Honorable Shri Govindlalji Vora is the Chairman of our society. He is a visionary who scaled new heights through his contributions to journalism, literature, education, politics and social causes.
He is also the Chairman of Pragati Education Foundation, PragatiShiksha Kendra, Pragati Education Society, Pragati College of Engineering & Management, PragatiGoenka International School as well as the Managing Director of PragatiPrakashanPvt. Ltd. and Pragati Press Pvt. Ltd.
Born in Nagaur, Rajasthan in 1932, he was the second child of Shri Mohanlalji Vora and Smt. Ambadevi Vora. He moved to Raipur, Chhattisgarh at a young age and was brought up there. He finished his matriculation from Raipur in 1950 and further went on to complete his Masters of Arts (M.A.) in Political Sciences from Sagar University, Madhya Pradesh in 1956.
Writing has always been his passion, so much so that he became a freelance journalist at a young age of 18. In his twenties, he was regularly writing for all the big and esteemed media houses at that time including the Hindustan Times, Nav Bharat Times, The Statesman, Illustrated weakly, Telegraph and Jai Hind. His writing style started to strike a chord with the public as he always called a spade a spade. So in 1959, it came as no surprise that a leading newspaper of undivided Madhya Pradesh appointed a young 27 years old Govindlal Vora as its Chief Editor. He was one of the youngest Chief Editors across the country at that time. He held the post of the Chief Editor until 1984.
An intriguing thing about Shri GovindlaljiVora’s writing style is his proficiency in both Hindi and English literature. In his twenties, he was regularly writing articles for both English and Hindi daily newspapers. In 1975, he also became the Chief Editor of Deccan Chronicle, an English daily newspaper. Through 1975 to 1984, he was the only person in the state, and probably one of the very few people in the country, who was simultaneously a Chief Editor for both a Hindi and an English newspaper. He also established an international reputation as some of his articles featured in renowned international dailies like Wall Street Journal (WSJ) and New York Times.
On October 1st 1984, he started Amrit Sandesh - his own Hindi daily newspaper. He is serving as it’s Chief Editor from 1984 until now. It is another one of his big achievements that he established Amrit Sandesh as one of Chhattisgarh’s well known newspaper.
Naturally, he was continuously recognized for his outstanding work in the field of journalism. He was awarded the Mehsoor Hindi SahityaParishad award and Pt. Haridutt Sharma Award. He was also invited to be a part of eminent journalists from print and electronic media who accompanied Prime Ministers like Smt. Indira Gandhi, Shri Rajeev Gandhi, Shri Chandra Shekhar, Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Shri P.V.Narasimha Rao on their visits to summits and conferences in various countries. He went to London on Commonwealth Heads meeting in 1986, Geneva (Switzerland) in 1985 on 71st International Labour Conference, Belgrade in Yugoslavia for the 9th Non-Aligned Movement Summit in 1989, Katmandu SARC Summit in 1987 and Washington DC for U.N. General Assembly in 1987. Latest of his visit was with Dr. Manmohan Singh on the G-20 Summit held at Pittsburg U.S.A. in 2009.
He was also a part of several journalistic organizations including the International Union of Journalists and the news agency UPI. He was one of the founding members of Indian Federation of Working Journalists Association and he was in the Board of the Indian Newspaper Society from 2006-07 to 2009-10. He also served as the President of ILNA (Indian Language Newspaper Association) and AINEC (All India Newspaper Editors Conference).
Rajeev Vora is the Secretary of our society. He is contributing with all his efforts in the fields of journalism, education, social works as well as politics. He is the younger son of our Hon. Chairman Shri Govindlalji Vora and Smt. Prakash Vora. He was born in October 1979 at Raipur. He finished his matriculation from Raipur and then went on to finish his graduation from Pune University. He further pursued an MBA in Project Finance from Institute of Management Education (IME), Pune. An Accredited Journalist in Govt. of Chhattisgarh, Rajeev Vora has also been a part of the company which runs Amrit Sandesh, ever since he joined it at a young age of 23 in the year 2002. He played his part in making Amrit Sandesh one of Chhattisgarh’s leading newspaper with a subscription of 75000+ copies.
Providing quality education to the children in rural areas has always been Rajeev Vora’s main motto and he has done that throughout his life until now. He is the Secretary of Pragati College of Engineering and Management, PragatiGoenka International School, PragatiSiksha Kendra &Pragati Education Foundation at Raipur. As a member on the boards of different educational institutes, he works towards bringing an educational reform in the state.
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