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Dear IIMCians,

IIMC Alumni Association is adding one more IIMCAA Scholarship from the academic session 2021-22 in memory of late Kusum Gupta and SD Gupta.

Mr. Anshu Gupta (HJ, 1990-91 & AD-PR, 1991-92 Batch) has instituted Kusum & SD Gupta Memorial IIMCAA Scholarship in the name of his parents, which will be awarded to a qualifying girl student, from rural India, at IIMC.

IIMCAA Scholarship is an initiative started with the support of alumni and well-wishers of IIMCAA in the academic year 2018-19. 11 IIMCAA Scholarships were awarded to the students of different departments and campuses in 2019. 

The addition of one new scholarship will make a total 29 IIMCAA Scholarships of 25000 INR each available for students in 2022.

Thanks & Regards,

Sadhna Arya

General Secretary 

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

Dear IIMCians,

IIMCAA Awards 2022 committee met on 23rd January for audit of entries and scrutiny. A total of 91 entries have been accepted for jury evaluation while 10 entries have been rejected for non-compliance with award rules.

Number of Accepted Entries- 91

Agriculture Reporting- 11 

Journalist of the Year [Publishing]- 28

Journalist of the Year [Broadcast]- 15

Indian Language Reporter of the Year [Publishing]- 04

Indian Language Reporter of the Year [Broadcast]- 04

Producer of the Year [Broadcast]- 07

PR Person of the Year- 15

AD Person of the Year- 07

Number of Rejected Entries- 10

Journalist of the Year [Publishing]- 06

Indian Language Reporter of the Year [Publishing]- 02

PR Person of the Year- 01

AD Person of the Year- 01

Regards,

Simrat Gulati, Coordinator

IIMCAA Awards 2022

Dear IIMCians,

Ms. Sneha Bhattacharjee, 2009-10 Batch Alumni (EJ, Dhenkanal) will be Joint Coordinator for IIMCAA Awards 2022. 

Thanks & Regards, 

Sadhna Arya

General Secretary

Earlier Announcements:-

Neelesh Misra | Editor- Souvenir, Connections 2022

Supriya Prasad | Chairman- IIMCAA Scholarships Committee 2022

Zafar Anjum | Convenor- International Meets, Connections 2022

Samudra Gupta Kashyap | Convenor- State Meets, Connections 2022

Nitin Mantri | Auditor- IIMCAA Awards 2022

Puja Mishra | Creative Head- IIMCAA

Sadhna Arya | Joint Coordinator- Jubilee Celebrations, Connections 2022 | 1971-72 & 1996-97 Batch

Kitty Mukherjee | Coordinator- Jubilee Celebrations, Connections 2022 | 1971-72 & 1996-97 Batch

Madhur Kalra | Co Coordinator- IIMCAA Awards 2022

Simrat Gulati | Coordinator- IIMCAA Awards 2022

Sambit Mohanty | Convenor- IIMCAA Awards 2022

Brajesh Kumar Singh | Convenor- National Meet, Connections 2022

Mr. Rajender Kataria | Principal Organiser- Connections 2022

Connections 2022 Begins on 27 February, IIMCAA Awards Returns to Jury

Dear IIMCians,

A general meeting of alumni in Jharkhand was held in Ranchi on 23rd January, 2022. This meeting unanimously elected a committee to run the chapter led by Mr. Sanjiv Kumar Besra, IAS.

The meeting organised at Ranchi Press Club was attended physically by Mr. Arvind Das, Prof. Dev Vrat Singh, Mr. Kumar Rajesh, Mr. Amit Gupta,  Mrs. Manisha Singh, Mr. Manish Gupta, Mr. Santosh Oraon, Mr. Onkar Pandey, Mr. Abhishek Kumar, Mr. Anand Dutta, Mr. Shambhu Nath, Mr. Niraj Kumar, Mr. Prashant Kumar Mahto and Mr. Suraj Thakur. Mr. Sanjiv Kumar Besra, Mr. Vivekanand Singh, Mr. Kishore Kumar, Mr. Nityanand and Mr. Devendra attended the meeting virtually.

The meeting discussed ways to restore the chapter committee and unanimously elected following alumni.

Patron– Mr. Arvind Das, Mr. Manoj Kumar, Prof. Dev Vrat Singh, Mr. Alok Gupta 

President– Mr. Sanjiv Kumar Besra, IAS

Vice President– Mr. Abhishek Kumar 

General Secretary– Mrs. Manisha Singh

Organisation Secretary– Mr. Shambhu Nath

Treasurer– Mr. Santosh Oraon

Executive Members– Mr. Mukesh Kumar, Mr. Ranjeet Kumar, Ms. Anjani Kumari, Mr. Ramesh Bhagat, Mr. Prashant Kumar Mahto

Committee above elected by a formal meeting of alumni in Ranchi is declared Chapter Committee of Jharkhand. 

Thanks & Regards,

Neeraj Jha

Organisation Secretary

Frequently Asked Questions on IIMCAA Group Medical Insurance Cover

1. Who all can take IIMCAA Insurance Plans?

The criteria are similar to the eligibility of obtaining IIMCAA’s membership.

Membership of association is open to any alumni who have obtained PG Diploma / Completed Training of minimum three months course at IIMC.

IIMCAA Group Medical Insurance Cover: Expression of Interest Survey

2. What is the main difference between Group health insurance and Individual health insurance plan?

The premium of individual health insurance increases every five years. So as you grow old, premium for your health insurance plan will become prohibitive. Whereas, the premium of group health insurance depends on the portfolio’s financial health, total claim as compared with the total premium collected.

The individual health insurance has two-three years waiting-period for pre-existing diseases. On the other hand, our group insurance should cover all pre-existing diseases from day one.

Also, a pre-medical test is not required to join group health insurance.

3. I already have a personal health insurance plan. Why should I go for IIMCAA group health insurance plan also?

It is a wise thought to be enrolled under both types of health insurance plans. This helps a person create a strong financial backup.

Employees of the private organisations get corporate Group Health Insurance. However, due to the fragile nature of jobs as we have seen in the last few years, individuals should have backup health insurance to fully keep their family secured.

IIMCAA’s Group Health Insurance is likely to be cheaper than individual health insurance plan.

Once our group health insurance plan stabilizes, one can also think of letting go of the individual health insurance plan.

Also please refer to responses to point no 2 above.

4. What is the advantage of an IIMCAA’s Group health insurance plan?

In individual health insurance, a policyholder deals with a faceless institution. There may challenges during claim process.

In IIMCAA’s group health insurance, we will have a dedicated person, backed by IIMCAA Insurance Team resources, to take care of all issues, including the claim process. You will most likely experience a personal touch to the whole experience.

With a large number of interested members, IIMCAA can negotiate better premium and terms with the insurance company.

5. What are the likely offering under the IIMCAA Group Insurance Plans?

To begin with, we are contemplating having below plans:

1. Health Insurance Plan
2. Top Up Health Insurance Plan, subject to sufficient responses
3. Health Insurance for Parents, subject to sufficient responses
4. Personal Accidental Insurance for self and spouse.

Most attractive aspect of our offering is likely to be that one will pay for only the number of persons insured, unlike other group insurance plans where even if say you are only a couple but you end up paying for a 2 Adult + 2 Children combo offering.

We are likely to have below combinations:

1. One Adult
2. Couple
3. One Adult + One Child
4. Two Adults + One Child
5. Two Adults + Two Children

So you will pay for only one of the above combination.

6. Which family members can be enrolled for the Group Health Insurance?

Spouse and dependent children up to 25 years of age.

If we have sufficient respondents for adding parents, then we will have plans for them also.

7. What happens after this survey?

We will negotiate with insurance companies for best of features and attractive premium.

We will have a form on www.iimcaa.org. IIMCAA member will choose the products, fill up all details and pay premium online.

Subsequently, plans will go live.

IIMCAA Insurance Committee

Dear IIMCians,

Let the new year be the harbinger of good news.

IIMCAA has embarked on an ambitious thought to secure the health and happiness of its members. Through IIMCAA Group Health and Personal Accident Insurance Plans, we hope to bring cheer to our members. The need for such plans have been felt as many of our members do not have any insurance at all or are under insured.

We just need to leverage our large numbers to our advantage: to extract best terms at attractive premiums from insurance companies.

We are doing a quick survey to find out the extent of interest of such products among us. Your participation in large numbers is a prerequisite for the success of this program.

Survey Link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc6qLnHxyQxhhciuXNXGF_6VH64yhjM3f7LqkElqvib6oYt8A/viewform

Please participate wholeheartedly in this survey, so that we have the backing of a large number of alumni to sit on the negotiation table with the insurance companies.

The minimalist survey solicits your interest to go for the group health and personal accident insurance products, for self and family. This should not take more than five minutes of your valuable time.

IIMCAA Group Medical Insurance Cover: Expression of Interest Survey: Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

We will reach out to insurance companies with the data points generated from this survey, create suitable products, negotiate good terms and come back to you with the final subscription offer.

Looking forward to a boisterous response from you all.

With Warm Regards,
IIMCAA Insurance Committee

Dear IIMCians,

IIMC Alumni Association will be celebrating the completion of Golden Jubilee of 1971-72 Batch and Silver Jubilee of 1996-97 at Annual Alumni Meet- Connections 2022 at IIMC HQ, New Delhi on 27th February, observing COVID-19 guidelines of the day.

IIMCAA will try its best to contact alumni of golden and silver jubilee batches, with the active support of alumni who know anyone of these two batches. One single alumni of a batch may help us to locate and connect all other alumni of the batch.

Team IIMCAA will share a brief profile of each alumni of golden and silver jubilee batches, whom it could contact and connect with. These Know Your Alumni Profiles will be published in the annual souvenir book as well.

It is an open appeal and request to all alumni of IIMC to help us with name, email, mobile number or whatever else you know about any of alumni of 1971-72 Batch or 1996-97 Batch which are Golden and Silver Jubilee batches for 2022 meets respectively. 

Email to us contact details of alumni at alumni.iimc@gmail.com | contact@iimcaa.org

 

Thanks & Regards,
Kitty Mukherjee
Coordinator, Jubilee Celebrations, Connections 2022
Executive President, IIMC Alumni Association

Dear IIMCians,

IIMC Alumni Association [IIMCAA] is now in its 6^th year of the IIMCAA Awards. Our endeavour to recognise the excellent work of our alumni in different fields of mass communication and remain connected with each other continues. Hosting another round of the awards gives us a sense of achievement that our relentless pursuit is bearing fruit and we are elated to have reached IIMCAA Awards 2022.

We are announcing entries open for IIMCAA Awards 2022 in 8 competitive categories out of 13 categories of the Awards.

The awards are in the broad areas of mass communication to elicit a wide variety and diversity of work and to get our alumni to participate and showcase their talent.

IIMCAA Awards will felicitate the best professional work done by the alumnus from 1 January, 2021 to 31 December, 2021. It carries a cash prize along with a trophy and a certificate.

There is a prize of 1,00,000 INR for Agricultural Reporting and 50,000 INR for each of the other competitive categories.

The selection will be done by a jury of eminent mass communication personalities. The awards will be announced and given on 27th February, 2022 at the Annual Alumni Meet- Connections 2022.

Categories of IIMCAA Awards 2020

Felicitation Awards – Not Open for Entries: Selection & Announcement by The Central Committee

1.Alumni of The Year- Felicitation

2. Public Service- Felicitation

3. Connecting Chapter of the Year- Felicitation

4. Connecting Group of the Year- Felicitation

5. Connecting Alumni of the Year- Felicitation

Open for Entries: Selection by a jury and Announcement by The Central Committee

6. Agriculture Reporting – 1,00,000 INR

7. Journalist of the Year [Publishing] – 50,000 INR

8. Journalist of the Year [Broadcast] — 50,000 INR

9. Indian Language Reporter of the Year [Publishing] — 50,000 INR

10. Indian Language Reporter of the Year [Broadcast] — 50,000 INR

11. Producer of the Year [Broadcast] — 50,000 INR

12. PR Person of the Year — 50,000 INR

13 AD Person of the Year — 50,000 INR

General Criteria and Rules of IIMCAA Awards 2022

1. Applicant must be a PG Diploma holder of the IIMC.

2. Applicants are not required to be a member of IIMC Alumni Association to apply for the awards.

3. Applicants can send only one outstanding work done during 1 January, 2021 to 31 December, 2021 as an entry.

4. Entries to be sent at awards@iimcaa.org

5. Applicants must attach a brief essay, maximum in 200 words, about the work justifying the entry for the awards.

6. Entries acceptable only in PDF, JPEG, URL or PPT format. The size of the attachments must be less than 3MB.

7. An applicant can apply for any one category only in a particular year.

8. Recommendation letter from the Head of the organisation or Reporting Manager is required for all such entries which don’t carry byline/ credit to the applicant. By-line/ credited entries do not require any such recommendation.

9. Entries need to be accompanied by a letter from the Editor/ Competent Authority if applied for Production work.

10. Two references of classmates/ batch mates at IIMC have to be provided by the applicant with their name, department, batch, campus, email id and mobile number.

11. Work in all Indian languages will be considered without favour or prejudice but the applicant should provide a suitable translation in English or Hindi to enable the judging process.

12. Central Committee members do not qualify for any awards.

13. Publishing categories cover the text works published in newspapers, magazines and news portals.

14. Broadcasting categories cover the audio/ video works done for TV, Radio and other digital platforms.

15. If an alumnus of agency side and another of client side send the same campaign for two different categories, the entry received first will qualify and will be considered.

16. Name of the organisation of winners, designation or freelance status will be recognized in certificates and trophies of IIMCAA Awards 2022.

17. Deadline to submit the entries for IIMCAA Awards 2022 is 10 January, 2022.

18. If the jury doesn’t find any suitable entry in any of the categories then the award for that category may be dropped for this year.

19. The decision of the jury will be final and can’t be contested in any court.

20. Any rule/ criteria can be altered by the IIMC Alumni Association if necessary, in the larger interest of alumni and awards.
21. Applicant must submit an undertaking duly signed by applicant only, text is given below:-

I have read all rules and agree to all terms and conditions of the IIMCAA Awards 2022. I authorise IIMCAA to use my name, photograph, organisation name and entry for promoting the IIMCAA Awards in all communication mediums. I will accept the final results of IIMCAA Awards 2022.

A brief description of the category of the awards is as follows:-

1) Alumni of the Year – Recognising and felicitating a personality for his achievements and contributions in making the brand IIMC stronger in any sector.

2) Public Service – Alumni associated with projects in the areas of social work, public welfare and development.

3) Connecting Chapter of the Year – The IIMCAA chapter that has made the maximum effort to connect the alumni in the year 2021.

4) Connecting Group of the Year – That group of IIMC which has kept the alumni spirit alive and has remained connected with each other.

5) Connecting Alumni of the Year – The special alumni who did the most to keep the alumni connected.

6) Agricultural Reporting – Journalistic work on agriculture and rural India.

7) Journalist of the Year [Publishing] – Journalistic work in any form of publishing in Hindi and English.

8) Journalist of the Year [Broadcasting] – Journalistic work in any form of broadcasting in Hindi and English.

9) Indian Language Reporter of the Year (Publishing)- Journalistic work in any form of publishing in any Indian language other than Hindi and English.

10) Indian Language Reporter of the Year (Broadcasting)- Journalistic work in any form of broadcasting in any Indian language other than Hindi and English.

11. Producer of the Year [Broadcast] – Journalistic production work in any form of broadcasting in any language prevalent in India.

12) PR Person of the Year– PR, Image building, Advocacy related work/ campaign showing competency and achievement.

13) Ad Person of the Year– Advertising related work/ campaign showing competency and achievement.

Thanks & regards,

Sambit Mohanty, Convenor

Simrat Gulati, Coordinator

IIMCAA Awards 2022

IIMC Alumni Association has formed a five members committee to explore the willingness of IIMC Alumni to subscribe to group medical insurance and personal accident covers if negotiated and coordinated by IIMCAA. The committee that will undertake this exercise comprises:-

1. Mr. Braj Kishore, Former Bengal Chapter President (1995-96 Batch)- Chairman

2. Mr. Mubin Khan, Senior Alumni, Mumbai (1990-91 Batch)- Member 

3. Ms. Gayatri Srivastava, Maharashtra Chapter President,  (1996-97 Batch)- Member

4. Mr. Animesh Biswas, Former General Secretary, IIMCAA (2005-06 Batch)- Member

5. Mr. Prabhat Upadhyay, Vice President, IIMCAA (2012-13 Batch)- Member

Maharashtra Chapter had suggested the central committee to undertake an exercise to seek expression of interest of alumni for getting covered by a group medical and personal accident insurance for unforeseen needs that may occur to anyone.

CC has decided to use emails / messages and all other available mediums to reach out to alumni to ascertain how many alumni will be opting such a group insurance for themselves and their families if IIMCAA negotiates and gets a best premium rate for it. 

We wish the committee very best for a positive outcome of this effort.

Thanks & Regards,

Kalyan Ranjan 

President