On 30th July, 2018 at 11:30 a.m. AIR Pune organised an event in it's auditorium. During this event Shri. Mohan Bajare Executive Engineer CCW, Pune was given farewell, 'Best employee of the Month' prize for June 2018 were conferred and 'Best Employee of the quarter for working in official language (Hindi) was given.
The event started with the felicitation of Shri. Bajare. He was invited as chief guest and Shri. Ashish Bhatnagar, DDG(E) & Head of Office gave bouquet of flowers to him. Shri. Bajare is retiring on 31st July, 2018 on superannuation. Then Shri. Anil Pingale, PEX announced the name of Smt. Devaki Kulkarni as best employee from programme section. Smt. Kulkarni is working as Librarian. She was given a task of digitising the archival available with AIR Pune. She is also involved in screening of Marathi songs which are saved in server and all AIR stations in Maharashtra can access these songs. 95% of digitising of audio material available in Tape library has also been completed by her. Smt. Sangeeta Upadhye, Asst. Director (E), declared the name of Shri. Manoj Shaha, SEA as best employee from Engineering section. Shri. Shaha has recently joined AIR Pune and actively involved in various task like installation of Content Server in control room, Radio Automation etc. Few days back he went on tour to AIR Dharwad for giving training to technical staff about working of 'NETIA' & Radio Automation. Earlier also he visited many AIR stations and trained the staff. It was followed by announcement by Shri. Bhausaheb Pagare, Sr. A.O. He proposed the name of Shri. Sahebrao Sonawane, Asst. Director (O.L.) as Best employee from Admin. section. Apart from his routine work he is handling additional responsibility of Security Officer. He was appointed as Noddle officer during Parliamentarian Committee's visit to Pune. The committee comprised of eleven members from Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha. He coordinated with other Central Govt. offices. and made necessary arrangements for the meeting. All the winners received Memento from Shri. Bajare.
Shri. Sonawane, Asst. Director (O.L.) announced name of Shri. Hemant Ramteke for his contribution in using Hindi for official correspondence and helping during Parliamentary committee visit. This prize is given once in three month and on the basis of contribution in promoting Hindi as official language. Shri. Gopal Autee, Director (Prog.), Shri. Nitin Kelkar, Asst. Director (NEWS) graced the function. During the speech all officers congratulated the winners, thanked Shri. Bajare for his cooperation in official matters and wish him happy retirement. The function concluded after farewell speech given by Shri.Bajare. He appreciated the cooperation from Shri. Bhatnagar and other officials from AIR Pune.