Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Oct 31: Press Club of Jammu has been adjudged as the Best Club by 92.7 BIG FM, which declared the results of the latest category of the ongoing grand awards meant to be ‘For the City, By the City’- Big Jammu Pride Awards.
This month’s category was Best Club of Jammu, the award for which has been bagged, after a tough fight by ‘Press Club of Jammu’
An award function was organized in the premises of Press Club of Jammu in which Ashwani Kumar- president PCJ 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 said 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, included Manu Srivatsa, former president PCJ, Abhimanyu Sharma, vice president, Zorawar Singh Jamwal, secretary general and members of the PCJ Management Committee.
Syed Mujtaba Ali Jaffery, Cluster Head 92.7 Big FM J&K and Punjab, Vikrant Sharma, Cluster Programming Head J&K, Sidhharth Mahajan, Station Head Big FM Jammu and MJ Juhie were also present on the occasion.
Big Jammu Pride Awards are all about those things of Jammu that really make Jammuites feel proud of their 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 percent weightage) and Jury members’ benchmarks (which was given 30 percent 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 percent of the public voting.