Respected sir/madam
Many wishes to you,
Global Forum for Public Relations (India International Association for values and ethics Public Relations – an initiative of Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual University) intends to celebrate 6th August as "National PR Education Day" from this year onwards.
The importance of the day is that our PR Celebrity, Dr CV Narasimha Reddi is completing his 75th year this 6th August 2008. Of the 75 years, he might have spent 50 years practicing Public Relations on one hand and promoting PR professional bodies, PR education, teaching PR in various Indian & Foreign Universities, authoring books on PR and editing a PR journal etc, on the other. Now, he is busy with AP State Council for Higher Education in developing model curriculum and formulating PR courses to be introduced in the Universities of Andhra Pradesh
Please see his brief C.V. down the mail.
We need to identify elders in PR clan for our own identity. We believe honoring such a multi-faceted PR celebrity is honoring the profession itself. Hence, this proposal.
Some of the elders and notables in ABCI, PRSI and PRCI have already expressed their opinion and wanted to join hands in celebrating "National PR Education Day" on 6th August every year. Several National level PR Practitioners, Media Experts, Educationists, Academicians and a few International personalities have also expressed their views while appreciating the initiative of GFPR.
I would therefore request you to pass on your opinion/view/
Regards,
Babji. Y
PR Practitioner & Teacher
National Vice President (Admn), Global Forum for Public Relations
Director, National Council, Association of Business Communicators of India
Representative, National Council, Public Relations Society of India
(Past Chairman, PRSI, Hyderabad Chapter)
Member, Executive Committee, Public Relations Council of India, Hyderabad
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(Profile of Dr CVNR)
Dr. C. V. NARASIMHA REDDI, MA PhD
(Completing 75 years on 6-8-2008 – GFPR to declare 6th August as National PR Education Day)
Dr. C.V. Narasimha Reddi, former Director, Information and Public Relations Department, Government of Andhra Pradesh and Past President, Public Relations Society of India, is currently, Editor, `Public Relations Voice'. The Journal is being run since nine years as the only journal for Indian P R professionals. DR. Reddi earlier held key positions such as Director, Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan's College of Communication and Management, Hyderabad, Director, India Foundation for Public Relations Education and Research, New Delhi, University Grants Commission, National Professor in Public Relations and Vice- Chancellor's Visiting Scholar, University of Canberra, Australia. He worked as Press Secretary to four Chief Ministers; as Advisor, Osmania University and Dr.B.R. Ambedkar Open University, Hyderabad where he was instrumental in launching Bachelor of Public Relations Course. Also instrumental in launching MS-PR in SV University.
As a visiting Professor, DR. Reddi lectured in several Universities both in India and eight Foreign Universities in U.K., U.S.A., Australia and China. Trained at the International Training Institute, Sydney, DR. Reddi got Ph.D. on `Information Administration' from the Osmania University. He visited 10 countries to study public relations, which include UK, USA, Australia, China, Philippines, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Thailand and Mauritius. His visit to the headquarters of PR Society of America in New York and the Chartered Institute of PR in London gave an insight into the functioning of P R professional bodies in the West.
A unique contribution of DR. Reddi to PR movement was that he as National President, PRSI in 1986 gave a call that April 21, should be observed as National Public Relations Day every year. He was also responsible to move the UGC to recognize public relations as an academic discipline. As an author of the First Indian book on Public Relations 'How To Be A Good P.R.O', Dr. Reddi authored 15 books on public relations including the book on `Public Information Management' - `Ancient India to Modern India' which has been commended by the Hindu, a national newspaper as a valuable asset to students, professors, information officers and media practitioners. He is now writing a book "Public Relations and Media Manaement-100 Questions and Answers". His articles on communication and public relations were published in leading national dailies in India and professional journals within and outside the country. The journals like IPRA Review, London, Media Asia, Singapore, Asia Pacific Public Relations Journal, Australia, Vidura, the media magazine, the Hindu etc. published his articles.
He served on a number of national academic bodies like the Indian Institute of Mass Communication, New Delhi, University Grants Commission, Banaras Hindu University, Osmania University, Telugu University, Mahila University, Tirupathi, Press Academy of Andhra Pradesh etc. Dr. Reddi was a member of the Andhra Pradesh Best Journalists Award Committee for more than six years, which selected best journalist and best Photographer of the State
At the age of 14, he had quit the school in 1947 and worked as an underground freedom fighter in Hyderabad Liberation Movement for more than one year. As part of his social responsibility Dr. Reddi established a Trust "CVN Public Relations Foundation" which has not only instituted Gold Medals in seven educational institutions for meritorious students in public relations and other areas but also helping poor students to pursue higher education besides promoting professionalism in public relations.
Awards and accolades at the State, National and International level, are a testimony to Dr. Reddi's outstanding contribution in the filed of public relations. Media India Award 1986, USA, PRSA Award 1995, Praja Sambandala Ratna Award 1996, Honorary Appointment to the Research Board of Advisors of the American Biographical Institute, US 1999, are only a few to quote. The Man of the Year (1997-98), Millennium Award for Public Relations Education 2000 and Lifetime Achievement Award 2006 are the other prestigious national awards that the national professional body of public relations practitioners – the Public Relations Society of India (PRSI), conferred on Dr. Reddi. On his Lifetime Achievement Award the PRSI in its citation stated "Dr. Reddi is an authority on public relations, an author of highly acclaimed books; an editor of the only journal Public Relations Voice, a pioneer of public relations education, an eminent visiting professor to both Indian and foreign Universities, Father of National Public Relations Day, a well-known broadcaster and journalist, a rare personality who combined in himself the qualities of both the practitioner and a teacher, above all, a person who with his unique attributes made an indelible mark on the map of Indian public relations, which will always remain green". In addition to the two lifetime achievement awards Dr. Reddi has been inducted to the "PRCI Hall of Fame" instituted by the Public Relations Council of India in March 2007.
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Dr. C. V. Narasimha Reddi,
Editor, Public Relations Voice
"House of Public Relations", 8-3-978/4,
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