NEW DELHI: The Indian Institute of Mass Communication Alumni Association (IIMCAA) organised its 11th annual alumni meet – Connections 2023 – on Sunday and announced the winners of the 7th IFFCO IIMCAA Awards.
Odisha’s litterateur Dr. Gayatribala Panda received the ‘Alumni of the Year’ award. ‘Public Service Award’ went to Sushil Singh, Amit Katoch, Pee Lee Ete and Pankaj Chandra Goswami.
In the competitive categories the ‘Journalist of the Year’ award with a prize money of Rs 1.50 lakh was given to Utkarsh Singh of Bihar. Rohit Vishwakarma of Delhi got the award for Agriculture Reporter with a prize of Rs 1 lakh.
The ‘Reporter of the Year’ awards with prize money of Rs 50,000 went to Andrew Amsan of Delhi in Publishing and Nibir Deka of Assam in Broadcasting. The ‘Indian Language Reporter of the Year’ award went to Bijin Samuel from Kerala in Publishing and Sandhya Manikandan from Kerala in Broadcasting. ‘Producer of the Year’ – Jyoti Jangra of Delhi, ‘PR Person of the Year’ – AR Hemant of Karnataka and ‘Ad Person of the Year’ award was given to Mohit Pasricha of Delhi.
Jury Special Awards were also given to Harshita Rathore, Jyoti Yadav, Harikishan Sharma, N Sundresha Subramanian, Shambhu Nath, Rajshree Sahoo, Abhishek Yadav, Jyotismita Nayak, Surabhi Singh and Shubham Tiwari.
Apart from these, Prof. Gita Bamezai, Anita Kaul Basu, Prakash Patra, Samudra Gupta Kashyap and Anurag Vajpeyi were honoured with the ‘Lifetime Achievement Award’.
IIMC director-general Prof. Sanjay Dwivedi awarded the cheque, trophies to the winners at the yearly get-together.
Odisha’s litterateur Dr. Gayatribala Panda received the ‘Alumni of the Year’ award. ‘Public Service Award’ went to Sushil Singh, Amit Katoch, Pee Lee Ete and Pankaj Chandra Goswami.
In the competitive categories the ‘Journalist of the Year’ award with a prize money of Rs 1.50 lakh was given to Utkarsh Singh of Bihar. Rohit Vishwakarma of Delhi got the award for Agriculture Reporter with a prize of Rs 1 lakh.
The ‘Reporter of the Year’ awards with prize money of Rs 50,000 went to Andrew Amsan of Delhi in Publishing and Nibir Deka of Assam in Broadcasting. The ‘Indian Language Reporter of the Year’ award went to Bijin Samuel from Kerala in Publishing and Sandhya Manikandan from Kerala in Broadcasting. ‘Producer of the Year’ – Jyoti Jangra of Delhi, ‘PR Person of the Year’ – AR Hemant of Karnataka and ‘Ad Person of the Year’ award was given to Mohit Pasricha of Delhi.
Jury Special Awards were also given to Harshita Rathore, Jyoti Yadav, Harikishan Sharma, N Sundresha Subramanian, Shambhu Nath, Rajshree Sahoo, Abhishek Yadav, Jyotismita Nayak, Surabhi Singh and Shubham Tiwari.
Apart from these, Prof. Gita Bamezai, Anita Kaul Basu, Prakash Patra, Samudra Gupta Kashyap and Anurag Vajpeyi were honoured with the ‘Lifetime Achievement Award’.
IIMC director-general Prof. Sanjay Dwivedi awarded the cheque, trophies to the winners at the yearly get-together.