One-day media workshop held
Source: The Sangai Express / DIPR

Imphal, November 13 2025: A one-day media workshop 'VARTALAP' on art & culture, youth affairs & sports, and cyber security awareness was held today at Hotel Imphal under the aegis of Press Information Bureau (PIB), Regional Office, Imphal.

The media workshop held under the theme "Capacity Building of Media Persons Working in the State of Manipur" was divided into three technical sessions.

During the first technical session, Arts & Culture Director Dharmadas Sharma spoke on arts and culture.

Youth Affairs & Sports Director Dr Mayengbam Veto presented a paper on youth affairs and sports during the second technical session while Scientist-E of NIELIT Imphal Dr Angom Buboo Singh spoke on cyber security awareness during the third technical session.

The inaugural session was attended by DIPR Director Ngangom Uttam as the chief guest, PIB Imphal Director Dr Engam Pame as the president and AMWJU president Asem Bhakta and EGM Secretary General Yumnam Rupachandra as special invitees.

Speaking at the inaugural session, Ngangom Uttam the topics of the workshop were highly relevant and significant to the people of Manipur and India.

These days people are talking a lot about National integrity and the integrity of Manipur.

The connotations of integrity should not be restricted to geographical integrity or retention of the State's political map.

When there is emotional integrity, no one will challenge the geographical integrity, he said.

The challenges to the geographical integrity seen today are because of the lack of emotional integrity, Uttam said.

He said that arts and culture have big roles in building and strengthening emotional relationship.

With everything now gone online, cyber security is a very important subject.

Everyone must be wary of cyber security at personal level, State level and National level, he said.

The impacts given by social media on the press is largely a result of the race for instant dissemination of news/information.

The number of people reading newspapers has gone down substantially these days.

With mobile phones becoming indispensable these days, everyone thinks that he/she is a reporter and what they see and comes to their mind are shared on social media without thinking about the negative impacts on the public, Uttam said.

Press media houses have also opened social media pages and they are sharing breaking news instantaneously but the details of these reports are published in newspapers.

Details of any news or reports are not available on social media pages.

It is essential to create awareness among the masses on the differences of news/reports received from social media and newspapers, he said.

It is essential to let the public know the differences between news or reports shared on social media and the ones published in newspapers by following a number of formalities and adhering to the protocol, the DIPR Director added.

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