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i) Have functioned as Manager (Public Relation) at Maharashtra Tourism Development Corporation (MTDC), on deputation and functioned as Public Relation Officer to Hon. Minister for PWD & Tourism, Maharashtra State.

ii) Have functioned as Public Relation Officer to Hon. Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra, on deputation.

iii) Have functioned in the Special Cell of DGIPR, created for Press Briefing to Hon. Chief Minister of Maharashtra.

iv) Have contributed at large for the development and successful launching of ‘Mahanews’- the web portal of Govt. of Maharashtra, created by DGIPR; Efforts appreciated by the Secretary of Information and Public Relation Department, Govt. of Maharashtra.

v) Have functioned as Co-editor of ‘Lokrajya’- the Mouthpiece Magazine of Govt. of Maharashtra; Work appreciated by the Chief Minister of Maharashtra.

vi) Have functioned as Departmental Liasoning Officer (D.L.O.) to the Minister (Industries), Minister (Energy), Minister (Textiles) and Minister (Employment & Self Employment).

vii) Have successfully completed 5-days Training Programme on Website Designing (Open Source) at Yashada, Pune from 15^th June to 19^th June 2009.

viii) Has been a Founder Member and Former News Editor of ‘Nipani Darshan’- a Local Cable News Service at Nipani, from November 2000 to March 2001.

ix) Have functioned as Correspondent at Nipani, for ‘Daily Sanchaar’, Solapur from June 2000 to October 2000.

x) Have functioned as Marketing Executive at Aptech Computer Education, Nipani from April 1997 to September 1997.

xi) Have stood First in the Merit lists of both B.J.C. and M.J.C. and was awarded with “Late Dr. N.B. Parulekar Paritoshik” from Shivaji University, Kolhapur as well as “Rajarshi Shahu Paritoshik” from Rajarshi Shahu Chhatrapati Memorial Trust, Kolhapur.

xii) Submitted dissertation to Shivaji University, Kolhapur on the subject “Media Coverage of Science News and Their Impact on People: A Comparative Study between Newspaper and Electronic Media”, as a Course part of M.J.C.

xiii) Have successfully completed six weeks Internship at P.T.I., Kolhapur during the year 1998-1999.

xiv) Have participated in three day workshop at Pune on ‘Research Methods for Film Studies’ organised by Resource Centre for Media Education and Research, Pune, during 4^th to 6^th September, 1999.

xv) Have participated in All India Photography & Photogenic Contest ‘Expose-2000’ organised by The Photography Club, Karnataka Regional Engineering College, Surathkal, during 25^th to 29^th February, 2000.

xvi) Speech on the subject "Kolhapur-chi Chitrapat Srushti" broadcasted through A.I.R., Kolhapur. Also have written special news stories for the infotainment programme "Prabhat Lahari" for the same station.

xvii) Have participated in Interschool Elocution Competitions; Received many prizes and certificates incl. Encouragement Prize at Kolhapur district level.

xviii) Have participated in Interschool and other Essay Competitions; Received Third Prize at State level in Open Competition organised by D.G. Copiers (Pune), Pvt. Ltd., Pune.

xix) Have participated in various Judo Camps.

xx) Have participated in Badminton and Volley-ball tournaments at various levels.

xxi) Have participated in various Singing Competitions. Also organised Charity Shows of Orchestra to help needy people of Society.