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The ‘Golden Peacock’ Award is given for excellence in

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Think "Peacock" — India’s national bird — symbolizing pride, excellence, and leadership in governance.
Updated On: Jul 15, 2026
  • Corporate Social Responsibility
  • Energy Savings
  • Literature
  • Corporate Governance
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The Correct Option is D

Approach Solution - 1

The Golden Peacock Award is best known as a recognition for excellence in corporate governance, honouring firms that practise transparent, accountable and ethically sound management.

  1. Corporate Governance: The core theme the Golden Peacock Award is associated with.
  2. Corporate Social Responsibility: A separate, less prominent Golden Peacock category, not the main one.
  3. Energy Savings: Another distinct category, not the flagship award.
  4. Literature: Outside the scope of a business-focused award altogether.

Corporate governance is therefore the field the question is pointing at.

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Approach Solution -2

Reading the question's phrase excellence in closely, it is asking what quality or practice the award actually measures and rewards in a company, which points to a specific one of these four areas.

  1. Corporate Governance: This refers to how a company is directed, controlled and held accountable to its stakeholders, and it is precisely this quality that the Golden Peacock Award's most prominent edition measures and rewards.
  2. Corporate Social Responsibility: This measures a company's social and community contributions, a related but distinct quality from governance practice, and a separate lesser-known Golden Peacock category.
  3. Energy Savings: This measures operational efficiency in energy use, again a different quality from governance and only a secondary award category.
  4. Literature: This has nothing to do with how a company is run or managed, so it is unrelated to what any Golden Peacock category measures.

The quality of transparent, accountable management is what the award's best known edition actually measures.

So the correct answer is Corporate Governance.

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