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  • The news network acknowledges the contribution of 25 Indian legends at an event

    NDTV turns 25 at Rashtrapati Bhavan, recognises 25 legends

    By A Correspondent

     

    We weren’t physically present or invited to give you a first-hand view, but given the significance of the occasion, we bring you a report nevertheless. On Saturday (Dec 14), NDTV marked 25 years of news broadcasting by acknowledging 25 Indian living legends for their outstanding contribution. They were acknowledged and felicitated by the  President Pranab Mukherjee at an awards ceremony held by NDTV at the Rashtriyapati Bhawan.

     

    Amitabh Bachchan, Anish Kapur, Amartya Sen, A R Rahman, CNR Rao, Ela Bhatt, Fali Nariman, Indira Nooyi, Hari Prasad Chaurasia, Kapil Dev, Leander Paes, M S Swaminathan, Mukesh Ambani, N R Narayanmurthy, Rajinikanth, Ratan Tata, Sachin Tendulkar, Dr SS Badrinath, S H Raza, Shahrukh Khan, Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Vikram Seth, Waheeda Rehman, Y K Hamied and Zubin Mehta were the ‘living legends’ recognized.

     

    Presenting the awards, Mr Mukherjee, said, “What is needed today and what we can draw lessons from the  outstanding performance of these 25 great Indians is that we cannot have a shortcut or a bypass to achieve the success, to reach the top, to be the models of others.”

     

    Addressing the ceremony, Dr, Prannoy Roy, Executive Co-chairperson, said, When we started the first private news on Indian television we were a bundle of nerves, you gave us strength at that time. When we produced India’s first 24 hour news channel 15 years ago, you trusted us then too and we value that trust till today. Tabloidization is a worry but I feel there is a back lash now. We hope and pray that sponsors and advertisers will give greater weightage to content and avoid promoting tabloidization. The time has come to launch India’s version of CNN or BBC or Al Jazeera. NDTV as a truly global channel in our sights, we need your faith, your support and trust in this venture too.”

     

    Partnering NDTV and Tata Consultancy Services in the 25 years celebrations were UFO Media and Hotel Taj Palace.

     

  • Lifetime Achievement Award for Kiran Karnik; IT return electronic filing project wins the Pathbreaker of the Year award.

    TCS CEO N Chandrasekaran wins the Dataquest IT Person of the Year award 2011

    By A Correspondent

     

    Natarajan Chandrasekaran, CEO of India’s largest IT Services company, Tata Consultancy Services, has been conferred the Dataquest IT Person of the Year award for 2011-one of the most coveted honours in Indian IT.

     

    The award is given by IT magazine Dataquest every year to an individual for making extraordinary contribution to Indian IT. The jury led by Mr Pramod Bhasin of Genpact (and 2010 Dataquest IT person of the year) unanimously decided on Mr Chandrasekaran who is regarded as the face of next generation leadership in the Indian IT. In the context of most of the first generation leaders stepping down, there was apprehension about a leadership vacuum being created. The jury felt that Mr Chandrasekaran, through his able leadership has proved that any such fear is unfounded.

     

    A TCS insider, Mr Chandrasekaran also stands as a role model for millions of programmers and engineers as he started as a trainee in TCS and rose to become its top leader.

     

    “Chandra’s able leadership is a testimony to the fact that Indian IT companies have it in them to grow extraordinary leadership internally,” noted Pradeep Gupta, Chairman of CyberMedia, the publishers of Dataquest. “The success of Indian IT is not a one-time achievement of only a few individuals,” he added.

     

    Kiran Karnik was awarded for his Lifetime Contribution to Indian IT. Mr Karnik, who led NASSCOM as president for seven years also headed the government appointed board of Satyam that moved fast and in a transparent manner and was instrumental in establishing the credibility of India in the wake of the Satyam crisis. He is also associated with many educational institutions.

     

    The online IT return filing system of the Income Tax Department, Government of India was awarded the Dataquest Pathbreaker Award for 2011 making the lives of millions of taxpayers smoother, while reducing refund time drastically and enhancing overall efficiency. Between 2004 to 2011, there are five government projects/companies/persons who have won this coveted award.

     

    The 2010 Dataquest IT Person of the year Award had gone to Pramod Bhasin, Vice Chairman (then CEO) of BPO company Genpact. And as the winner of the last year Mr Bhasin headed the jury this year that included Pradeep Gupta, CMD of CyberMedia India (as Vice Chairman); Vijay Thadani, CEO, NIIT; Shankar Aggarwall, Addl Secretary, Department of IT; Ganesh Lakshminarayanan, MD, Dell India; Col H S Bedi, CEO, Tulip; Amrita Gangotra, CIO, Airtel; Professor Pankaj Jalote, Director, IIIT Delhi, and Shyam Malhotra, Director, CyberMedia India.

     

    The awards, now in the 19th year, were conferred at a glittering ceremony in the presence of industry leaders and leading CIOs. The awards night this year also included the PC Quest Best IT Implementaation awards, given by PC Quest, another CyberMedia publication.

     

    Dataquest also honoured top manufacturers, service providers and institutions based on their Dataquest Top 20 rankings for FY 2010-11 and their performance in various surveys conducted by the magazine throughout the year.

     

    Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) retained its top position as the No 1 IT company and No 1 IT exporter. It also bagged the newly instituted Top Engineering Services company award.

     

    The Dataquest Top Personal Systems company award went to Dell India for recording the highest combined revenue in sales of desktops and laptops.

     

    Hewlett Packard (HP) India won the Top Server Company award while the newly instituted Top Storage Company award went to EMC India. With dominant market share, HP also won the Top Imaging and Printing Company for 2010 making it a total of two awards.

     

    Cisco India won the Top Networking Company award for recording the highest sales in networking equipment during 2010-11. The IT training pioneer NIIT won the award for Top Training Company for yet another year.

     

    IBM India remained ahead of others and won the top IT Services Company (India Market) award. The pioneering BPO Company Genpact with revenues of over one billion dollars bagged the Top BPO company award. Ingram Micro India bagged the Top Distribution Company award for 2011. SAP India topped the software products sales to bag the Top Software Company award for 2011.

     

    Despite tough competition from new pure play smart phone makers and Indian companies, Nokia continued to lead the smart phone market and bagged the Top Smartphone Company award for 2011.

     

    HCL Infosystems won the Best Employer (IT) award based on its No 1 rank in DQ-CMR Best Employer Survey (IT) 2011. BPO firm, vCustomer won the Best Employer BPO award for the fifth time in a row.IITBombay won the Top T School award based on its No 1 rank in DQ-CMR Top T School Survey 2011. It was the winner last year too.

     

    The winners are selected by a jury of eminent individuals from IT industry, IT user organizations and academicians among others. Some of the past IT persons of the year include Infosys’ NR Narayana Murthy, HCL’s Shiv Nadar, Wipro’s Azim Premji, NIIT’s Rajendra S Pawar, Bharti’s Sunil B Mittal, Genpact’s Pramod Bhasin, Cognizant’s Lakshmi Narayanan and former IT Secretary N Vittal.