[FriendsofAssamNE] New platform for NE scribes formed

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New platform for NE scribes formed
Guwahati: With an aim for initiating professional excellence, raisingvoices for 
social-financial security to scribes and finally developinga comprehensive 
platform for the working journalists of northeastIndia, a new organization 
named North East Union of WorkingJournalists (NEUWJ) has been mooted.A 
provisional committee was recently formed in a meeting held atGuwahati Press 
Club which decided to organize a convention in the cityto formalize the process 
of its formation and start functioning afterdue expansion in the meeting.The 
interim committee of NEUWJ was formed with senior journalistJoykanta Sarma as 
its President, Nava Thakuria as Working President,Rupam Barua & Pulin Kalita as 
Vice- Presidents, Manoj Agasti asGeneral Secretary,  Rubee Barua Das & Namita 
Bora  asAssistant-Secretaries, Nayanjyoti Bhuyan (Assam), Pranab 
Sarkar(Tripura), Linda Chhakchhuak (Mizoram), David Laitphlang 
(Meghalaya),Sobhapati Samom (Manipur), Okenjeet Sandham (Nagaland), Kenter 
JoyaRiba (Arunachal Pradesh), Bijoy Gurung (Sikkim)  as its Secretaries.