Uday Sahay

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Uday Sahay, [ [http://www.hindu.com/mp/2006/01/12/stories/2006011201070300.htm The Hindu : Metro Plus Delhi / Books : All you wanted to know ] ] an IPS officer of 1988 batch of AGMU Cadre, has the unique distinction of serving in media organizations for nearly a decade now, after having spent ten years in active policing. He is heading the ""Directorate of Information and Publicity"" since 2006 [ [http://publicity.delhigovt.nic.in/pages/charter.htm Citizens ] ] and, prior to that, was posted as the Deputy Director General in Prasar Bharati for over five years. His edited book published by the Oxford University Press, titled ""Making News"", [ [http://www.oup.co.in/search_detail.php?id=143918 OUP : Academic Books - Making News
Handbook of the Media in Contemporary India ] ] shot him into prominence in 2006 when it was declared as super brand as sixth bestseller in the non-fiction category [ [http://www.superbrands-news.com/category/writer Writer : Superbrands India - News, Views & Reviews ] ] [ [http://www.nwmindia.org/job_skills/reading_list/index.htm Network of Women in Media > Job Skills > Reading list ] ] . Contributing profusely to the media journals and delivering a series of talk popularly in the coveted media lecture circuit in Delhi – in all media journals and media institutes of national repute - has become his passion today. [ [http://www.iilm.edu/news_update.htm IILM Institute for Higher Education: IILM News & Events ] ] . He has been invited to deliver talk on media in prestigious institutions such as ""LBS Academy of Administration (Mussourie), European Commission, Delhi School of Economics, JNU, FMS, and IIMC"". He organized a number of seminars and workshops on media issues in Delhi, Patna, Jaipur, and Nainitaal. He is pursuing his PhD research on Media and Advertising in the Centre for School of Social System at JNU.

The most significant development in Sahay’s career of late however has been that he is perceived as a professional who has brought about a kind of turn around in the communication scale, style, and content of Delhi Government [ [http://southasia.oneworld.net/Article/state-run-radio-in-demand/?searchterm=uday%20sahay State-run radio in demand — OneWorld South Asia Home ] ] . Much talked about of his experiments in brand and functional campaigns are advertorials in print media, radio jingles and TV spots in audio-visual media and outdoor publicity in bus-queue-shelters and metro trains. In addition, he is now working on a Coffee Table book, titled as ""India in One City"", on Delhi, as photo-editor, in which the text editing is being done by Malavika Singh (the Editor of Seminar). This book is likely to get released by July 2008.

Sahay’s ten years of passionate involvement in media research, media training and media education has earned him the reputation of an ace communication analyst.

Biography

After initial schooling at Calcutta, College education at Patna and Post Graduation in Sociology from Delhi School of Economics, Sahay joined the Central Trade Service and was posted at Calcutta and Jaipur as Assistant Chief Controller of Imports & Exports. After his two years stint as ACP Preet Vihar and Patel Nagar Sub-Divisions of Delhi, he was posted as Superintendent of Police in one of the remotest districts for 3 years in Mizoram. Sahay returned to Delhi and got posted as Additional DCP in North West District [ [http://www.indianexpress.com/res/web/pIe/ie/daily/19990304/ige04091.html Serial rapist arrested in Delhi ] ] [ [http://www.india-today.com/webexclusive/dispatch/20000930/sayantan.html India Today Group Online > Web Exclusive >Despatches ] ] and subsequently as Deputy Commissioner of Police, PCR. He held the district charge of West District since 1998 end and took charge of Central District, Delhi in July 2000 where he remained till August 2001. It was in 2001 that he joined Prasar Bharati. [http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=190073]

His other passions: Uday Sahay has a keen interest in painting, poetry, writing and literature and he has to his credit several write-ups and short stories on social issues, especially Child’s Rights, in leading journals and magazines. His poetry collection is under compilation. A cartoon contest on media organized by him in July 2003 at India Habitat Centre in Delhi drew heavy media attention.

Sahay has extensively trekked in Garhwal and Kumaon hills of Himalayas. He has also trekked to Kailash–Manasarovar as Liaison Officer of Government of India heading a group of pilgrims in the year 1997. His photography exhibition–cum–talk series on Western Tibet and Kailash–Manasarovar region at I.C.C.R gallery, New Delhi was held in 1998. It was held again in 1999 in collaboration with Himalayan Heritage Center at Dehradun and further in January 2001 in the “Kumbh Mela” at Allahabad, under the auspices of India Heritage Research Foundation and inaugurated by His Holiness, Dalai Lama. In 2003, it was repeated in Delhi at IGNCA and then in Hong Kong’s Visual Art Gallery. He made a film in 2003 titled ‘Himalayan Mystique: Kailash. [ [http://www.parmarth.com/updates/janfeb2003/index.html Parmarth Update - January - February 2003 ] ]

Awards

*2001: commended by Delhi Commission for Women
*2001: Award for Excellence in Public Service, Awantika
*2006: Radha Raman Award for excellence in media research

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