Uday Sahay

Uday Sahay is a voluntarily retired officer of the Indian Police Service (IPS). He went on to work in a variety of communication, media and public relations positions in India. He has also edited a book on Indian news media.
Police career
Prior to retiring from the AGMU (Arunachal Pradesh-Goa-Mizoram-Union Territories) I PS, Sahay, an officer of 1988 batch, spent ten years in active policing. During his career in the Indian civil service, besides holding assignments as Assistant Commissioner of Police, Deputy Commissioner of Police of two districts in Delhi and Superintendent of Police in Mizoram, he held a number of civilian posts, such as: Directorate of Information and Publicity of Delhi Government; Deputy Director General in Prasar Bharati; and Additional Director General (Communications) in the Organising Committee of Commonwealth Games in Delhi (till October 2010).
Subsequent career
He subsequently worked in media and communication management. He is Chairman and Managing Director of SAUV Communications Private Limited as well as MD and CEO of Bodhi Tree Life Learning Private Limited, . In 2016, he was elected as Secretary General of the Society for Social and Economic Development in Bihar and Jharkhand In 2016, he was also appointed as Pro-Chancellor in Indira Gandhi Technological and Medical Sciences University located at Ziro, Arunachal Pradesh, India.
He was a key media consultant for Sheila Dikshit’s campaign for a third term in Delhi’s Assembly. Sahay also held the position of the Chief Communication Adviser to the Global Bihar Summit. He was Communication Advisor to the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) and currently a Communication Consultant to Delhi integrated Multi-Modal Transport Systems Limited, and Lal Bahadur Shastri Institute of Management.
Publications
He edited the 2006 book Making News: Handbook of the Media in Contemporary India, published by Oxford University Press. As a photographer, he contributed 20 photos and also photo-edited a coffee table photography book entitled, Delhi: India in One City (2009), published by Academic Foundation. . In 2009 he authored, Media aur Jansamvad, with co-author Vartika Nanda, a noted journalist. More recently in 2013, he edited a coffee table book, Raj Bhavan of the Rising Arunachal Pradesh.
He has also written a number of articles for media journals and speaks on the media lecture circuit in Delhi.
Sahay has extensively trekked in Garhwal and Kumaon hills of the Himalayas. As Liaison Officer of the Government of India heading a group of pilgrims in the year 1997, he had the opportunity to trek to Kailash-Manasorovar. He used this experience to create a photography exhibition and talk series on Western Tibet and the Kailash-Manasarovar region. His photography of the region was exhibited at the Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) Gallery, New Delhi, in 1998; in 1999 in collaboration with Himalayan Heritage Center at Dehradun; and in January 2001 in the “Kumbh Mela” at Allahabad, in 2003 at Delhi at the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA) and then in Hong Kong’s Visual Art Gallery. He made a film in 2003 titled ‘Himalayan Mystique: Kailash.'
Awards
In January 2001, the Delhi Commission for Women honoured Sahay for his work done in partnership with the Commission. On April 2001, he was given an Award for Excellence in Public Service by the Non-governmental organization (NGO), ‘Awantika.' In 2006, he was conferred Radha Raman Award for excellence in media research. In 2009, the Public Relations Council of India gave him an award for PR Excellence in India. In July 2009, the Indian Ministry of Information and Broadcasting nominated him as Member of the Inter-Media Publicity Coordination Committee (IMPCC). In 2010, the Indian Institute of Learning & Advanced Development (INLEAD) nominated him as a Regent of the INLEAD Federation. In 2010, he was nominated to the Board of Studies of University School of Mass Communication (USMC), Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University.

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