The Edutainment show' launched 'The Edutainment Awards

The biggest education festival and exhibition, ‘The Edutainment show’ launched ‘The Edutainment Awards’

100+ institutes of Media, Communication and Design, 15 eminent Jury members, 10 National Awards & 40 Zonal Awards

The second season of the biggest education festival and exhibition, ‘The Edutainment show’ envisioned by Deepak Choudhary, Director -Event Capital & promoted by Laqshya Media group launched ‘The Edutainment Awards’- India’s first ever most comprehensive evaluation and rating of media, design, communication & entertainment education on April 26, Saturday, JW Marriott, Juhu.

An eminent media educationist, Prof Ujjwal K Chowdhury anchored this initiative with distinguished jury members with the likes of Bhaskar Das- Group CEO, Zee Media Corporation Ltd, Gokul Krishnamurthy- Editor Campaign India, Sanjeet Saha- Star TV, Nikhil Garth D'rozario- Film producer, Veena Gidwani, Brian Tellis-Director, Fountainhead Events, Pranjal Khindadiya- VP, Sony group, Head, Sony Pictures, Samar Khan- Film expert, Preeti Vyas- Chairwoman at VGC & Kanika Mohan Saxena- Marketing Head, Prime Focus amongst others.

The awards were meticulously charted out based on parameters assessing the merit of the institutes across India(Performance figure of 2 years, infrastructure, affiliations, syllabi, alumni & network). The domains where top ten rankings and top three awards were felicitated were studies in Films, Television, Radio, Journalism, Advertising, Brand Communication, Fashion Design, Product Design, etc. The top three colleges were felicitated with gold, silver and bronze trophies to mark them as the top destinations for media, communication and design.

Deepak Choudhary, Director and CEO -Event Capital said, “ We take pride in presenting the ‘The Edutainment Awards’ that will bring students information about the right institutes for them in the alternative careers like design and communication which is doubling as an industry and fast. The most important aspect is that these awards will bring to forefront the prestigious institutes the glory they deserve for inculcation of excellence in the media industry.”

Prof Ujjwal K Chowdhury said, “This being the most comprehensive nation-wide rating-ranking-awards in the domain of media, communication and design education in India, we hope to place before some 120,000 applicants to these institutes and university departments every year a strong frame of reference, role-model institutes, best practices therein, and also help the institutes a platform to meet the peers and share learning for a higher level of professional education at Bachelors and Masters levels in the near future.”

A special life time achievement award was conferred upon Gerson Da Cunha & Subhash Ghai graced the awards with his presence!