Jagjit Singh Dardi

Jagjit Singh Dardi (born 19 January 1949) is an Indian journalist and an educationist from Punjab. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Punjabi language daily newspaper Chardikala, a newspaper that was started in 1977. In 1970 Dardi started a fortnightly Charhdikala Marg, whose Founder Editor was his father G Harnam Singh. This fortnightly paper was converted into a daily newspaper in 1977.^[1] He is the Chairman of the Punjabi news channel Chardilkala Time TV. He is also the Chairman of Sri Guru Harkrishan Group of Institutes, a chain of higher education institutes.^[2]^[3] He was awarded Padma Shri in the year 2022 for his services in national integration, communal harmony, contributions in the field of media, education and promotion of Punjabi language, culture and heritage.In 2022, Department of Public Relations Chandigarh administration announced Dardi as a Chairperson of the Chandigarh Press Accreditation Committee.^[4] Punjabi Media house Nirpakh Post and published a biography of Dardi.^[5]

Awards and recognitions

In the year 2022, Govt of India conferred the Padma Shri award, the third highest award in the Padma series of awards, on Jagjit Singh Dardi for his distinguished service in the field of trade and industry.^[6] The award is in recognition of his service as a "Veteran Punjabi Media Leader and Educationist, Chairman of Chardikala group".^[7]

Other recognitions conferred on Jagjit Singh Dardi include:^[8]

Shiromani Patarkar Award by President of India in 1998
Shiromani Sahitkar Award by Govt. of Punjab in 1992
Honoured by World Punjabi Conferences in 1997 in the US and in Canada in 1989
Member of Press/ Media Advisory Committees of Lok Sabha in 1997-98 and Rajya Sabha in 2014
Member of the executive committee of The Newspaper Society (INS) since 1988
Member of Press Council of India since 2001
Member of Prime Ministers' media delegation since 1993

References

^ "Chardikla group celebrated Media baron Jagjit Singh Dardi's birthday". Royal Patiala. Royal Patiala. Retrieved 21 February 2022.
^ Exchange4Media Staff. "Veteran journalist Jagjit Singh Dardi to be conferred with Padma Shri". e4m. exchange4media. Retrieved 21 February 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
^ "Founder of Sri Harkrishan group of Institutes - Jagjit Singh Dardi". The Press Reader. Retrieved 21 February 2022.
^ "ਚੰਡੀਗੜ੍ਹ : ਪ੍ਰੈਸ ਐਕਰੀਡੇਸ਼ਨ ਕਮੇਟੀ ਦਾ ਪੁਨਰਗਠਨ, ਜਗਜੀਤ ਸਿੰਘ ਦਰਦੀ ਚੇਅਰਮੈਨ ਬਣੇ" [Chandigarh: Reconstitution of Press Accreditation Committee, Jagjit Singh Dardi became Chairman]. Babushahi.com (in Punjabi). 24 November 2022. Retrieved 4 September 2023.
^ "'ਪਦਮ ਸ੍ਰੀ' ਤੱਕ ਪੁੱਜਣ ਵਾਲਾ ਪੱਤਰਕਾਰ 'ਦਰਦੀ'" [The journalist who reached 'Padma Shri' is 'Dardi'.] (in Punjabi). 25 February 2023.
^ "Padma Awards 2022" (PDF). Padma Awards. Ministry of Home Affairs, Govt of India. Archived (PDF) from the original on 25 January 2022. Retrieved 11 February 2022.
^ "Padma Awards 2022". Padma Awards. Ministry of Home Affairs, Govt of India. Archived from the original on 29 January 2022. Retrieved 11 February 2022.
^ "Padma Shri Award for Jagjit Singh Dardi". Patiala Politics. Patiala Politics. Retrieved 21 February 2022.

[1] "Chardikla group celebrated Media baron Jagjit Singh Dardi's birthday". Royal Patiala. Royal Patiala. Retrieved 21 February 2022.

[2] Exchange4Media Staff. "Veteran journalist Jagjit Singh Dardi to be conferred with Padma Shri". e4m. exchange4media. Retrieved 21 February 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)

[3] "Founder of Sri Harkrishan group of Institutes - Jagjit Singh Dardi". The Press Reader. Retrieved 21 February 2022.

[4] "ਚੰਡੀਗੜ੍ਹ : ਪ੍ਰੈਸ ਐਕਰੀਡੇਸ਼ਨ ਕਮੇਟੀ ਦਾ ਪੁਨਰਗਠਨ, ਜਗਜੀਤ ਸਿੰਘ ਦਰਦੀ ਚੇਅਰਮੈਨ ਬਣੇ" [Chandigarh: Reconstitution of Press Accreditation Committee, Jagjit Singh Dardi became Chairman]. Babushahi.com (in Punjabi). 24 November 2022. Retrieved 4 September 2023.

[5] "'ਪਦਮ ਸ੍ਰੀ' ਤੱਕ ਪੁੱਜਣ ਵਾਲਾ ਪੱਤਰਕਾਰ 'ਦਰਦੀ'" [The journalist who reached 'Padma Shri' is 'Dardi'.] (in Punjabi). 25 February 2023.

[PadmaShri2022-6] "Padma Awards 2022" (PDF). Padma Awards. Ministry of Home Affairs, Govt of India. Archived (PDF) from the original on 25 January 2022. Retrieved 11 February 2022.

[PadmaShri2022Images-7] "Padma Awards 2022". Padma Awards. Ministry of Home Affairs, Govt of India. Archived from the original on 29 January 2022. Retrieved 11 February 2022.

[8] "Padma Shri Award for Jagjit Singh Dardi". Patiala Politics. Patiala Politics. Retrieved 21 February 2022.

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v t e Recipients of Padma Shri in Trade & Industry
1950s	Atma Ram (1959)
1960s	Adinath Lahiri (1960) Vithalrao Vikhe Patil (1961) Verghese Kurien (1965) Ebrahim Alkazi (1966) A. Nagappa Chettiar (1967) Ved Rattan Mohan (1967)
1970s	Khailshanker Durlabhji (1971) Udaybhansinhji Natwarsinhji Jethwa (1971) Devi Sahai Jindal (1971) Yelavarthy Nayudamma (1971) Prem Nath Sahni (1971) H. D. Shourie (1971) Mohanmullji Chordia (1972) Waman Dattatreya Patwardhan (1974)
1980s	Jadunath Supakar (1985) Nelly Sethna (1985) Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw (1989) Lila Poonawalla (1989)
1990s	B. V. Rao (1990) Vasantrao S. Dempo (1991) Ramesh Gelli (1991) Lalchand Hirachand (1992) K. M. Mammen Mappillai (1992) Meenakshi Sargogi (1992) Harshavardhan Neotia (1999)
2000s	N. R. Narayana Murthy (2000) Kandathil Mammen Philip (2001) Kallam Anji Reddy (2001) Nalli Kuppuswami Chetti (2003) Sharayu Daftary (2004) Shahnaz Husain (2006) Suresh Krishna (2006) Rajinder Gupta (2007) Naina Lal Kidwai (2007) A. Sivasailam (2007) Amit Mitra (2008) R. K. Krishna Kumar (2009) B. R. Shetty (2009)
2010s	T. N. Manoharan (2010) Kapil Mohan (2010) Karsanbhai Patel (2010) B. Ravi Pillai (2010) Deepak Puri (2010) AVS Raju (2010) Venu Srinivasan (2010) Irshad Mirza (2010) Mecca Rafeeque Ahmed (2011) Sat Pal Khattar (2011) Kailasam Raghavendra Rao (2011) Arun Firodia (2012) Priya Paul (2012) Gopinath Pillai (2012) Swati Piramal (2012) Shoji Shiba (2012) Hemendra Prasad Barooah (2013) Milind Kamble (2013) Vandana Luthra (2013) Rajshree Pathy (2013) Kalpana Saroj (2013) Ravi Kumar Narra (2014) Pratap Govindrao Pawar (2014) Rajesh Saraiya (2014) Mallika Srinivasan (2014) T. V. Mohandas Pai (2015) Ajaypal Singh Banga (2016) Keki Hormusji Gharda (2016) Dilip Shanghvi (2016) Mahesh Sharma (2016) Saurabh Srivastava (2016) Rameshwarlal Kabra (2018) Shantanu Narayen (2019)
2020s	Jai Prakash Agarwal (2020) Sanjeev Bikhchandani (2020) Bharat Goenka (2020) Vijay Sankeshwar (2020) Romesh Wadhwani (2020) Prem Watsa (2020) Sridhar Vembu (2021) Prahlad Rai Agarwala (2022) Jagjit Singh Dardi (2022) Muktamani Devi (2022) Ryuko Hira (2022) Rakesh Jhunjhunwala (Posthumous) (2023) Areez Khambatta (Posthumous) (2023) Kumar Mangalam Birla (2023)