Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC) has played a pivotal role in prividing quality media education in the Third World since its inception way back in the 1960s, and created a massive pool of expert communicators, Nagaland University Chancellor Dr Samudra Gupta Kashyap said here on Saturday.
Presiding over the annual meeting of the North East chapter of the IIMC Alumni Association here on Saturday evening, Dr Kashyap, a distinguished IIMC alumnus, also called upon all aspiring journalists to aim at joining the IIMC for the best available media education in the country.
Jahnabi Phookan, a leading tourism and hospitality professional of the region, and a distinguished alumnus of IIMC was felicitated on the occasion. She was conferred a Lifetime Achievement award by the IIMC Alumni Association in its national meeting in Delhi last month. Speaking on the occasion, Jahnabi Phookan, who is also a former FICCI FLO President, recalled her days as a student of Mass Communication at IIMC. “When I chose to study mass communication at IIMC in the early 1980s it was still a new subject. Today a large number of students are opting for mass communication. It is a very good trend,” she said. Prof Shambhu Nath Singh , presently vice chancellor of Tezpur University and a former IIMC student who too was conferred the Lifetime Achievement award this year, could not attend the function.
Another distinguished IIMC alumnus Prof YSR Murthy, who is presently vice chancellor of Assam Royal Global University, while speaking on the occasion, said it was very encouraging that more students from the Northeast were choosing media as a career.
Senior journalist and Languages editor of Hindustan Times Digital, IIMCAA founder secretary and HT Digital editor Ritesh Verma also spoke at the meeting which was attended by a number of IIMC alumni from across the Northeastern region.
Connections is a series of meets that IIMCAA organises in various cities of India and abroad every year to reunite IIMC alumni.
