“Sincerity without courage leads a journalist towards wrong destination”, MLA Dr Chettri Himalayan People’s Channel celebrates its 2nd Foundation Anni

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, Jilas Ghataraj, Prajjwal Chettri and Amir Basnett were
honoured. The children from the Natya Nrityam Sansthan also presented
colourful dance performances.

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