1.       Manufacturing Sector

• The Scheme is open to both NSC Members and Non-Members Industrial Organisations registered under the Factories Act 1948. For Member industries, there should not be any arrears of membership subscription on the date of Application.  
  
  

• An individual undertaking will be disqualified, if it has been convicted for any contravention with regard to any health and safety provision under the Factories Act or the Rules framed there under as well as the Environment (Protection) Act, the Water (Prevention & Control of pollution) Act 1974 and the Air (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act 1981 and the Rules framed there-under during the previous year of the Award Year.

 
2.      Construction Sector

• The Scheme is applicable for Construction Companies, Proprietary or Partnership Firms and Companies Executing Construction Projects.
  

• The Scheme is open to any establishment of a company in the construction sector registered under the Building and Other Construction Workers' (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service) Act, 1996 or obtained licence under the Contract Labour (Regulation and Abolition) Act, 1970.

• The Applicant necessarily should have during assessment period employed 100 or more building workers and the Project Activity should have continued for at least 240 days.

 
3.         Best NSC Chapter Awards

             Open to all Chapters.

             The Chapters are grouped into three categories as follows -