Author: IIMC Alumni Association

Dear Governing Council Members,

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Dear IIMCians,

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Dear IIMCians,

The Central Committee will meet on 13th September, 2020 (Sunday) at IIMC HQ, New Delhi at 5 PM.

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IIMC Alumni Association is adding one more IIMCAA Scholarship from the 2020-21 academic session in the memory of Late Dillip Satapathy. Senior journalist Dillip Satapathy fought a long battle against cancer before he passed away on 8th September, 2019.

Dillip Satapathy Memorial Trust has instituted the Dillip Satapathy Memorial IIMCAA Scholarship, which will be awarded to a deserving student of English Journalism at IIMC Dhenkanal for the next five years.

The scholarship will honour Dillip Satapathy’s exemplary professional commitment, outstanding journalistic career and selfless devotion to mentoring young journalism students.

IIMCAA Scholarship is an initiative started with the support of alumni and well-wishers of IIMCAA from the academic session 2018-19.

11 students in 2019 and 27 in 2020 received IIMCAA Scholarships. The addition of one new scholarship will make a Total of 28 IIMCAA Scholarships of 25000 INR each available for students in 2021.

Full List, Rules, Criteria and Process to Start & Adopt IIMCAA Scholarships  

Thanks & Regards,
Harshendra Singh Verdhan
General Secretary

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IIMCian Mr. Anuranjan Jha (HJ, 1998-99 Batch) has launched ‘Lauk’, a video conferencing and web streaming platform and solution purely made in India for Indians. It offers a general video conferencing platform as well as ‘Lauk Classroom’ for educators and ‘Lauk Studio’ for live streaming, webinars, and other services.

Lauk platform has 3 different solutions that Jha’s company, Park Media Private Limited, is offering. In the backdrop of the privacy concerns of some video conferencing apps, Jha claimed Lauk comes with an ‘end-to-end encryption’ essential feature.

Lauk offers optional password protection on each call, multi-device login support. The users, especially the ones working from Home, for enhanced collaboration with colleagues can share the screen with the other side.

Jha is a TV Journalist and Media Entrepreneur. In his career spanning over 22 years, he has worked with leading media organisations such as Zee News, AajTak, India TV.  At an early age of 30, Anuranjan Jha became an Editor and News Director of a National News channel “India News”and only two years later he became the COO and Editor-in-Chief of CNEB. Jha founded Park Media Pvt Ltd. in the year 2009, and became the Managing Director of a well-known Media company Vertent Media Soft Pvt. Ltd in 2012.  

He started India's first wedding entertainment channel Shagun in 2012. He now owns National News Channel R9, which is available on all major DTH and cable distribution platforms. He sits on the boards of four different media companies.

He is also the author of "Ramlila Maidan-A series of false Gods”, a book on the background and reality of the Anna Movement. Jha is a native of Motihari, a small town in Bihar and runs BHOR Trust, for the sustainable development of his hometown. He is a lifetime member of IIMC Alumni Association.

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Dear IIMCians,

A small delegation of IIMC Alumni Association led by IIMCAA President Mr. Prasad Sanyal called on Prof. Sanjay Dwivedi- DG, IIMC & Patron, IIMCAA on July 17th, 2020.

Prof. Dwivedi and Mr. Sanyal discussed ways to expand co-operation between the institute and the alumni association.

IIMCAA Awards Coordinator Ms. Simrat Gulati, Organisation Secretary Mr. Ritesh Verma and Former Treasurer Ms. Deeksha Saksena accompanied IIMCAA President.

Harshendra Singh Verdhan
General Secretary
IIMC Alumni Association

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Dear IIMCians,

IIMC Alumni Association Maharashtra Chapter hosted an online meeting on June 19th, 2020. Chapter President Ms Gayatri Srivastava presided over the meeting. Around 20 members attended the very first virtual meeting of the chapter.

Members discussed how they were dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic and the lockdown in Mumbai. Mr Suryakant Mishra suggested that sub groups should be formed for cultural and social activities.

Mr Mubin Khan spoke of the activities undertaken by his NGO in Navi Mumbai. Mr Atul Purohit and Ms Aparna Pandey welcomed this digital initiative of the Maharashtra chapter.

Mr Dheeraj Kumar recommended a Book Club for members. Special vote of thanks went out to Mr Ketan Tanna for his daily shares of latest newspapers and books. Members were unanimous in their appreciation of Mr Tanna's efforts in keeping the group alive and going especially in the lockdown.

Neeraj Bajpai
General Secretary
IIMCAA, Maharashtra Chapter

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Dear IIMCians,

Jharkhand Chapter of IIMC Alumni Association hosted an online meeting on June 6, 2020. Chapter President Manoj Kumar presided over the meeting that was attended by 12 members including Vice President Dev Vrat Singh, General Secretary Pranav P Das, Organisation Secretary Pooja Oraon, Anupam Rana, Neeraj Kumar Arya and Nivedita Gupta. Senior member SK Dubey and IIMCAA Organisation Secretary Ritesh Verma also participated in the meeting.

Minutes of the meeting:-

1. New members of the state chapter were welcomed by everyone

2. General Secretary Pranav P Das dwelt upon the social work carried out by president Manoj Kumar on behalf of the Chapter during COVID 19 Lockdown. It was brought to the knowledge of members that food and other essential supplies were distributed among the needy at slum areas and Khatals, footpaths, flyovers  during the lockdown since March 29.

3. The members also pledged to continue social work through various means, especially spreading awareness on COVID-19.

4. Senior member SK Dubey suggested adopting long time measures to help people during the Covid crisis.

5. Several members came up with some noble ideas to help people during COVID crisis.

6. It was also decided to augment yearly contributions to be used for chapter activities. Mr. Dubey suggested that an excel sheet could be prepared for account details so that the group members remain updated and pay accordingly.

Pranav Pratyush Das
General Secretary
IIMCAA, Jharkhand Chapter

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Dear all,

Greetings!

Hope you are doing good, both personally and professionally amidst the unprecedented challenges posed by Covid-19.

To share with you, currently I am doing a seminal research on the News Media Sector on “Wages and related issues” concerning the working journalists for the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR). The proposed merger of The Working Journalists and other Newspaper Employees (Conditions of Service) and Miscellaneous Provisions act, 1955 with Labour law (Occupational, Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code, also known as the OSH Code within the Labour law) has received critical response from various journalists’ associations. I would like to know your views on this and other related issues also in your individual capacity.

May I request the working journalists among you, who are employed in print, electronic and digital media, to please fill in the questionnaire given below and send it as indicated. I shall appreciate, if you encourage your other colleagues to also fill in the questionnaire. The more the response, the better would be the understanding on this vexed issue and a possible intervention at the policy level. 

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