Awards Ceremony of Pride of Telangana at Trident, Hyderabad

 Hyderabad 28^th June 2018: Round Table India, is launching its prestigious Awards, Pride of Telangana Awards. It will be an annual feature from this year. Round Table will identify and honor those unsung heroes who are instrumental in bringing about a silent revolution. They make our community and society rich through their stupendous contribution. 

The details of the Awards categories were announced by the committee of ROUND TABLE INDIA.The Categories for Awards have been curated with great care and thought process. The Twelve categories for which Awards were presented are Sports, Special Award for Women, NGO, Retail, Film Artist, SME, Administrative Services, Food & Beverage, Medical, Start-ups, Arts & Culture, Education. 

Each category had two awards, one for the accomplisher, the ‘Achiever Award’ and the other for the most promising talent in the field, the ‘Emerging Award.’ Individuals or Organisations who achieved name and fame in their respective fields and are a role model to budding aspirants in the category, will be eligible for the Achiever Awards. The Emerging Award is an attempt to identify and recognise the budding aspirants for their achievements and contribution in their respective fields. Decisions taken by the board of Jury members will be final. 

We are overwhelmed and grateful to have an experienced Panel of Judges from diverse backgrounds who have excelled and created a mark in the society at large. The Judges will be shortlisting the award applicants. The Judges were: 

1. Mr. Jayesh Ranjan, Principal Secretary, I & C and IT, Telangana,
2. Mr. Srinivas Kollipara, Founder & COO, T-Hub,
3. Ms. Amala Akkineni, Former Actress& Co-founder – Blue cross of Hyderabad,
4. Ms. Rekha Lahoti, Founder & Director, Kalakriti Art Gallery & Krishnakriti Foundation,
5. Prof. Shantha Sinha, Padma shree Awardee, Founder, MV Foundation,
6. Mr. Vishnu Raju, Chairman & CEO, Exciga Group, Vice President – Olympic association of Telangana,
7. Dr. P.Raghuram, Director, Padma Shree awardee, Director, KIMS Hospital.

 Advisory Board Members

1. Mr Ravindra Agarwal, MD Ravi Foods (Dukes),
2. Ms. Rekha Lahoti, Founder & Director, Kalakriti Art Gallery & Krishnakriti Foundation,
3. Mr Yashwant Jhabakh, Founder & Chairman – Mahavir Group. 

The Timeline of the events was as below: 

June 6^th, 2018: Round Table India delivers a Press Meet at the Trident Hotel in Hitech City, where they announce a unique initiative to honour the achievers and felicitate the emerging personalities in the state of Telangana. 

June 7^th to 14^th 2018: The Pride of Telangana website is opened for nominations across 12 categories. The public response is excellent. By midnight of June 14^th, Three hundred and twenty six nominations were received. 

June 15th 2018: The esteemed Jury meets, discusses each category and debates on the nominations. A final list is created and shared with the Round Table Team. The Jury has decided on the ‘Achieved’ Category and shortlisted nominations for ’Emerging’ category.

 June 16th to 24th 2018: The Round Table India team showcases the nominations on the ‘Pride of Telangana’ website and the public voting begins. Thirty Three Thousand three hundred and twenty three votes are received and the public has voted for a winner in each of the 12 categories. 

June 27th 2018: A Grand Awards Night function is conducted at the glamorous Trident Hotel in Hitech City. The Jury members are welcomed on the stage and they award the ‘Achiever’ in each of the 12 categories. The ‘Achieved’, in turn, awards the ‘Emerging’ in his/her respective category. The list of the Award winners is as below. 

Round Table India has always emphasised on the fact that education is a greatest enabler and helps individual to achieve their dreams. To fulfil this aspiration, Round Table India will contribute the entire proceeds from this event towards improving the infrastructure in the government schools and towards welfare of children from underprivileged sections.

 About Round Table 

The Round Table is internationally, a friendship organization, founded in Norwich, England by Louis Marchesi, then a Rotarian in 1927. From a small group of 8 members, today it has grown to over 43,000 members across 52 countries representing every corner of the world. Round Table came to India in 1957. Over the past six decades it has grown to become a 4,000-member strong association. 

Round Table India (RTI) has around over 324 Tables located over 105 cities and towns, comprising of businessmen, entrepreneurs, technocrats and professionals, men who can rise above personal concerns to seek and serve the larger needs of the community. Since 1997 RTI, under "Freedom through Education", has built over 6100+ class rooms in 2425 School projects at an outlay of over 243.5 crores, impacting the education of over 7 million children. 

On the administration front, Round Table India has a very active National Board, which guides the affairs of the association. Round Table India is divided into 16 Areas, which have their own Area Board to administer them. The National Secretariat, the hub of all activities of Round Table India, is located in Chennai.  

Round Table India, is a zero overheads organization. Meaning, every rupee of funds raised goes towards our charitable goals. Our National goal is to ‘Build Schools for the Underprivileged’. The funds raised from this event will be used to build an eight classroom school block at Shivrampally.