of India in 2017 and was adjudged as the Best Contributor at the ITOMS 2018 Conference in Malaysia.