NEW DELHI: IIMC Alumni Association announced the winners of the 9th edition of IIMCAA awards at its annual meet, Connections, in Delhi.
Anshu Gupta, founder of Goonj, and writer-journalist Neelesh Misra were honoured with the Alumni of the Year Award. Sarvapriya Sangwan from BBC Hindi won the Journalist of the Year award, which included a cash prize of Rs 1.50 lakh, a trophy, and a citation.
Around 80 alumni who graduated from IIMC 25 years ago were also given Silver Jubilee honours at the ceremony.
As part of the committee awards, Prof. Ashok Ogra from Delhi, Jahnabi Phookan from Guwahati, Sujata Sabnis from Pune, Prof. Shambhu Nath Singh from Tezpur, and Dr. Medini Prasad Roy from Delhi were honoured with the Lifetime Achievement Award.
The Public Service Award was given to Jamshedpur SSP Kishor Kaushal and social worker Aditya Vardhan from Gaya. Ketan Tanna from Maharashtra, Sudhansu Kumar Patro from Odisha and Marinder Mishra from Uttar Pradesh received the Connecting Alumni of the year award, while the IIMCAA Gujarat Committee was given the Connecting Chapter of the year award.
Santosh Kumar Valmeeki from UP, Kalyan Ranjan and Nitin Pradhan from Delhi, Alice Guram from Punjab, Braj Kishore, Krishna Pophale from Maharashtra and Byomakesh Biswal from Odisha were awarded the Pillars of IIMCAA Award.
The winners of various jury awards with prize money ranging from `50,000 to Rs 1.50 lakh were announced by the jury of the respective categories. In addition to Journalist of the Year Sarvapriya Sangwan Pallav Jain was awarded Agriculture Reporter of the Year, Sandeep Rajwade Reporter of the Year (Publishing), Ajatika Singh Reporter of the Year (Broadcasting), Harshita Rathore Producer of the Year, R Samban Indian Language Reporter of the Year (Publishing), Anuj Kumar Das Indian Language Reporter of the Year (Broadcast), Pankaj Bora AD Person of the Year and Ashish Shukla PR Person of the Year. Avian WE bagged the PR Agency of the Year award while Kaizzen won the Digital Agency of the Year award.
IIMCAA President Simrat Gulati chaired the event that was addressed by IIMCAA Awards Auditor Rajesh Kalra, Coordinator Sneha Bhattacharjee, General Secretary Deeksha Saksena, Treasurer Animesh Biswas, Connections Meet Principal Organiser Prem Prakash, Global Meet Convenor Rajesh Kumar, Chapter Meet Convenor Neeraj Bajpai, Silver Jubilee Batch Coordinator Arijit Banerjee, and Souvenir’s Editor Sushil Singh. Former IIMCAA Presidents Mukesh Kaushik, Sunila Dhar, Prasad Sanyal, Kalyan Ranjan, Executive President Gayatri Srivastava, and senior professionals from the fields of journalism, PR, and advertising from across the country participated in the event.