NJA 2024 - Terms & Conditions

• The Jewellery Fraternity (including Retailers, Wholesalers, Manufacturers, e-commerce entities, Designers, and Goldsmiths) across India can apply for the National Jewellery Awards 2024.
• Jewellery must be 100% manufactured in India to participate in the National Jewellery Awards 2024.
• Designs/Jewellery manufactured post September 01, 2023, are eligible to participate in the awards. Entries not complying with these rules will be disqualified.
• “Winners and finalists of the previous edition cannot participate in the Awards with the same jewellery piece/set.”
• Jewellery design/ pieces or stores or marketing initiative for jewellery promotion recognised in any other jewellery awards held in the Last one year i.e. from September 01, 2023, onwards, will not be eligible to apply for national jewellery award and will be disqualified from the awards. This will be identified on best effort basis and will be highlighted to the NJA management for further action.
• Finalists in the Jewellery Award segment must provide a self-declaration form stating the quality of the jewellery piece submitted for the awards. The draft document will be shared by the audit team post the announcement of the same. They may also choose to submit a hallmark certificate however it is not a mandatory document.
• In case the information provided in the declaration is found to be untrue, the entry will be disqualified, and the participant may be blacklisted from future NJA awards at the management's discretion.
• Finalists for each category under the Jewellery segment will undergo lab testing organized by the NJA committee to certify the genuineness of the piece. Finalists may choose to submit an existing certificate to authenticate the jewellery piece. The cost incurred for lab testing shall be borne by the finalists.
• It is explicitly understood that the entry details are approved and overseen by the owner/partner/director of the participating company.
• At the time of submitting the application, please ensure that you have provided all the necessary details. Please make a note that incomplete applications will not be accepted.
• All supporting materials where necessary should be specifically attached with the entries.
• Application fees are non-refundable.
• Kindly issue the Cheque, Demand Draft, NEFT, or RTGS in favour of "All India Gem & Jewellery Domestic Council."
• Discounts are applicable on the number of entries in your cart (i.e. 5 entries and above) and not applicable on any back dated invoices. For example, on June 20, 2024, you have successfully paid for 3 entries and subsequently, you also apply for 4 more entries, in this scenario the discounts will not be applicable. GST applicable over and above.
• In case of a dispute regarding a jewellery design, the participant must prove ownership of the design. The decision of the jury and NJA committee will be final and binding.
• The third-party process auditor shall monitor the process of NJA 2024 Awards.
• Participants are requested to cooperate with the NJA Awards committee on deadlines for submission of materials/jewellery for smooth operations.
• The jury NJA 2024 shall have the final authority in determining the winner of the awards., the decision of the jury shall be final, conclusive and binding, the winner or any other person shall have no legal or any other writes to contest or dispute the decision of the jury.
• GJC (Gem & Jewellery Council) shall not be legally liable for any property/personal damage/loss arising for any reason whatsoever regarding the National Jewellery Awards 2024.
• Please submit photographs of finished jewellery or sketches only.
• One Jewellery piece/set/pair/ design can participate in one category only. In case jury comes across same design submitted in multiple categories as a finalist only one entry will be considered for the grand jury round based on their discretion
• The award categories may be changed/modified/split/merged/increased or cancelled by the Jury based on the number and quality of entries received in each category. Awards management/jury may apply minimum caps for categories to maintain high standards of awards. This is at the discretion of award management / jury, and this cannot be contested in any manner.
• In the event no participant in a category is found worthy of winning, the award category may be cancelled by the Jury. The decision of the Jury in this regard will be final and non-contestable.
• The Awards management will not entertain any queries in this regard.
  • The jewellery applied for the Awards should be commercially available
  • Meet the category requirements (General and Specific) for each category in which it is entered.
  • The category requirement is set forth in the brochure.
  • In any stage it is found that the jewellery design submitted is not original and has been copied/used from other designs, the entry will be disqualified from the awards based on the jury's discretion.By submitting your entry, you grant the organizer the right and license to reproduce, publish, distribute, and display your entry materials in any of its publications in all media and advertising, and represent and warrant:
  • That the work depicted in your entry is your own original creation. That organizer’s use and publication of your entry materials will not infringe upon or otherwise violate any copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret, or other intellectual property right, any right of publicity, privacy, or other personal right or any law, rule, or regulation.
  • That the information provided on your payment from and entry from is accurate and complete.
  • That you have obtained all necessary license and releases from persons depicted in, ar involved in creating (including photographers), your entry materials and listed on your entry form so that organizer will not incur any obligation or liability to them based upon its use or publication of your entry materials.
  • Entry materials (other than actual jewellery pieces) will not be returned.
  • Organizer is not liable for lost, stolen, illegible, misdirected, damaged, or mutilated entries. Entry fee is non-refundable and will not be returned (even if your entry is determined to be ineligible or disqualified) unless competition is cancelled or postponed by organizer.
  • Organizer reserves the right to cancel or postpone all or portions of the competition for any or no reasons. If you have submitted an entry for a cancelled or postponed portion of the competition, organizer will refund your entry fee for that entry within thirty days of any decision to cancel or postpone, (and the licenses granted by you to organizer under these rules for the attached entries will terminate. In addition, organizer reserves the right to combine selected categories
  • The finalists & winners will be required to sign and return an affidavit of eligibility and publicity/liability release within 2 days of notification or may be disqualified.
  • Taxes and other expenses on the awards are the responsibility of the winners.
  • By entering, each entrant accepts and agrees to be bound by these Official Rules and by the decisions of Organizers, which are final on all matters regarding these Awards.
  • Participation in the awards is subject to defined Terms & Conditions.

If the awards category consists of jewellery sets/pieces, participants must first submit a picture of the entire jewellery set. Only after this can individual piece images be uploaded. If a participant fails to upload the picture of the entire jewellery set and only uploads individual piece images, the entry will not be accepted and will be disqualified from the awards.