Rohit Kansal, additional secretary, ministry of textiles, GOI, Prajakta Verma, joint secretary, ministry of textiles, GOI, P Sathasivam, retired chief justice of India and S Hari Shankar, chairman, India ITME Society, handed over the award to MS Dadu, chairman of Colorjet Group.

Dadu said, “We are delighted to receive the award in recognition of the valuable contributions that the Colorjet Group India has made in the textile engineering industry. With this award, Colorjet reinforces its technological innovation strength of Colorjet’s R&D department.”

India ITME Society initiated the applications in July 2022, searching for the nation’s hidden gems. Evaluated by a stellar jury that includes the prestigious names of Uday Gill, Updeep Singh, R Anand, Gurudas V Aras, Sanjiv Lathia, Manisha Mathur, Manohar Samuel, Ketan Sanghvi, and Avinash Mayekar.