Jubilee Post News & Views
Sri Dinesh Chandra Srivastava, an established name in the Hindi NewsMedia in UP, former GM of Rashtriya Sahara, Aaj & Dainik Jagran, today breathed his last at Metro Hospital, Noida after a prolonged illness.
He was getting palliative care at home and was taken into emergency where the Drs tried to revive his pulse, multiple CPR were given by the Metro Drs but his pulse could not be revived and his heart stopped pumping at around 1.30 pm afternoon today.
Sri Dinesh Chandra ji, also popularly known as DC Sir amongst UP media journalists and editors, breathed his last at Noida and his cremation will take place at Noida Sec-94 Antim Niwas. He is survived by his wife Smt Suman & four children- Siddharth, Sachin, Shalabh & Shipra and a large happy family of grand children.
DC Sir was born on 14th December 1945 at Gorakhpur in a large middle class family. His ambition and hard work helped him cross all hurdles and make a very successful, memorable and worthwhile career in Hindi NewsMedia/ Dailies. Starting as a Manager of one edition, he spearheaded successful launch of popular Hindi dailies like Rashtriya Sahara and then Akshar Bharat and also ran his own magazine- DASH based out of Delhi.
In his long 40 plus years of active career in Journalism , he was responsible for giving break to hundreds of budding Journalists and a scores of Editors benefited from his dynamic professionalism to make a successful daily edition and make it popular amongst the readers. His knack for Hindi newsmedia management , launching an edition with aggression and making it successful also made him the star of the Hawkers and the newsmedia teams wherever he lead from the front.
His personal gesture of treating and nurturing his teams with love and compassion and treating all as one family, made him a populist figure in his fraternity. DC Sir will always be remembered as a benchmark setter in Hindi newsmedia in UP and more so, as an excellent human being/ person of very high dignity& integrity, always ready to help and always available for anyone in times of need.
May his soul rest in peace, may he live upto eternity and keeps blessing us always
