Prime Point Foundation

Prime Point Foundation
Founded Dec 1999
Founder Krishnaswamy Srinivasan
Type Non Government Organisation
Location
Slogan Communicate the Communication
Website Foundation

Prime Point Foundation, officially inaugurated in December, 1999,[1] is a not-for-profit organization, founded by Krishnaswamy Srinivasan popularly known as Prime Point Srinivasan, a communication expert, social worker and former banker. Dr. M. S. Swaminathan, an agricultural scientist inaugurated the trust. The present trustees include the founder; and S. Narendra, a former spokesman of the Government of India and former information advisor to the Prime Minister of India. The trust aims to create awareness about communication, journalism and public relations among the management students of Indian universities and colleges.

Participation

Since its inception, a number of eminent Indians from diverse fields have participated in the activities of the Prime Point Foundation including Sri Jayendra Saraswathi Swamigal, M. S. Swaminathan, T S Krishnamurthy, N Rangachary, T S Raghavan, N Vittal, Yagnaswami Sundara Rajan, N Gopalswami and many others.

Activities

The foundation facilitates a number of activities. Its training division organises workshops covering areas like strategic corporate communication, stress management, and team building. It has also facilitated establishment of at least three more organisations to serve the PR requirements of the corporates and other entities, namely,

Moreover, to encourage the awareness about public relations and to recognise exemplary contributions in the field of public relations, the foundation has also presented a number of awards:

The foundation is also associated with a number of online activities. For instance, the Foundation maintains India Vision 2020, a website inspired by the book India 2020.

Recently, the foundation pioneered utilization of the medium of wiki to create a syllabus for PG Diploma Course in Communications and PR [3] by one of the leading universities of India, the Anna University Coimbatore. Building of syllabus for a university accredited course using the medium of wiki was accomplished first time in the world as indicated by Dr. Radhakrishnan, the Vice Chancellor of the university.

Sansad Ratna Award

Since 2010, the Foundation presents Sansad Ratna Award to top performing Lok Sabha Members based on their participation in debates, introduction of private members bills and raising questions.

Online publications

The foundation manages discussion groups on Public Relations, Communication and Journalism.

It also publishes India's first PodMagazine [4] titled 'PodUniversal'. As at February 2014, it has published more than 300 podcasts on various themes, covering health, education, public relations, communication, media, economics, technology, national development, etc.

Since March 2006,it has published a corporate monthly ezine titled 'Pre-Sense' Each month, the ezine spreads positive vibrations. Many eminent people have either guest edited or contributed their views. The Ezine has received Awards from Association of Business Communicators of India and Public Relations Council of India. It was the media partner for the 5th World PR Conference held in June 2008 organised by Chartered Institute of Public Relations at London, and was also the Media Partner for the International PR Conference held in Detroit in October 2008 hosted by Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) and Global PR Conference held at Bangalore during April 2009 by Public Relations Council of India (PRCI)

Since January 2013, the Foundation is publishing a Tamil ezine titled New Gen Thamizhan to promote positive awareness among youth. The Tamil ezine was launched online by Mr Ponraj Vellaichamy, Advisor to Former Indian President Dr APJ Abdul Kalam.[5]

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References

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