Public Relations Day

Silver Jubilee National PR Day - 21^st April 2011

With an unprecedented gathering comprised of Public Relations practitioners, Students, Media and the recipients of Awards with their associates, the 21^st April 2011 witnessed many a thing at Federation House, celebrating the Silver Jubilee National Public Relations Day on a theme - “Ethics in Governance and Business: Public Relations Perspective”. This is the 5^th consecutive National PR day jointly organised by PRSI & GFPR.

In his presidential address, the legendary, Dr. CV Narasimha Reddi stressed upon the need for value education in Public Relations. The Chief Guest, Hon'ble Minister for I & PR, Smt. DK Aruna observed that all developmental works of the Govt. are made visible and audible to the public by the PR set up in the State. The Guest of Honor, Sis Radhika, Chief of BK’s Nagarjuna Management Centre said that business and honesty do not go together, but ethical business is always possible. National President of GFPR, Sis BK Sarala redefined a Shakespearean quote saying “some are born great, some achieve greatness and several engage PR men to do certain great jobs”. Chapter Chairman of PRSI, Sri NL Narasimha Rao announced the launch of Women’s Wing of his Chapter. Sri Krishna Baji, past National Vice President (South), administered a pledge of rededication to the profession by the members of PRSI

The “Best PR Manager of the year” instituted by Dr CV Narasimha Reddi was presented to G Aneeja, Technical Officer, National Academy of Agriculture Research Management, Rajendra Nagar, Hyderabad. She is the 15^th (and the 1^st woman) recipient of this award. [See below for the winners of this award]

Sl No.	Year	Name	Designation	Organization
1	1997	PSN Murthy	Ch Manager, PR	Vysya Bank
2	1998	P Krishnaiah	Chief PRO	South Central Railways
3	1999	C Elbert	Manager, PR	NTPC Ltd
4	2000	Krishna Baji	Manager,PR	HUDA
5	2001	M Krishnanand	Chief PRO	MCH
6	2002	Dr J Chennaiah	PRO	Telugu University
7	2003	A Vishveswar Reddy	PRO	Dr BR Ambedkar Open University
8	2004	S Chandra sekhar	Chief PRO	Singareni Collieries Ltd
9	2005	Mohana Murthy	PRO	APSRTC
10	2006	D Virinchi	AGM, PR	State Bank of Hyderabad
11	2007	FR Michael	Sr Manager, PR	South Central Railways
12	2008	Y Babji	PRO	AP Khadi & VI Board
13	2009	K Manohar Achary	Commn. Officer	Dept of Rural Development
14	2010	S Krishnan	Manager, PR	Indian Airlines
15	2011	G Aneeja	Tech Officer, PR	NAARM

The prestigious “Golden Triangle” award of Global Forum for Public Relations was conferred on Prof Ujjwal K Choudhury, Executive Director for Media Studies, International School of Business & Media across all the four campuses at Pune, Kolkata, Noida & Bangalore. He is the 5^th recipients of this award since it was instituted. 

Sl No.	Year	Name	Designation	Organization
1	2007	K Srinivasan	CEO	Primepoint Foundation, Chennai
2	2008	Yogesh Joshi	President	Association of Business Communicators of India, Mumbai
3	2009	MB Jayaram	Chairman, GC	Public Relations Council of India, Bangalore
4	2010	CJ Singh	Managing Director	Core PR, Chandigarh
5	2011	Prof Ujjwal K Choudhury	Executive Director	ISB&M, Pune

An autobiography in Telugu, titled “Nannu Nenu Diddikuntu”, literally meaning ‘correcting myself’ was released and the author KMK Rao was felicitated. A souvenir commemorating the XI APPR conference held on 13^th Feb 2011 was also released at the function. Students who won places in the patriotic songs competition were given away with certificates by the Chief Guest & other guests. The memento of ‘best chapter’ award won by Hyderabad Chapter for the year 2009-10 was presented to KRK Chary, Past Chairman. The memento that could not be received in Kolkata conference was brought over here.