DW BUREAU / Chandigarh School of communication Studies, Panjab University Chandigarh in association with Public Relations Council of India Chandigarh Chapter held an online annual alumni meet on 19 January. The opening remarks of the programme informing about the objectives and activities of PRCI at the National as well as International level, were given by Renuka Salwan who is the National Zonal Head, PRCI. Welcome remarks were presented by Dr Sumedha Singh, Chairperson, School of Communication Studies. Dr Singh said that happiness is present within us and its flow should be inside - out. Intro of the speakers was given by Charanjit Singh who is the Senior Vice President of national executive, PRCI and MD, Core PR,a PR agency in Chandigarh. The key speaker of the event was Vivek Atray, former officer, a motivational speaker, a columnist and Chairman, Chandigarh Chapter of PRCI. Kanwar Sandhu, MLA from Kharar, Panjab was the chief guest. The speakers talked about the happiness index of the world and how the media can play a role in that. Vivek Atray talked about the need of the media to highlight motivational news of the country and the world to give hope to the society and help in increasing the happiness index of people. He talked about the test match which India had won against Australia that day and how it's inside story could motivate people and increase their happiness index . Kanwar Sandhu talked about how people living in countries which have low temperature like Iceland and Denmark have better happiness index than warmer countries like India as their governments have strict guidelines of covering negative news like murders suicide etc than in India he further talked about how media should not glamorise the stories of suicide and murder as it can have very bad repercussions on the society. Both the speakers told the budding communication professionals to work responsibly as they will be largely responsible for the happiness index of the society. (editor@dailyworld.in)