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| Tribune hits Jammu | | J&K to have information policy: CM | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Dec 10: Chief Minister Mr. Ghulam Nabi Azad Monday said that government would frame a new information policy to foster and further strengthen government-media relations.
Addressing a function after launching Jammu edition of The Tribune at General Zorawar Singh Auditorium at Jammu University here, Mr. Azad lauded print and electronic media for extending unstinted support to the government in bringing normalcy and peace in the state.
Chief Minister said "English newspapers have significant readership in our state alongwith Urdu and Hindi papers and The Tribune's Jammu edition will be a welcome addition". He said that while reporting events it was the duty of print and electronic media to give due coverage to the positive events of development and welfare. "Let us together create conditions to harness the potential of Jammu and Kashmir in tourism, power, horticulture, handicrafts and other sectors of economy", he said and added that J&K had passed through difficult times due to prolonged militancy and could not keep pace with other states. "It is a matter of great satisfaction that there is a change for the better now and concrete efforts have been made to create massive social service infrastructure like roads, bridges, hospitals, educational institutions, power and PHE projects on fast track".
Referring to the evolution of journalism in India, Chief Minister referred to the contribution of Mahatma Gandhi, G. K. Gokhale, Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru and Moulana Abul Kalam Azad, saying that they were great mass communicators. He said Gandhiji edited various journals including 'Indian Opinion', 'Young India' and 'Harijan' from 1902 to 1948, whileas G. K. Gokhale put his duty as journalist above his family and Moulana Azad became the editor of Al-Hilal when he was just 13 years.
He quoted Gandhiji's views about journalism where-under he says "my newspapers became for me a training ground in self-restraint and a means for studying human nature in all its shades and variation. Without the newspapers a movement like satyagraha could not have been possible". Mr. Azad said "we have to follow the spirit of Gandhiji's journalism today in India, the largest democracy in the world belonging to people of different faiths, cultures and languages and living in peace and harmony. In a vibrant democracy, the freedom of press is a pre-requisite which is there in our country and our constitution enshrines freedom of speech and expression as a fundamental right".
Chief Minister referred to the history of The Tribune and said that the paper has completed 126 years of its publication having distinction of being the first English newspaper owned by an Indian, adding that illustrious S. Dayal Singh Majithia started the paper on February 2, 1881 and it remained closely associated with the freedom struggle of the country articulating aspirations of common Indian masses. He said The Tribune also contributed continuously and significantly in the progress of nation in the post-independence era as well. The launch of Jammu edition of The Tribune is indeed a major step, he added. |
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