PR Veteran Shri Naresh Kumar Passed away

Shri  Naresh Kumar was an energetic, dynamic person and capable of managing a giant organisation like PGCIL to the best satisfaction of everyone. Very charming personality.

PR Veteran Shri Naresh Kumar Passed away

New Delhi: Shri Naresh Kumar, Sr GM (Corporate Communications), POWERGRID is no more. He was admitted to Fortis hospital 2 days back for a blood sugar-related issue. He was past chairman of PR Society, Delhi.

Shri  Naresh Kumar was an energetic, dynamic person and capable of managing a giant organisation like PGCIL to the best satisfaction of everyone. Very charming personality.


An alumni of the prestigious Indian Institute of Mass Communication, (IIMC) at JNU Campus, New Delhi (Batch of 1991-92) besides holding a Bachelor in Honours & Masters Degree in Political Science from Delhi University and Master Degree in Mass Communication & Journalism from Algappa University, Tamil Nadu.

He has completed the Harvard Manage Mentor programme from Harvard Business School Online. He is a medallist in Business Management from Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan's Usha & Lakshmi Mittal Institute of Management, (BULMIM) New Delhi.

 

Recently he was featured in the coveted India’s 100 Most Important Professionals list (ranked 21) researched by Reputation Today. He was bestowed with the ‘Best PRO’ award by the Media Federation of India in 2009, Rashtriya Media Ratan Award in 2013 and 2015 by Media Press Club, Indian Achiever’s Award 2014 for Corporate Leadership in Public Relations, Indraprastha Media Rattan Award 2014, Best Communicator Award in 2016 by All India Media Educators & PR-Hall of Fame Award by Public Relations Council of India (PRCI) in 2016 for his outstanding contribution to the PR industry.

 

He has a wide range of experience of about three decades, in handling IPO/FPO, Indian Public Sector’s First InvIT, and other major Public Relations and Corporate Communications activities in India and abroad for POWERGRID. He was recently awarded the N.D. Rajpal Memorial Communicator of the Decade Award by PRCI and ‘Doyen of the Decade - Corporate Communications & PR in PSE’ by Enertia Awards.

 

He was serving as Senior General Manager Corporate Communications, POWERGRID and writes feature articles for leading National and Regional newspapers apart from delivering lectures in India’s premium education institutes and universities, central and state government and PSU setups. We have lost our best friend.

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