MUKESH SHARMA
KALIMPONG, June 03:
Himalayan People’s Channel, a local news channel started by the Himalayan Swarojgar & Berojgar Forum today celebrated its 2nd Foundation Anniversary. Kalimpong MLA, Dr Harka Bahadur Chettri graced the occasion as the Chief Guest.
During his brief address, MLA Dr Chettri advising the journalists to work sincerely said that if a journalist is motivated and sincere towards his work then lakhs of people will stand for his/ her support if he / she are being threatened. “Sincerity without courage leads a journalist towards wrong destination”, he stated. News does not happen all of a sudden, instead they are made, he asserted. Saying that journalism is a noble profession the MLA added that journalists are the entities who clean the society of all negative elements.
During the programme, journalist Pradeep Lohagun kept forward his views on the problems faced in visual/ electronic media whereas journalist cum poet Manoj Bogati spoke on the print media. They whined that neither the people are concerned about how the regional newspapers and channels are run nor the Administration asks about it. In one hand, the Administration lets the media houses publish the Government advertisements, whereas in the other if any mistakes occur in the publishing, then the media houses are questioned whether they bear license and proper registration. Likewise they underlined that there are 2 main reasons which leads others to interfere in the field of journalism, firstly the journalists not doing their work with full dedication and secondly, the journalists not being given proper status/ identity by their media houses along with low payment for their hard work. Even the national level journalists can be seen being much bias nowadays, they said.
Also during the programme few of the youth journalists namely, DK Waiba, Jilbut Ghataraj, Prajjwal Chettri and Amir Basnett were honoured. The children from the Natya Nrityam Sansthan also presented colourful dance performances.
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