Jet Airways chief Naresh Goyal wins BML Munjal award

Jet Airways swears by innovation, quality of service

BY A CORRESPONDENT
7th January 2006

Jet Airways chairman Naresh Goyal has won the BML Munjal Award for Excellence in Learning & Development in the Private Sector category. Naresh Goyal received the award, along with a citation, from Union Minister for Civil Aviation Praful Patel at Hotel Maurya Sheraton, New Delhi yesterday, Jet Airways said in a press release. The Awards ceremony was organized as part of Hero Mindmine Institute’s Summit on “Emerging Business Challenges: Search for Winning Responses.”

The jury which selected Naresh Goyal was headed by HDFC chairman Deepak Parekh. Other jury members included Shobana Bhartia of Hindustan Times, Arun Maria of Boston Consulting Group, Ajay Sriram of, DSCL, Dr Vinayshil Gautam, IIT Delhi, Tarun Das, CII, and Sunil Munjal of Hero Mindmine Institute.

Naresh Goyal said: “I am delighted to receive this Award, on behalf of all my colleagues in Jet Airways, particularly the front line staff who deliver our product and service smilingly often under difficult and stressful situations. For us in Jet Airways, being the first recipient of this prestigious Award is particularly significant and meaningful.”

Jet Airways is the largest private sector airline in India. Though it has lost some of its marketshare to low-cost upstart airlines, Jet Airways is still regarded the private sector airline pioneer which ended the monopoly of government-owned Indian Airlines Ltd. "It is Jet Airways’ efforts at continuous innovation to stay ahead of its competition, its undeterred focus on quality of service and its proactive work towards building a growth oriented, high performance work culture that have been recognized as the noteworthy achievements that this Award lauds," Jet AIrways said in a press release.