User:Nurul Islam Laskar

Nurul Islam Laskar

Nurul Laskar is the founder of the first Public Relations Agency in North Eastern region of India. Cabsford PR, founded by Laskar, commenced operation in September 2002. He was the Chief Manager (Public Relations & Community Services Banking) at State Bank of India, Local Head Office (North Eastern Circle) Guwahati during 1994-2002).During this period, SBI won the Mother Teresa Award for CSR from the Loyola Institute of Business Administration (LIBA), Chennai.

In 2015, Laskar founded the "Learning & Promoting Public Relations" (LeaP-PR) practitioners group to create a platform for PROs, PR educators, Corporate Communication officers, and alumni of MassCom & Journalism Departments of various colleges, institutes, and universities to remain engaged with PR activities, workshops, seminars, publications with a view to honing and enhancing PR skills of all stakeholders of the profession.

Nurul Islam Laskar, PR Consultant & Motivational Speaker

Nurul Islam Laskar was born in Shillong on June 18, 1950. He did his schooling at Govt High School Shillong, graduating from St Anthony’s College, Shillong with Honours in Political Science. He stood first among all graduates of Gauhati University in 1971 and was awarded a gold medal for the achievement. In 1972, he joined the State Bank of India as a Probationary Officer. In 1976, he was awarded the Rotary International Group Study Exchange Scholarship to visit on home stay in the state of Oklahoma USA. He was conferred Honorary Citizenship of Oklahoma during this visit. He also visited New York, Texas, and Washington USA as well as Toronto Canada on completion of the Rotary GS Exchange. In 1994, he passed his LLB from North Eastern Hill University (NEHU) securing the second position among all passed out candidates of the examination in that semester. He served as the Chief Manager (Public Relations & Community Services Banking) at SBI Local Head Office (North Eastern Circle), Guwahati during 1994-2002. He was recipient of Loyola College Chennai’s Mother Teresa Award for outstanding Community Service. In 2002, he took voluntary retirement from SBI and served as Consulting Editor, The Sentinel (English Daily) from 2002 to 2004 and as the founder Editor of the Sunday magazine “Melange.” Thereafter, he worked as Executive Editor, Eastern Chronicle (National English Daily) from 2009 to 2014. Simultaneously in 2002, Laskar set up CABSFORD PR, the first public relations agency of North East India. This agency had Bharti Airtel, NEDFi, SBI, and many other MNCs as its clients and provided internship to a large number of graduates passing out from various educational institutes of North East. Al through this period, Laskar served as an Associate Professor of Public Relations at the University of Science & Technology Meghalaya (USTM). He is one of the very few PR practitioners from the North East to have an MA degree in Public Relations. Presently he is pursuing his PhD in Public Relations at USTM. He is a visiting faculty of PR & Media Sciences, Communication Skills at Cotton University, Guwahati; Central Academy for State Forest Services Byrnihat Assam; Rajiv Gandhi University, Nahorlagun, Arunachal Pradesh; and Regional Institute of Science & Technology (RIST) Meghalaya. In April 2017, Laskar was invited by the Department of Mass Communication, Rajiv Gandhi University, Rono Hills, Arunachal Pradesh, to conduct a two-day workshop on ‘Advertising & Public Relations.’ The workshop was a great success. Laskar has in the recent past served as the Chief Adviser, Public Relations Society of India (PRSI) Guwahati Chapter and is the Founder Director of ‘Learning & Promoting Public Relations’ (LeaP-PR), an organisation to promote the practice of PR among the youngsters of North East. He is also the Chief Editor of the quarterly newsletter “Public Relations – Review & Research.” Laskar is presently Honorary Adviser to News.24hrs portal and Honorary Director of Seven Sense Communications (PR company). He is also a regular columnist in the Campus Supplement of the front ranking English Daily of Assam, The Assam Tribune. Laskar may be contacted at: 0-99541-91836 or nurul.laskar@gmail.com