To motivate the Telecom Skill ecosystem, Pandit Deendayal Upadhyay Telecom Skill Excellence Awards was instituted by Department of Telecommunications (Ministry of Communications) in 2017 with an objective to reward annually, the successful telecom skilled people for their special contributions in the areas of Telecom Skilling, Telecom Services, Telecom Manufacturing, Telecom Applications in deploying telecom dependent sectoral solutions for different fields such as agriculture, commerce, health, education etc.