All-India Family Planning Slogan

Extract from BHEL, Tiruchy’s house magazine 1st April 1979

” It is a matter of pride that in the all India Family Welfare Slogan contest two members

of the BHEL family  have shared the first prize of Rs.1000.  J.Swaminathan, Design Asst.coined

the slogan DELAY THE FIRST, SPACE THE SECOND AND STOP THE THIRD.

The joint  winner is Mrs. Rukmini Parthasarathy, Principal of the Gitanjali School run by the 

Ladies Welfare Center of Bhel, Hyderabad. Her slogan:LET’S HAVE TWO, THE FIRST AND

THE LAST. She is the wife of Mr.V.V. Parthasarathy, Manager, Public Relations, Hyderabad.

As many as 40,000 entries were considered and two of the best were  naturally from BHEL.”

About Vengrai Parthasarathy

A profile of Vengrai Parthasarathy (from Sahitya Akademi): Mr.V.V. Parthasarathy (Vengrai) the author is 88+ years old.He graduated from the Madras University and stayed on to complete his Law degree in the same Uiversity. Again in that University, he did a two-year course in International Law and Constitutional Law under late Professor C.H.Alexandrowicz. He had also done a course in Mass Communitations . Mr. Parthasarathy has had his professional career in the Public Relations, all of them in Public sectors like Indian Airlines, State Trading Corporation,Bharat Electronics and lastly in the Bharat Heavy Electricals, Hyderabad from which he retired. Over the years Mr. Parthasarathy has published several rticles in a variety pf Dailies and Periodicals, including The Hindu, The Statesman,The Hindustan Times, the Indian Express and The Indian Year Book Of International Affairs.Over a hundred of them have been embedded in the Vengrai.com Mr. Parthasarathy has published two books One titled THIRUPPAVAI published by the Ramakrishna Mission and a book titled SELECT HYMNS FROM THE DIVYA PRAPANTHAM published by the renowned Sahitya Akademi. He is now a retired Author who has settled down in USA with his two children, son VijayParthasarathy married to Hema, ( a Dentist) and daughter Rohini married to Partha Mandayam, a Computer Scientist, —besides grandchildren.

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