The biggest education festival and exhibition, ‘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.

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

Category	Golden	Silver	Bronze
Advertising School	MICA-Ahmedabad	SIMC-Pune	Northpoint-Lonavla
Design School	NID- Ahmedabad	Srishti Institute of Design- Bengaluru	DSK International School of Design, Pune
PR  & Events	Xaviers Institute of Communication, Mumbai	Symbiosis Institute of Media & Communication, Pune	Mudra Institute of Communication, Ahmedabad (MICA)
Film  & Television	Whistling Woods International, Mumbai	Film and Television Institute of India,Pune	Jamia Millia University, New Delhi
Journalism Schools	ACJ Chennai	Malayala Manorama School of Journalism, Kerala	IIJNM, Bengaluru
Photography (National)	One School Goa, Goa	FX School, Mumbai	Bharatiya Vidyapeeth School of Photography, Pune
Media (National)	Mudra Institute of Communication, Ahmedabad (MICA)	Asian College Of Journalism, Chennai (ACJ)	Symbiosis Institute of Media & Communication, Pune
Media National (UG)	FLAME, Pune	Symbiosis Institute of Media & Communication, Pune	NBA School of Mass Communication, Delhi
Animation & Graphics (National)	DSK International School of Design, Pune	National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad	Maya Academy of Advanced Cinematics
Emerging (National)	G D Goenka School of Fashion & Design, Gurgaon	Indian School of Design & Innovation, Mumbai	MIAMI Ad School, Mumbai
Design (East)	IIT-Department of Design, Guwahati
Design (North)	Pearl Academy, New Delhi	Ansal University School of Design, Gurgaon	Apeejay school of design new delhi
Design (West)	National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad	DSK International School of Design, Pune	MIT Institute of Design, Mumbai
Design (South)	Srishti Institute of Design, Bengaluru	D J Academy of Design, Coimbatore	Raffles Millennium International, Bengaluru
Design (National)	National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad	Srishti Institute of Design, Bengaluru	DSK International School of Design, Pune
Fashion (National)	National Institute of Fashion Technology	Pearl Academy, New Delhi	Raffles Millennium International, New Delhi
Media Comm North	Jamia Millia University (Media Department)	Indian Institute of Mass Communication, New Delhi	Amity School of Communication, Noida
Media Comm West	Mudra Institute of Communication, Ahmedabad (MICA)	Symbiosis Institute of Media & Communication, Pune	Xaviers Institute of Communication, Mumbai
Media Comm East	NSHM Insitute of Media & Design , Kolkata	Indian Institute of Mass Communication- Dhenkanel	Calcutta Media Institute, Kolkata
Media Comm South	Asian College of Journalism, Chennai	Christ University, Bangalore	Manipal Institute Of Communication, Manipal
Emerging Media Schools (National)	WWI School of Media & Communication, Mumbai	ILEAD, Kolkata	Calcutta Media Institute, Kolkata

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.”

Event Capital

Event Capital specializes in creating successful Intellectual Property Events. It is a joint venture between Deepak Choudhary, founder of EMDI & eventfaqs and Alok Jalan, the Managing Director of the Laqshya Media Group. They share a vision to be the country’s leading firm of intellectual property in the events and experiential marketing space. The services offered by Event Capital include the creation and support of Event IPs via research, funding, and planning, marketing and sales expertise present within the team. India Kids Fashion Week & BFI (Bike Festival of India with Dhoni) to name few. (Website: www.eventcapital.in )