1. All the members of Eastern Zonal Branch Indian Psychiatric Society shall be eligible to complete for the award.

2. The award will be for the best paper presented in the Annual Conference of Eastern Zonal Branch IPS for this award.

3. The intending competitors will have to apply to the Chairman, Award sub-committee to be submitted by email by a deadline to be fixed up by the Executive Committee of Eastern Zonal Branch Indian Psychiatric Society.

4. There should normally be a gap of 45 days between the last date so fixed up and the corresponding Conference.

5. The first page of the text should contain only the title of the paper, names of author and authors if any, and the place of research. These particulars except the title should not be reflected anywhere else in the paper. The Chairman of the Award sub-committee will detach the first page and forward the remaining text to the Judges.

6. The evaluation of the papers will be in two parts:
a) Written Text 75 marks.
b) Oral Presentation 25 marks.

7. The evaluation of the written text will be by three judges as decided by the Award Sub-Committee. Each of the judges will evaluate the paper out of 25 marks and communicate the result to the Chairman confidentially. The sum total of the marks awarded by the three judges will form the written text marks in respect of the paper.

8. In theoretical evaluation of the Review, Objective, Methodology, Presentation of data and Discussion there on will be adjudged.

9. The best three papers of the evaluation of written text will be considered for oral presentation in the Conference of Indian Psychiatric Society, Eastern Zonal Branch. In case of tie, it will be decided by further comparative evaluation by the Chairman, Award Sub-Committee.

10. The Chairman, Award Sub-Committee will communicate to the selected authors about the date and time of presentation under intimation to Organizing Secretary of the corresponding conference.

11. The oral presentation of the selected three papers will be adjudged by three judges appointed for the purpose, by the Chairman, Award Sub-Committee from among those attending the Annual Conference; he can forward the result of written text evaluation confidentially to the Organizing Secretary who would act on his behalf.

12. The oral presentation has to be made by the author or one of the authors all of whom must be members of IPS, Eastern Zonal Branch. Time allowed for presentation will be 8 minutes to be followed by 2 minutes for discussion.

13. All the three judges of oral presentation will evaluate out of a total of 25 marks and the average will be taken for consideration. The awardee will be decided in the basis of total of written and oral evaluation.

14. All the papers so presented will be eligible for BPSS award but for this only, the evaluation of Oral presentation will be considered.