Media's active role emphasized on government-public wellbeing
Source: IT News
Guwahati, December 15 2018:
As the Union government has
continued implementing
various welfare schemes for
the benefit of common
Indians, the downtrodden
section in the society should
access to those schemes and
here the
media can play a vital role,
said
Ansumwi Khunguri Boro,
executive member of
Bodoland
Territorial Council
while addressing a media
interactive session at Baksa
locality of western
Assam.
"We, the government and the
media alike, should ensure that
people are aware of the
various Government
programmes and schemes so
that they can avail benefits of
those schemes.
There are a
huge range of schemes being implemented by the
government nowadays whose
main objective is to make the
citizens' lives better," added
Mr Boro.
Organized by the Press
Information Bureau's
Guwahati office in
collaboration with the Baksa
district administration on 14
December 2018 at Musalpur
town, the media interactive
workshop titled 'Vartalap' was
also addressed by the host
district magistrate Sanjeeb
Kumar Gogoi.
"Baksa is now considered as
an aspirational district and
hence we have to put extra
efforts in all developmental
spheres so that the residents
can get benefits from various
government schemes.
The
journalists should play a
proactive role in making the
public aware of these welfare schemes," said Gogoi.
He also informed that the
district has recently received
appreciations for its excellent
coverage of government
schemes among the public.
Mentioning about the Ujjala
scheme, Gogoi stated that 90%
of Baksa households were
covered, where gas
connection initiative covered
100% homes in the district.
"In the field of animal
husbandry and agriculture
too, Baksa has achieved significant success.
I
appreciate the initiative of
media
persons here that because of
them we could succeed
disseminating related
information about these
policies affectively," added
the deputy commissioner.
KS Dhatwalia, director general
for NE Zone in the Union
information & broadcasting
ministry , while addressing the
participating journalists of
around 50 from different parts of the district, pointed out that
Vartalap was an attempt to
sensitize the media about
disseminating proper
information to the common
people.
He expected a positive
and constructive media across
the nation.
Journalist Nava Thakuria also
emphasized on a responsible
and credible media for the
nation, where the scribes have
to play the driver's role in the
changing faces of journalism
across the globe.
He stated that
the internet connectivity has
made reporting easier
, but also
posed a serious threat to the
professional journalists.
"The role of a journalist has
simply grown as we are
increasing our family members
with the increasing number of
internet users in India.
Now the
media is held accountable for
every word we write or speak.
So it becomes extremely
important to present facts
without any bias," said Thakuria
adding that the tendency of
some journalists to denounce
India as a nation is condemnable,
even though they can criticize
the regime in New Delhi.
Jolly Das Brahma, additional
principal secretary of Baksa,
Dr
Abhijit Basu, joint director
in DPMU, Kailash Deka,
district agriculture of
ficer, BM Roy, PHE executive engineer , Lalit Basumatary & Bhupen
Das from district elementary
education department also
addressed the gathering and
spoke on various government
schemes in different areas.
Gopajit Das from the PIB
Guwahati,
Anshumi Mahilary & Hemchandra Pathak from
the government public relation department also attended the program.
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