Since 2013 Prochesta has started awarding the best women entrepreneur of the year in the name of Late Ashok Saikia. Ashok Saikia was 1971 batch IAS officer of the Assam-Meghalaya cadre. Ashok Saikia was a key pointsman in the Prime Minister's Office when Atal Bihari Vajpayee was in charge. He was additional secretary in the PMO, in charge of education, agriculture, and the tricky but all-important task of handling bureaucratic appointments and transfers.

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Because of his honest, no-nonsense approach, Saikia was referred to by many colleagues as the prime minister's conscience keeper.

Late Ashok Saikia helped Prochesta to grow as a self successful organization. To keep his memory alive we started this Ashok Saikia Award.