Padmavibhushan for Pawar, Yeshudas

25-January-2017 17:31 IST

Padma Awards 2017 announced

Padma Awards - one of the highest civilian Awards of the country, are conferred in three categories, namely, Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan and Padma Shri. The Awards are given in various disciplines/ fields of activities, viz.- art, social work, public affairs, science and engineering, trade and industry, medicine, literature and education, sports, civil service, etc. ‘Padma Vibhushan’ is awarded for exceptional and distinguished service; ‘Padma Bhushan’ for distinguished service of high order and ‘Padma Shri’ for distinguished service in any field. The awards are announced on the occasion of Republic Day every year.

            These awards are conferred by the President of India at ceremonial functions which are held at Rashtrapati Bhawan usually around March/ April every year. This year the President of India has approved conferment of Padma Awards to 89 persons as per the list below. The list comprises of 7 Padma Vibhushan, 7 Padma Bhushan and 75 Padma Shri Awardees.  19 of the awardees are women and the list also includes 5 persons from the category of foreigners, NRIs, PIOs and 6 Posthumous awardees.

PADMA VIBHUSHAN

Sl. No	Name	Field	State
1.	Shri K J Yesudas	Art-Music	Kerala
2.	Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev	Others-Spiritualism	Tamil Nadu
3.	Shri Sharad Pawar	Public Affairs	Maharashtra
4.	Shri Murli Manohar Joshi	Public Affairs	Uttar Pradesh
5.	Prof. Udipi Ramachandra Rao	Science & Engineering	Karnataka
6.	Late Shri Sunder Lal Patwa (Posthumous)	Public Affairs	Madhya Pradesh
7.	Late Shri PA Sangma (Posthumous)	Public Affairs	Meghalaya

Padma Bhushan

Sl. No.	Name	Field	State
8.	Shri Vishwa Mohan Bhatt	Art-Music	Rajasthan
9.	Prof. (Dr.) Devi Prasad Dwivedi	Literature & Education	Uttar Pradesh
10.	Shri Tehemton Udwadia	Medicine	Maharashtra
11.	Shri Ratna Sundar Maharaj	Others-Spiritualism	Gujarat
12.	Swami Niranjana Nanda Saraswati	Others-Yoga	Bihar
13.	H.R.H. Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn (Foreigner)	Literature & Education	Thailand
14.	Late Shri Cho Ramaswamy (Posthumous)	Literature & Education –Journalism	Tamil Nadu

           

Padma Shri 

Sl. No	Name	Field	State
15.	Smt. Basanti Bisht	Art-Music	Uttarakhand
16.	Shri Chemanchery Kunhiraman Nair	Art-Dance	Kerala
17.	Smt. Aruna Mohanty	Art-Dance	Odisha
18.	Smt. Bharathi Vishnuvardhan	Art-Cinema	Karnataka
19.	Shri Sadhu Meher	Art-Cinema	Odisha
20.	Shri T K Murthy	Art-Music	Tamil Nadu
21.	Shri Laishram Birendrakumar Singh	Art-Music	Manipur
22.	Shri Krishna Ram Chaudhary	Art-Music	Uttar Pradesh
23.	Smt. Baoa Devi	Art-Painting	Bihar
24.	Shri Tilak Gitai	Art-Painting	Rajasthan
25.	Dr. Prof. Aekka Yadagiri Rao	Art-Sculpture	Telangana
26.	Shri Jitendra Haripal	Art-Music	Odisha
27.	Shri Kailash Kher	Art-Music	Maharashtra
28.	Smt. Parassala B Ponnammal	Art-Music	Kerala
29.	Smt. Sukri Bommagowda	Art-Music	Karnataka
30.	Shri Mukund Nayak	Art-Music	Jharkhand
31.	Shri Purushottam Upadhyay	Art-Music	Gujarat
32.	Smt. Anuradha Paudwal	Art-Music	Maharashtra
33.	Shri Wareppa Naba Nil	Art-Theatre	Manipur
34.	Shri Tripuraneni Hanuman Chowdary	Civil Service	Telangana
35.	Shri T.K. Viswanathan	Civil Service	Haryana
36.	Shri Kanwal Sibal	Civil Service	Delhi
37.	Shri Birkha Bahadur Limboo Muringla	Literature & Education	Sikkim
38.	Smt. Eli Ahmed	Literature & Education	Assam
39.	Dr. Narendra Kohli	Literature & Education	Delhi
40.	Prof. G. Venkatasubbiah	Literature & Education	Karnataka
41.	Shri Akkitham Achyuthan Namboothiri	Literature & Education	Kerala
42.	Shri Kashi Nath Pandita	Literature & Education	Jammu & Kashmir
43.	Shri Chamu Krishna Shastry	Literature & Education	Delhi
44.	Shri Harihar Kripalu Tripathi	Literature & Education	Uttar Pradesh
45.	Shri Michel Danino	Literature & Education	Tamil Nadu
46.	Shri Punam Suri	Literature & Education	Delhi
47.	Shri VG Patel	Literature & Education	Gujarat
48.	Smt. V Koteswaramma	Literature & Education	Andhra Pradesh
49.	Shri Balbir Dutt	Literature & Education-Journalism	Jharkhand
50.	Smt. Bhawana Somaaya	Literature & Education-Journalism	Maharashtra
51.	Shri Vishnu Pandya	Literature & Education-Journalism	Gujarat
52.	Dr. Subroto Das	Medicine	Gujarat
53.	Dr. (Smt.) Bhakti Yadav	Medicine	Madhya Pradesh
54.	Dr. Mohammed Abdul Waheed	Medicine	Telangana
55.	Dr. Madan Madhav Godbole	Medicine	Uttar Pradesh
56.	Dr. Devendra Dayabhai Patel	Medicine	Gujarat
57.	Prof. Harkishan Singh	Medicine	Chandigarh
58.	Dr. Mukut Minz	Medicine	Chandigarh
59.	Shri Arun Kumar Sharma	Others-Archaeology	Chhattisgarh
60.	Shri Sanjeev Kapoor	Others-Culinary	Maharashtra
61.	Smt. Meenakshi Amma	Others-Martial Art	Kerala
62.	Shri Genabhai Dargabhai Patel	Others-Agriculture	Gujarat
63.	Shri Chandrakant Pithawa	Science & Engineering	Telangana
64.	Prof. Ajoy Kumar Ray	Science & Engineering	West Bengal
65.	Shri Chintakindi Mallesham	Science & Engineering	Andhra Pradesh
66.	Shri Jitendra Nath Goswami	Science & Engineering	Assam
67.	Shri Daripalli Ramaiah	Social Work	Telangana
68.	Shri Girish Bhardwaj	Social Work	Karnataka
69.	Shri Karimul Hak	Social Work	West Bengal
70.	Shri Bipin Ganatra	Social Work	West Bengal
71.	Smt. Nivedita Raghunath Bhide	Social work	Tamil Nadu
72.	Shri Appasaheb Dharmadhikari	Social Work	Maharashtra
73.	Baba Balbir Singh Seechewal	Social Work	Punjab
74.	Shri Virat Kohli	Sports-Cricket	Delhi
75.	Shri Shekar Naik	Sports-Cricket	Karnataka
76.	Shri Vikasa Gowda	Sports-Discus Throw	Karnataka
77.	Smt. Deepa Malik	Sports-Athletics	Haryana
78.	Shri Mariyappan Thangavelu	Sports-Athletics	Tamil Nadu
79.	Smt. Dipa Karmakar	Sports-Gymnastics	Tripura
80.	Shri P R Shreejesh	Sports-Hockey	Kerala
81.	Smt. Sakshi Malik	Sports-Wrestling	Haryana
82.	Shri Mohan Reddy Venkatrama Bodanapu	Trade & Industry	Telangana
83.	Shri Imrat Khan  (NRI/PIO)	Art-Music	USA
84.	Shri Anant Agarwal (NRI/PIO)	Literature & Education	USA
85.	Shri H.R. Shah (NRI/PIO)	Literature & Education-Journalism	USA
86.	Late (Smt.) Suniti Solomon (Posthumous)	Medicine	Tamil Nadu
87.	Shri Asoke Kumar Bhattacharyya (Posthumous)	Others-Archaeology	West Bengal
88.	Dr. Mapuskar (Posthumous)	Social Work	Maharashtra
89.	Smt. Anuradha Koirala (Foreigner)	Social Work	Nepal

            The above details are also available on MHA website, mha.nic.in, and padmaawards.gov.in

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Bengaluru beckons Under-30 PR professionals!

• Special Foursome Handsome Package

• Mentoring session with industry veterans

• Special discounted registration fee of Rs 3,000 

BENGALURU: In a serious bid to involve the younger generation of PR professionals in its 11^th Global Communication Conclave to be held at Bengaluru, PRCI has chalked out a special package series for Under-30 segment, including a mentoring session.

The Conclave with theme DISRUPTION? will be held on March 3 and 4, 2017 at Fortune Park JP Celestial, 5/43, Race Course Road, Bengaluru -560009. Day-3 of the event is dedicated to mass communication students.

There is a growing feeling that PR Conclaves do not offer much takeaways for the younger professionals while seniors indulge in discussions.

It should also be an acceptable fact that professional communicators attending the Conclave should be the best in their respective organisations. If they are not, they need to be trained. If they are they should be adequately equipped to conduct basic training for colleagues across the company.

But this year’s Conclave will bring about a disruption in this trend with the following handsome foursome package for Under-30 PR professionals from across corporate communication, PR agency and startups.

1. Mentoring – Is Enough being Done

 A soul-searching Manthan session between the seniors and young PR professionals: We invite all PR professionals Under-30 to join us at the Conclave and attend the session, pose questions to seniors and learn from their experiences.

2. Flaunt your byline in Global Essay Campaign on disruption on one of the following topics.

 Demonetisation: Pain or Gain?

Everybody is talking about it because each and every one of us is impacted by it. Please analyse the issue, its impact and the communication aspects related to it

Ecological Crisis – Its forever?

Are we as communicators effectively dealing with the environment, sustainability, CSR in a responsible way? Re we as communicators losing track and resort to mere lip service or cosmetic communication?

Swachh Bharat – fad or reality?

Has the communication hit the right target? Have communicators taken it up as a big challenge and dealt with it? Or was it left out as a political gimmick? Analyse success/failures attached with the drive.

Financial Inclusion – On right track?

This is a much talked about issue for ages. From Garibi Hatao to Pradhan Sevak, all successive governments have been talking about it. Let’s do a reality check and how and where communication can play a role

The choice is yours. PRCI is happily offering you a platform to ready-made platform in a never-before opportunity.

3. Decoding sessions with veterans such as Social Media brains, Authors, Political Strategists, Crisis Managers, Retail Revlutionaries

4. Here is a top-up offer. As a special discounted delegate fee of Rs 3,000 (Rupees three thousand only) for Under-30 PR professionals (against the regular fee of Rs 4,500) for two days – March 3 & 4, 2017.

The fee covers: Registration, Two Lunches, two High-Teas and a dinner and beverages at Fortune Park JP Celestial.

So, what are we waiting for? Download the attached Special Delegate registration form and join us at Bengalore.

The deadline for registrations is February 15, 2017. Please rush your registration early to avoid last minute disappointment

PRCI organised its previous Global Communication Conclaves at Kolkata, New Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad and Chandigarh. Headquartered at Bengaluru, PRCI has its chapters pan-India and begun to spread its foot print globally by opening its first international chapter in UAE.

Looking forward to meeting you at Bengaluru on March 3 and 4, 2017.

Thanks and Regards

B N Kumar

National President- PRCI

Unique Branding Opportunity@11th Global Communication Conclave

By Ravindran Kesavan

Secreyary General - PRCI national executive 

Ravindran

The forthcoming 11^th Global Communication Conclave will see the convergence of top notch communication professionals.

Being the platform for PR, Media, Advertising, HR professionals and mass communication academicians, PRCI will have delegates from these segments.

The theme for the 11^th Global Communication Conclave is: DISRUPTION?

The Conclave will have sessions under sub-themes such as the impact of disruption in media/social media, the retail revolution, demonetisation and real estate, apart from  featuring several case studies and success stories.

We also planned Rendezvous with corporate honchos and Decoding sessions with experts in several fields.  

Continuing its tradition, PRCI will present its signature Chanakya Awards to recognize the outstanding contributions in Corporate Services and Communication, induct professionals with exemplary performance into PR Hall of Fame and felicitate winners of Corporate Collateral Awards under a host of categories.

The Conclave, thus, offers several great and unique branding opportunities as it will see over 500 delegates taking part!

o   Title sponsor: Rs 10, 00,000

o   Co-Sponsor: Rs 5,00,000

o   Panel Discussions sponsor: Rs 2,00,000 each

o   Lunch Sponsor: Rs 3,00,000 each

o   Dinner Sponsor: Rs 4,00,000

o   High-Tea: Rs 100,000

o   Standee Display (6x3): Rs 50,000 each

Please tick mark the relevant option and send your Sponsorship material, Logo and Release Order along with payment in favour of

PUBLIC RELATIONS COUNCIL OF INDIA, Bangalore

Payments may also be released via NEFT:

PUBLIC RELATIONS COUNCIL OF INDIA, BANGALORE 

Bank A/c. No.:  117801010024211

VIJAYA BANK, R C ROAD BRANCH, BANGALORE -560001

IFSC Code :  VIJB0001178

Global Essay Campaign on demonetisation etc., in association with Mumbai Press Club

We are glad to inform you that Public relations Council of India (PRCI), the premier organization of PR, advertising, media and HR professionals and academicians, will hold its 11th Global Communication Conclave on March 3 to 5, 2017 at Bengaluru with theme: DISRUPTION.

As a prelude to the Conclave, we at PRCI, in association with Mumbai Press Club, are organizing a Global Essay Campaign.

All Communication professionals such as journalists, PR, advertising, HR professionals and academicians connected with mass communication institutes are welcome to join the drive.

The essays will be carried in a compendium, powered by Concept PR,   and released at the Global Conclave on March 3, 2017.

To be fair to writers, we suggest the following options of topics:

For Indian Communication Professionals

Demonetisation: Pain or Gain?

Everybody is talking about it because each and every one of us is impacted by it. Please analyse the issue, its impact and the communication aspects related to it

Ecological Crisis – Its forever?

Are we as communicators effectively dealing with the environment, sustainability, CSR in a responsible way? Re we as communicators losing track and resort to mere lip service or cosmetic communication?

Swachh Bharat – fad or reality?

Has the communication hit the right target? Have communicators taken it up as a big challenge and dealt with it? Or was it left out as a political gimmick? Analyse success/failures attached with the drive.

Financial Inclusion – On right track?

This is a much talked about issue for ages. From Garibi Hatao to Pradhan Sevak, all successive governments have been talking about it. Let’s do a reality check and how and where communication can play a role

For International Communication Professionals:

1. Disruption – A global Phenomenon?

After the social media invasion, Disruption seems to have become a buzzword all over. Is it

for real or disruption is just another fad or misused word. Whatever it is, isn’t disruption impacting us at every step? For instance, Obama disrupted the way Americans voted, Brexit did disrupt European relations, terrorism is disrupting world economies. So, let’s discuss the impact and the role of communicators in understanding disruption and getting over it.

2. India – Expectations from an emerging Global Super Power

India has emerged as a new investment destination thanks to its democracy, political stability and above all open window policies. Yet, critics say its miles to go for India before it emerges as an economic super power. What is that the world expects of India. Is India doing the right communication? Are the right signals going out? Please analyse all aspects and post your case study.

The conditions and rules are simple:

• The campaign is open to all media professionals – journalists, PR, HR and Advertising practitioners, mass communication academicians and rsearchers
• The writeups could be in 600 word to 1200 words – the choice is yours.
• An independent jury will scrutinize the essays/comments for printing to ensure that they within the law of the land.
• While freedom of expression as enshrined in the Constitution will be respected, no slander, abusive language or partisan comments will be published.
• The editorial decision of the jury will be final and binding on all of us and no further enquiries will be entertained.
• The deadline for receiving the entries at PRCI is: January 31, 2017.
• Please send your entries to: mailbnk@gmail.com
• Please clearly mark the subject as: PRCI Global Essay Contest - 2017

PRCI and The Mumbai Press Club hope that the compendium will serve as a good reference material for communication professionals as well as mass communication and management students.

So, what are we waiting for? Just switch on your computers, pickup a topic of your liking from the options given above and start keying in your thoughts!

Contact: B N KUMAR, National President – PRCI, Ph: +91 98201 28332, +91-93210 48332

After Dubai, PRCI-i spreading wings

Vinay Kumar

DUBAI:  In a move that will strengthen the bond among media and PR professionals across the world, India’s largest communicators body Public Relations Council of India (PRCI) has initiated steps to form its international chapters.

After the launch of PRCI-i (International) at Dubai recently,  the organization has initiated steps to launch other global chapters.

“This is only a beginning and we will soon have PRCI-i Chapters in Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Singapore, Australia, UK and USA,” said global wing Director T Vinay Kumar.

Public Relations Council of India (PRCI) is a premier non-political and not-for-profit organization of professionals in the fields of public relations, communication, advertising and many other allied services. It has been actively pursuing the spread and popularity of communication and Public Relation in India. It has close to 30 Chapters pan-India.

Recently, PRCI launched its global endeavour by initiating formation of its UAE Chapter and is working on setting up its wings in Australia, the US and Europe.

“PRCI today has emerged as one of the foremost platforms for PR and Communication professionals for global exchange of ideas in areas of public relations, corporate communication, advertising, brand management and academics,” said the organisation’s  Chief Mentor and Chairman Emeritus.

PRCI has successfully conducted ten global conferences and five international meets till date. It’s much vied annual prestigious awards: Chanakya Awards, PR Hall of Fame Awards & Corporate Collateral awards are like Oscars of PR & Communication world. Every year hundreds of achievers in the media & journalism, corporate communication & advertising, public & social services get recognized by PRCI in gala global conclaves in the major cities across India.

PRCI organises symposiums, seminars, conferences, knowledge forums and workshops regularly in all its active chapters, said PRCI Governing Council Chairman R T Kumar.

 “PRCI is also promoting knowledge forums on various business and media platforms,” said its national president B N Kumar. In its endeavor to promote skill development, PRCI has initiated training programmes for upcoming with the help of veteran communication professionals and senior journalists across India. In a first such move, PRCI has formed a Guest Faculty Pool with media and PR professionals to conduct practical training for mass communication students in Bengaluru, Mumbai, Kochi, Pune and Delhi, he said.

In 2013, PRCI launched its youth wing – Young Communicators Club (YCC) - across its chapters in the country. This platform gives an opportunity to the students of Journalism & Mass Communication and Business Management to learn the ropes of the industry and get industry ready after interacting with eminent media personalities through a series of workshops, seminars, contests and creative events and festivals, said YCC chairperson Geetha Shankar.

Global Conclave Update: Entries open for Global Case Study Contest

• Select entries will be part of a Compendium...

As part of the forthcoming 11th Global Communication Conclave on March 3 to 5, 2017 at Bengaluru, Public relations Council of India (PRCI), the premier organization of PR, advertising, media and HR professionals and academicians, will hold its a global case study competition.

The theme for the 11^th Global Communication Conclave is: DISRUPTION?

Be it the media, communication, Politics, Economy, Science, Religion, Education, Energy, Health, relationships and even the way we Think – it seems to be disruption that is impacting our lives at every step.

The question mark with the theme is deliberate – to make all of us think, ask ourselves and, probably, come to a conclusion in this Manthan - the churning of thoughts.

As a prelude to the Conclave, PRCI is organizing a National Case Study Contest with the following options:

For Indian Communication Professionals

1. Demonetisation: Pain or Gain?Everybody is talking about it because each and everyone of us is impacted by it. Please analyse the issue, its impact and the communication aspects related to it
2. Ecological Crisis – Its forever?Are we as communicators effectively dealing with the environment, sustainability, CSR in a responsible way? Re we as communicators losing track and resort to mere lip service or cosmetic communication?
3. Swachh Bharat – fad or reality?Has the communication hit the right target? Have communicators taken it up as a big challenge and dealt with it? Or was it left out as a political gimmick? Analyse success/failures attached with the drive.
4. Financial Inclusion – On right track?This is a much talked about issue for ages. From Garibi Hatao to Pradhan Sevak, all successive governments have been talking about it. Let’s do a reality check and how and where communication can play a role

 For International Communication Professionals:

1. Disruption – A global Phenomenon?

After the social media invasion, Disruption seems to have become a buzzword all over. I it for real or disruption is just another fad or misused word. Whatever it is, isn’t disruption impacting us at every step? For instance, Obama disrupted the way Americans voted, Brexit did disrupt European relations, terrorism is disrupting world economies. So, let’s discuss the impact and the role of communicators in understanding disruption and getting over it.

2. India – Expectations from an emerging Global Super Power

India has emerged as a new investment destination thanks to its democracy, political stability and above all open window policies. Yet, critics say its miles to go for India before it emerges as an economic super power. What is that the world expects of India. Is India doing the right communication? Are the right signals going out? Please analyse all aspects and post your case study.

Please pick up a subject of your interest and send in a case study that fits into a ten-slide (yes, just ten crisp slides) ppt presentation.

Please also send in the study in Word format in about three A-4 pages (about 1200 words) with proper heads for possible printing in PRCI Case Study Book.

Top entry in each category will be picked up by an independent jury.

The winning entries will be presented by the contestants at the Conclave on March3/4, 2017.

These and few other case studies picked by the jury will be published in a special compendium – PRCI Case Study Book 2017.

PRCI hopes that the compendium will serve as a good reference material for communication professionals as well as mass communication and management students.

The decision of the jury will be final and binding on all contestants and no further enquiries will be entertained.

So, what are we waiting for? Just switch on your computers and start banging!

The deadline for receiving the entries at PRCI is: January 31, 2017.

Please clearly mark the subject as: PRCI Case Study Contest 2017

Please send your entries to: mailbnk@gmail.com

Global Conclave Update: Chance for youth to showcase talent

By Geetha Shankar

Chairperson, YCC

BENGALURU: Young Communicators Club, National level, (Is a Youth Wing of Public Relations Council of India (PRCI), the premier organization of PR, advertising, media and HR professionals and academicians, will hold its 11th Global Communication Conclave on March 3 to 5, 2017 at Bengaluru.

YCC invites to present papers at the conference on the theme “Disruption”

Geetha Shankar

Sub themes:

• ·         Innovation versus Disruption
• ·         Does Education need Disruption?
• ·         New Media causing Disruption?
• ·         Journalism Disrupted - right or wrong/Good or Bad 

Dead lines

Abstract submission: January 15^th 2017

Full paper submission: January 30^th 2017

Highlights

Veteran academicians, communication experts, Journalists and Research Scholars will be in the panel for reviewing the papers.

Depending on the originality, quality, relevance and other Editorial considerations, the papers will be published in PRCI Case Study Book 2017.

Important Dates

Intimation regarding acceptance of Abstracts: January 20^th 2017

Last date for Full paper submission: January 30th 2017

Date of conference: March 5^th 2017

Submission of Papers

Under Graduate and Post Graduate Students pursuing their studies in Journalism, Advertising, Public Relations, Mass Comm, Business Administration (BBA & MBA) are invited to submit original papers in standard format.(single column, 1.5 spaced,12 point, Times New Roman font, confirming to APA Style)

One sub theme to be chosen and each person to submit one.

Submissions are recommended to have no more than 10 pages including figures, tables and illustrations or 3000 full paper words is the limit.

Submissions to be accompanied by a recommendation letter from the HOD /Principal of the concerned college in the college/ Institute letter head mentioning about the students participation in the paper presentation.

Submissions will be judged on originality, significance, interest, clarity, relevance, precision and presentation.

Best research presentations will be chosen for the prize. The selected candidates will be given 10 minutes time to present his/her paper on March 5^th 2017

Contact

Abstracts and Full Papers are to be submitted online to: yccnationalcouncil @gmail.com

Registration Fees for the conclave:

3 days participation   (3, 4 & 5 Mar 2017)                                       Rs 2500

1 day participation    (5^th Mar 2017)                                                Rs 700

Register for participation by clicking below link.

https://goo.gl/forms/Nimt41lmpQeY8Rjo1

Venue on 3^rd and 4^th March 2017: Fortune Park, JP Celestial, Race Course Road, Bengaluru- 560009.

Venue on 5^th March 2017:  Mangala Mantapa Auditorium, NMKRV College, Jayanagar, Bengaluru.