MUMBAI: The judging process of The Indian Telly Awards 2002 got underway at Mumbai's Holiday Inn Hotel today. Instituted by television services company Indian Television Dot Com (which runs this portal), The Indian Telly Awards are into their second edition and cover more than 50 television categories classified under the Trade, Technical and Popular heads.

The popular jury, which is meeting over three days, includes noted film maker Ashutosh Gowariker, writer, producer and director Lekh Tandon, Percept Advertising CEO Rajesh Pant, former Sony programming head and writer Rekha Nigam, columnist Anil Dharker, media personality Dolly Thakore, documentary film maker and former Star Plus programming head Rakesh Sharma, scriptwriter Vinod Ranganathan, cinematographer Kiran Deohans, Rajtaru Videosonic CMD Ramesh Aggarwal, Crest Communications production head Charles Jacob and BusinessWorld media editor Vanita Kohli.

The jury is slated to watch nominations and entries sent in by more than 70 production houses and television channels which are to be screened for them. A large part of the award categories are to be decided by the jury while some of them will be put up for public polling in the coming weeks.

Watch this space on indiantelevision.com for further announcements!!