The JCI Creed
We believe
That faith in God gives meaning and purpose to human life;
That the brotherhood of man transcends the sovereignty of nations;
That economic justice can best be won by free men through free enterprise;
That government should be of laws rather than of men;
That earth’s great treasure lies in human personality;
And that service to humanity is the best work of life.
C. William Brownfield, 1946 · read at every JCI gathering
From one region to all four
Utsav started in 2025 as a Region A gathering — one day, eight towns. Utsav 2.0 is the whole zone. It is ZoneCon, the annual conference of JCI India Zone 26, and every Local Organization from Kurnool to the Godavari has a seat in Nellore for two days.
One zone, one venue
44 Local Organizations, four regions, one hall. JCI Nellore Town hosts — the LO that co-hosted the first Utsav now takes the chair.
Two days, and one long night
Conclave, awards, pageantry and the banquet on 21 November; the reports, the oath of new office and the close on 22 November. See the programme →
Members and guests
Members register with their LO name and JCI number. Not a member yet? You do not need to be — guests register with neither, at the same fee.
Twenty-four titles
Nine individual awards and fifteen for Local Organizations, all decided here. Group awards before lunch on day one, individual awards straight after.
Awards & recognitions
A year of work across the zone comes down to two hours on day one. Twenty-four titles are on the table and every Local Organization in Zone 26 can bid for them — the codes below are the official references you put on a submission. An LO that does not bid cannot win.
Winning on the Utsav stage starts in July. That is when the zone runs its Award Preparatory Seminar, where Local Organizations learn to document a year of work and bid for it — at zone level and national.
Group I · Individual awards 9
- I-1Outstanding JCI Member of Zone
- I-2Outstanding Local Organization President of Zone
- I-3Outstanding Local Organization Secretary of the Zone
- I-4Outstanding New JCI Member of Zone
- I-5Outstanding Lady JCI Member of Zone
- I-6Outstanding New Lady JCI Member of Zone
- I-7Outstanding Local Organization Officer of Zone
- I-8Outstanding Junior Jaycee of Zone
- I-9Outstanding JCI India Foundation JCI Member of Zone (JFP and Above)
Group II · Local Organization awards 15
- II-1Outstanding Local Organization of Zone
- II-2Outstanding Lady Local Organization of Zone
- II-3Outstanding New Local Organization of Zone
- II-4Outstanding Sustainable Solution Project of Zone
- II-5Outstanding Local Community Impact Program of Zone
- II-6Outstanding Local Growth & Development Program of Zone
- II-7Outstanding Local Individual Development (ID) Program of Zone
- II-8Outstanding Local Business & Entrepreneurship Program of Zone
- II-9Outstanding KAABIL Project of Zone
- II-10Outstanding Junior Jaycee Activities of Zone
- II-11Outstanding Local Organization Bulletin of Zone
- II-12Outstanding JCI Week of Zone
- II-13Outstanding Public Relations Program of Zone
- II-14Outstanding NP Flagship Program (Sustainable Sipping) of Zone
- II-15Outstanding Local Organization Branding & Uniform of the Zone
Utsav 1.0 — 27 July 2025
Fun Park, Nellore, 27 July 2025. JCI Nellore Angels hosted, with JCI Nellore Town, JCI Tirupati and JCI Chittoor Gold co-hosting — in JCI's Super Centenary Year, under JCI India's Rise UP 2025 theme. Eight towns came: Nellore, Tirupati, Sullurpet, Chittoor, Kadapa, Guntur, Vijayawada and Kurnool.
It opened with the inaugural and ran through Group Recognitions, the Star Lady LO Member awards and a business expo — then out of the hall, to the Green Life plantation drive, the Empower Her Scholarship and the Human Duties Day petition. It finished on a cultural evening and a live band.
JCI, JCI India and Zone 26
JCI
Young active citizens aged 18 to 40, in more than 100 countries. Founded in St. Louis in 1915 and federated internationally in Mexico City on 11 December 1944. The vision has not moved since: to be the foremost global network of young leaders.
JCI India
The second-largest member nation of JCI, and it began with a single chapter in Calcutta in 1949. Its Local Organizations sit in 29 zones under a National Governing Board, under one instruction: Be Better.
Zone 26
Central and southern Andhra Pradesh: the Godavari districts down through Krishna, Guntur, Prakasam and Nellore, out to Chittoor, Kadapa and Kurnool. 44 Local Organizations, four regions, one Zone Governing Board.
Andhra Pradesh hosts two JCI India zones: Zone 4 covers the north-coastal belt around Visakhapatnam; Zone 26 spans central and southern AP. LO and town counts per the Zone Governing Board’s 2026 Region Allocation.
The Local Organizations of Zone 26
Zone 26 is organised into four regions, each led by a Zone Vice President under Zone President JCI Sen K Pramodh Kumar. ZoneCon brings all four together in Nellore.
Allocation per the Zone Governing Board’s 2026 Region Allocation.
Region A
12 LOsZone Vice PresidentJFM Dr. Hari Prasad Gandikota
Region B
9 LOsZone Vice PresidentJc HGF K V Varun Kumar
Region C
10 LOsZone Vice PresidentJFD Lakkam Ravindra Reddy
Region D
13 LOsZone Vice PresidentJFD Rajesh Chekka
Two days that set the zone's year
Early bird ₹2,500 per person till 10th November, ₹3,000 after, covering both days, entry and food. Register before 18th November 2026.
Register for Utsav 2.0