STATE TIMES NEWS
JAMMU: 92.7 BIG FM has declared the results of the latest category of the ongoing grand awards which are meant to be ‘For the City, By the City’- Big Jammu Pride Awards. This month’s Best Club of Jammu award has been bagged, after a tough fight, by Press Club of Jammu.
Big Jammu Pride Awards are all about those things of Jammu that really make us feel proud of our city. It may range from a street, eating joint, restaurant, theatre, monument, heritage place, tourist destination to a bazaar, hospital, mall etc.
People were first asked to nominate their favorite Club and Top 4 Clubs were chosen which included Jammu Club, Amar Singh Club, Press Club and Jammu Tawi Golf Course (in random order). People were then asked to vote for their favorite one to make it Jammu’s No 1.
On the basis of public voting through Whatsapp, Facebook and On-air Calls (which carried 70 per cent weightage) and Jury members’ benchmarks (which was given 30 per cent weightage), the cumulative results were in favour of Press Club of Jammu which after giving a tough fight to the rest of the Clubs got almost 65 per cent of the Public Voting. An award function was organised in the premises of Press Club of Jammu in which Ashwani Kumar- President Press Club and other members of the Management Committee of the Club were felicitated by BIG FM Team and Jury member- Prof. Parikshat Singh Manhas, Director School of Hospitality and Tourism Management, Jammu University.
Ashwani Kumar congratulated all the members of the Club and all the people who voted for the club and opined that this award has increased the responsibilities of the Management Committee to further improve and deliver upto the expectations of the voters.
Others present on the occasion were Manu Srivatsa, former president PCJ, Abhimanyu Sharma, Vice President, Zorawar Singh Jamwal, Secretary General, Ajay Bachloo, Deepak Khajuria, Surjeet Singh and Vishal Bharti, members, management committee.
Syed Mujtaba Ali Jaffery, Cluster Head 92.7 Big FM J&K and Punjab expressed his gratitude to the jury and all the participating clubs who really took this challenge in a healthy way. Also present on the occasion was Vikrant Sharma, Cluster Programming Head J&K, Sidhharth Mahajan, Station Head Big FM Jammu and MJ Juhie.
