Media sensitized on MGNREA
Source: Hueiyen News Service
Imphal, June 11 2015 :
An Orientation programme cum workshop for working journalists was organized at Manipur Press Club on Thursday.
Organised jointly by the State Institute of Rural Development Manipur and All Manipur Working Journalists' Union (AMWJU), the programme intended to sensitize the scribes on MGNREGA implemented in the State.
Delivering the keynote speech, AMWJU president Wangkhemcha Shamjai talked about the immense role to be played by the media in the implementation of MGNREGA.
He said the programme was being organized in view of the growing need of media's role in the MGNREA implementation.
Shamjai said MGNREA has been introduced by the Government of India to reduce problem of unemployment in the rural areas of the country populated mostly by the poor.
He recalled that the first district in Manipur where the Act was introduced is Tamenglong district which was among 200 selected districts in the country.