The Dr J J Irani Award for Education Excellence, named after Dr J J Irani, ex-MD Tata Steel , is awarded to Institutions excelling in education. The first Dr JJ Irani Award for Excellence in Education, was held in 2005 that aimed at bringing about an improvement in the schools of Jamshedpur, by raising the bar of teaching and adopting new learning methods. Some of the recipients of this award are TAPMI, which received it in the 27th year of its establishment, and Welingkar Institute of Management Development and Research which won it in the 30th year of its establishment. CIMP made a remarkable achievement by getting this award only in the 4th year of its establishment. This year(2012) the award has been given to three institutes and CIMP is the only institute in India to have bagged the award.