As digital takes center-stage in the continuously evolving marketplace of today, ABP Majha organized a special event, ‘Majha Maharashtra, Digital Maharashtra 2021’to educate people and bridge the gap between technology and ‘the common man.’

Since digital technologies played an extremely crucial role during the COVID-19 pandemic, the theme of the event was ‘Digital Transformation and Ecosystem in the Post-COVID world’.

The event brought various experts on a common platform to discuss and spread knowledge about the important, pertinent, and emerging aspects of digital technology, along with their impact on everyday life.

This year, the special event brought to the fore various challenges, opportunities, and avenues for growth in the digital sphere. With insightful deliberations on a diversity of topics such as OTT regulations, Digital Education, Online Fraud, and E-Rojgar, Majha Maharashtra, Digital Maharashtra 2021educated and enlightened various Indians in all walks of life.

The knowledge-sharing platform marked the presence of eminent personalities such as Minister of Information & Broadcasting Prakash Javadekar, Ranjit Disale (global teacher award winner), and film actor Shreyas Talpade.

Ranjit Disale led the session on ‘Digital Education’, whereas the ‘OTT Regulations’ session had Nitin Vaidya (film producer), Swapnil Joshi, and Shreya Bugade as speakers. Nadeem Inamdar (Manager, Information Security Department Saraswat Co-operative Bank LTD) and Prashant Mali led the session on ‘Digital Fraud’ and Ashok Chhajer (Chairman & MD Arihant Infrastructures LTD) conducted a session on ‘Digital transformation in Infrastructure’.

Three special sessions on ‘New Digital Path’ were conducted by Akshay Bardapurkar (Planet Marathi founder), Vilas Shinde (Sahyadri Farms owner) and Kailash Katkar (Quickheal).

Other key sessions at the event were led by Sanket Zaware (Chief Manager & Head Digital Banking Dept Saraswat Co-Operative Bank Ltd), Vrushali Deshpande (Manager, ABP weddings) and Mr. Hemant Nerkar (Head of Property Division, Property Inspection).

As a part of Majha Maharashtra, Digital Maharashtra 2021, ABP Majha had also planned a blogger contest where four bloggers were felicitated at the event for their extra-ordinary work. As thousands of bloggers post on ABP Live’s blog section, the channel took the opportunity to pick the best ones. The winners for the blogger contest were Yashodhan Joshi and Kaustubh Mudgal (1st); Anil Govilkar (2nd), and Nitin Salunkhe and Amol Kulkarni (3rd).

According to an official statement from the company, for the first time in the history of this event, ABP Majha introduced a ‘Meme Contest’ to engage with the viewers and encourage them to use their creativity.

Viewers were asked to come up with clever memes on a whole range of topics and share their submissions with the news channel. The viewers enthusiastically participated in this contest, and the winners for this contest were Aniket Medhekar (1st), Rutuja Ravindra Patil (2nd) and Kshitij Varma and Faizal Khan (3rd).

‘Majha Maharashtra, Digital Maharashtra 2021’will be telecast on ABP Majha from March 25-28, 2021, 4:30 PM to 5:00 PM.