Bank of Baroda has been awarded the 1st position in the Large Corporate Category at the prestigious 14th ISTD Trainer Award (ITA) 2025, organised by the Indian Society for Training & Development (ISTD).
This national-level recognition honours the Bank’s innovative Learning & Development practices, particularly under the SPEED scheme, which focuses on building future-ready capabilities across the organization.
The award was proudly received by Manoj Kumar Bakshi, Deputy General Manager – Strategic HR, along with Dr. Dinesh Kumar, Vikas Srivastava, and Sunil Kumar Batar, whose contributions were instrumental in this achievement.
This recognition reaffirms Bank of Baroda’s commitment to nurturing talent, fostering continuous learning, and driving excellence through people-centric development strategies.
About ISTD Awards
Instituted in 1990, the National Award for “Innovative Training Practices” is one of the most coveted and sought after award to encourage organizations for showcasing their best Training, Learning &
Development practices.
The Innovative Training Practices award strives towards Identifying and
recognizing outstanding performance in various aspects of
implementing innovative Strategies for Learning and Development in
the following categories:
1)Public Sector Undertaking (PSU)
2)Private Organizations (Manufacturing Sector)
3)Services Sector including IT, ITES, Hospitality, Banks, Healthcare
4)Emerging Stars (For start-ups who have been in operations for at least
three years and are not older than 5 years
Educational Institutes / B-schools
5)Pharmaceutical Companies
6)MSME – Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises
About Bank of Baroda
Bank of Baroda (BOB or BoB) is an Indian government Public sector bank headquartered in Vadodara, Gujarat. It is the third largest public sector bank in India after State Bank of India. The Government of India nationalized the Bank of Baroda, along with 13 other major commercial banks of India, on 19 July 1969 and the bank was designated as a profit-making public sector undertaking.
