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New Delhi: The list of ‘50 Most Influential Indians’ compiled by Fame India Magazine and Asia Post is based on a survey of 12,000 respondents across India. With 99.6 percent people voting/giving views in his favour, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is the most influential Indian and a mass leader.

If we ask you to find a platform that has Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren, Kerala CM P. Vijayan,  Mukesh Ambani ,  Ratan Tata & Ravish Kumar together in it, then you may certainly have a tough time in doing it. But we have one for you.  Fame India Magazine
and Asia Post  have together compiled a list of ‘50 Most Influential Indians.’

“The list is based on a survey that saw 12,000 respondents take part. These respondents, chosen from across the social, intellectual and professional lines included writers, artists, bureaucrats, senior journalists, social activists and businessmen. The man who has topped the list should not come at all as a surprise because he is not just the most influential Indian in India at this time but probably most influential Indian in the world, Prime Minister Narendra Modi. With 99.6 percent people voting/giving views in his favour, he is the most influential Indian and a mass leader,” informed Dr. Sandeep Marwah Chancellor AAFT University of Media And Arts and part of Fame India Selection Board.

Hindi heartland Uttar Pradesh’s Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has been liked by 97 percent of the respondents for his honest image and administrative qualities. Home Minister Amit Shah gets thumbs up from 96.5 percent for his determination, ability to take tough decisions and implement them. India’s well-known industrialist Ratan Tata has secured the fourth position with 95.2 percent votes. Mostly, people chose him on the basis of his social responsibility and astute entrepreneurial abilities. The fifth is Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani, the richest man in India. He was chosen by respondents primarily for his contribution towards making the power of the Internet grow deeper in society.

For his efforts towards successfully containing COVID-19 spread in the state, Kerala Chief Minister gets the sixth position. Sri Sri Ravishankar, spiritual leader and messenger of world peace secured the seventh position. Defense Minister Rajnath Singh has successfully made to the top 10. Respondents voted him for his clean image and efforts towards self-reliant India in defense manufacturing. The man of all seasons, NSA Ajit Doval, has secured the ninth spot, while Odisha chief minister who enjoys a great connect with common people, Naveen Patnaik comes 10th on the list. PM Modi’s handpicked man PK Mishra, his Principal Secretary is on the 11th position for his managerial skills and effective execution. The young and effective Chief Minister of Jharkhand, Heman Soren, is the 12th, and Delhi CM Arvind  Kejriwal has found the 13th place on the list.

Editorial director of Fame India Magazine, US Sonthalia on the preparation of the list said “There were a total nine heads including personality, impact, vision, image, pro-development outlook and efforts towards upliftment of the society under which we have carried out the survey to select these 50 most influential Indians of 2020. The number of respondents was around 12000 which includes people from the varied field like social work, theatre, cinema, art, journalism, industry, commerce and cooperative. Fame India’s objective behind acknowledgement of such people is to set a high-performance standard for the rest in the society”.

Founder of AAFT Sandeep Marwah said “These 50 Indians are the torch-bearers of the New India that we think of creating. The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand. These people are the living example of it”.

Nitin Gadkari, the Union Minister who will always talk of growth, development and is known to be the man of his words, is 14th. For making positive reforms in Railways, Piyush Goel gets the 15th rank. ‘Sushasan Babu’ Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar is the 16th for his pro-development governance in the state. Former health minister and BJP’s national president JP Nadda is the 17th, current Health Minister Dr Harshvardhan is the 18th, Lok Sabha speaker Om Birla is the 19th, while Baba Ramdev who has taken ‘swadeshi’ to new heights is the 20th influential man on this list.

NDA secured 37.36 percent votes in 2019 Lok Sabha polls and got 303 seats. While Rahul Gandhi-led UPA got 19.01 percent of the total turnout and managed to take the tally to 52. The brighter side UPA got eight more seats than 2014. Rahul Gandhi, being the face of the largest Opposition party, secured the 21st spot. Isha foundation’s head spiritual leader Sadguru Jaggi Vasudevan is 22nd. Bollywood star Akshay Kumar is 23rd. Union Minister for Parliamentary Affairs and Coal & Mines Pralhad Joshi has started a wave of reforms in the sector and thus gets 24th position, while Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar is 25th on the list.

Chief Minister of Goa and the suave politician Dr Pramod Sawant is 26th, Punjab Chief Minister and man of action Captain Amrinder Singh is 27th, Minister of State (IC) for Power and Renewables RK Singh is 28th and effective bureaucrat Ajay Bhalla (IAS) is the 29th on the list. The 30th on the list is Health Secretary Priti Sudan (IAS) who has been hitting headlines for all the good reasons of late. Dr Ajay Kumar (IAS), who has been immensely effective as Secretary Defence Manufacturing and Secretary Defence, has secured the 31st spot. India’s first Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat, the industrialist Gautam Adani, Pharma giant Cadila’s owner Pankaj Bhai Patel, Sajjan Jindal, Founder of Avenue SuperMarts Radha Krishna Damani, T-Series’ Bhushan Kumar, Industrialist much accessible to common people Anand Mahindra, Sulabh International’s founder Dr Bindeshwar Pathak and IFFCO’s MD & CEO Dr US Awasthi have been placed between 32nd to 40th in the list. Dr Awasthi is the only name from the cooperative sector to have made it to the list.

An IAS officer of 1987 batch (MP cadre) and Managing Director of Tribal Cooperative Marketing Development Federation of India Ltd (TRIFED) Pravir Krishna gets the 41st spot on the list. Krishna has the credit of steering the federation towards profitable avenues. Secretary Biotechnology department Renu Swarup (IAS), ISRO president K Sivan and Director of the National Institute of Virology Priya Abhraham have made it to the 42nd, 43rd and 44th spots in the list, respectively. On the 45th position in the list is PayTM Founder & CEO Vijay Shekhar Sharma. Apart from having been featured in the Time Magazine’s list of 100 Most Influential People, Sharma also has India’s digital payment revolution to his credit.

ICMR’s Dr Nivedita Gupta who has played a crucial role in strategic planning to augment the testing capacity for COVID-19 in India is the 46th on the list. AIIMS director Dr Randeep Guleria, Editor-in-Chief of Hindustan newspaper Shashi Shekhar, Magsaysay awardee journalist Ravish Kumar and Founder-Owner of Republic TV Arnab Goswami have secured the 47th, 48th, 49th and 50th spots on the list of most influential Indians 2020, brought to you exclusively by Fame India with Asia post as the research partner supported by AAFT University of Media And Arts.

New Delhi: A working women delegation from Afghanistan visited Marwah Studios to built a better relation between the two countries through art and culture.

The delegation consisting of nine women under the leadership of Sajia Shojaei Film maker who discussed the further plans of promotion of art and culture under Indo Afghanistan Film And Cultural Forum.

“We are very keen in building up healthy relations with Afghanistan. Number of times we have organized workshops and music concert by Ustad Eltaf Hussain Sarahang at AAFT. We have produced two of the short films, directed by Afghani producer. Recently an AAFT scholarship has been handed over to Embassy of Afghanistan for the deserving student,” informed Dr. Sandeep Marwah President of ICMEI & Marwah Studios.

Dr. Marwah honored and presented membership of International Women’s Film Forum to all the members of the delegation.

Noida: World Telecommunication Day (WTD)has been celebrated annually on 17 May since 1969. The date marks the anniversary of the founding of ITU on 17 May 1865, when the first International Telegraph Convention was signed in Paris. In 1973, the event was formally instituted at the ITU Plenipotentiary Conference in Malaga-Torremolinos, Spain. A poster was launched at Marwah Studios to mark respect to this day.

“The purpose of World Telecommunication and Information Society Day is to help raise awareness of the possibilities that the use of the Internet and other information and communication technologies can bring to societies and economies, as well as of ways to bridge the digital divide,” informed Dr. Sandeep Marwah Patron to IFUNA- Indian Federation of United Nations Associations.

“World Telecommunication and Information Society Day, like its predecessors, focuses on a particular theme for each event.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ And this year it is ‘Bridging the standardization gap’,” added Dr. Marwah also Ambassador of IHRO affiliated to United Nations.

Noida: The ninth session of 3^rd Global Fashion And Design Week Noida 2019 was inaugurated by the young star of Indian silver Screen Mohit Marwah along with his charming wife Antara Marwah, a well known international stylist took the whole lime light for all those minutes at the grounds of AAFT supported by International Chamber of Media And Entertainment Industry.

“The fashion industry changes from season to season, so it’s important for designers to keep abreast of the trends. This can be done by regularly reading industry journals and magazines,” suggested Antara Marwah to young designers.

“I think there is beauty in everything. What normal people perceive as ugly, I can usually see something of beauty in it. Give a girl the right shoes and she can conquer the world. Fashion is very important. It is life-enhancing and, like everything that gives pleasure, it is worth doing well,” said Mohit Marwah motivating the audience.

Mohit Marwah honored Anu Sinha for presenting a vibrant dance recital, Harshit Malhotra & Deepansh Malhotra of ENT Network for digital publicity, Ashar Uraini, Sangeeta Ilmi of Tia Herbs, Varnieka S Chauhan Tarot Card Reader for their participation and Saurab Agarwal and team for Makeup during fashion week.

A fashion parade designed and presented by the Embassy of Vietnam was applauded. Fifteen diplomats and their wives brought the beautiful collection of Vietnam designs and preferred colors on ramp. The international audience gave a huge response to this special show.” We are much obliged to Dr. Sandeep Marwah for giving us an international platform to showcase our range. This gesture has enhanced our relations to better platform. Indo Vietnam Film And Cultural Forum is doing great,” said H.E. Pham Sanh Chau Ambassador of Vietnam to India.

A fashion show comprising of large carefully designed clothes by the young designers was presented. Shikha Chauhan & Md Shahid designed the clothes influenced by Poland, Abhishekant Atri & Shweta brought Bulgaria on the ramp, Bhawna Agarwal & Tanya Goyal projected garments from Slovak, Sakshi Mittal & Yash Garg showcased Romanian range, Avid Ansari & Rimmy Verma highlighted India, Abhimanyu Kumar was impressed by Senegal, Palak Singh brought the range from Israel, Raunak Sharma from Gambia and Jagriti Kashyap used the ideas from Sudan.

“3^rd Global Fashion And Design Week comes to an end. We have achieved what we wanted to. 208 Designers, 63 rounds in 9 fashion shows, 750 dresses, 12 seminars, 12 workshops, 8 exhibitions, 8 book releases, 85 Models, 50 Countries participation, 34 diplomats and 24000 footfall has made GFDWN as one of the biggest fashion weeks of the World,” informed and thanked Sandeep Marwah the whole team of Ritu Lal & AAFT School of Fashion And Design, ICMEI, AAFT University, ASMS, International Forums and each and every participant.

Two scholarships announced by the World-renowned designer Stefano Ricci were handed over to two young designers Chitwan Kalsi & Akankshya Priyarshni Satapathy of AAFT School of Fashion and design to visit and be assistance to him for three months at Milan, Italy.

New Delhi: International Public Broadcasting Forum, International Film And Television Club, International Film And Television Research Centre, International Children’s Film Forum, International Women Film Forum and many other organizations where Sandeep Marwah has been chair for, all these organizations are working for the promotion of Education, Art and Culture and have supported residents of Bihar at one or other time.

Recently Sandeep Marwah was honored by Shri Shiv Pratap Shukla Union Minister of State, Ministry for Finance, Government of India for running most cost effective film school in the World. He has churned out 12000 media professionals from all the states of India including Bihar and 120 countries of the World. Citation read by Sewak Rajeev Kumar.

“Noida Film City is the fastest growing film city in the World with approximately 17000 Media professionals working in 3 shifts of 8 hours each and cascading effect is that 150,000 people earning their bread because of this film city including many from Bihar. Sandeep Marwah is the founder of this city,” added Sewak Rajeev Kumar President of the Association.

“I am obliged to the organization for considering me for this prestigious award,” thanked Sandeep Marwah while accepting the award from the Minister at Convention Centre, NDMC Complex, New Delhi in presence of huge audience.

Events

Noida: It was a great evening of 3rd day of First Global Fashion And Design Week Noida 2017 at Marwah Film City where thousands of young fashion designers gathered from all over India an abroad to celebrate fashion and design.

The event became much more important when Sandeep Marwah announced the launching of Indo Ukraine Art And Cultural Forum to be inaugurated by Lt. Gen. K.M. Seth former Governor of Chhattisgarh and Andrii Muliarchuk Deputy Head of the Embassy of Ukraine to India.

Sandeep Marwah immediately after the release of poster of IUACF requested both the dignities to be the first patron of this newly formed committee of International Chamber of Media And Entertainment Industry.

“It is great honor to be part of this organization from the time of its inception,”thanked Andrii Muliarchuk. “You will get my full support in developing solid relations with Ukraine,” added Lt. Gen. K.M.Seth. Later Marwah presented a memento of Global Fashion And Design Week to both the dignities. Dr. Ajay Kumar Director ASMS and Puneet Jindal CMO Marwah Studios also joined on the stage.