PRESS CLUB OF HYDERABAD (PCH)
6-3-645, Somajiguda, HYDERABAD – 500 082
040-23329799 / 23374897 Website: www.hyderabadpressclub.com
E-mail: hyderabadpressclub@rediffmail.com

 

To provide opportunities for recreation for Working Journalists and their families, the Press Club was founded In 1963, For many years it was housed in the APUWJ office building. As the strength of journalists increased many fold in Hyderabad City, we felt the need to get a separate building of its own. Through the efforts of APUWJ, the then Chief Minister Mr. Chandrababu Naidu allotted a sprawling bunglow at Somajiguda in 1998. Now, the Press Club expanded its activities for the recreation of not only journalists but also their families. For the last few years, the Club has been organizing film shows and picnics. It has a good Gym also. The Hyderabad Press Club is affiliated to the press clubs of Delhi, Kolkatta, Bangalore and Chandigadh. Emulating the example of the Hyderabad Press Club, the District Units of APUWJ formed press clubs at Vijayawada, Guntur, Karimnagar, Visakhapatnam, Tirupati, Cuddapah and Anantapuram and raised their own buildings. Similar endeavors are being made at various District towns.

 

President Sri R.Sailesh Reddy (M) 98490 25997

Secretary R.RaviKanth Reddy (M) 93910 27659

To provide housing to journalists, the APUWJ sponsored Journalists Co-operative Housing Societies at Hyderabad and Vijayawada. In Hyderabad. The Journalists Co-operative Housing Society developed Kotamraju Rama Rao colony at Banjara Hills on three acres of land provided by the then Chief Minister, Kasu Brahmananda Reddy at a nominal rate in 1969. About 42 journalists got house sites in 1971 there. The then President of India V.V. Giri inaugurated it. In the second Phase, the then Chief Minister Dr. Marri Chenna Reddy allotted 25 acres of land at Jubilee Hills. The Society developed house sites for about 224 journalists. The Colony was named after the legendary journalist, M, Chalapthi Ran in 1980. Later, successive Chief Ministers, Mr. T. Anjaiah and Mr. N.T.Rama Rao’s anctioned funds for the creation of infrastructure for the colony. In the third phase, the then Chief Minister Mr. Kotia Vijaya Bhaskar Reddy provided 60 acres of land at Gopannapalli near University of Hyderabad. The society developed the sites and allotted house plots to about 560 journalists there. Now we have approached the present Chief Minister Dr. Y.S. Rajasekhar Reddy to allot more land abetting the Gopannapalli site to provide house sites to journalists who are on the waiting list.

 

The Union sponsored the Film Critics Association in the ‘sixties and the Andhra Pradesh Photographers Association in the ‘eighties. The Photographers association is very active and it periodically organizes photo exhibitions at the union office Premises

 

To organize journalists of electronic media in the state on lines of Trade Union and uphold their skills and promote the highest standards of the profession of The electronic media and their welfare measures the Andhra Pradesh Electronic Media Journalists Association was registered under the Trade Unions Act. The APUWJ is closely associated with the activities of the APEMJA.