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CM announces scheme for journalists in distress
Created on :08/19/2007 07:21 PM (NORMAL )
Panaji,
Aug 19 (UNI) Goa Chief Minister Digambar Kamat today said his government is
contemplating to introduce a scheme to benefit journalists, particularly the
aged, in distress.
Speaking after inaugurating the Photo Journalists Association of Goa,
coinciding with the World Photography Day, here, Mr Kamat said he would also
examine a proposal to develop media faculty for training of the journalists
in various streams.
Lauding the role of the photojournalists who work against all odds, the
Chief Minister, however, decried what he termed ''negative photos'', which
depict the high profile personalities in ''bad light''.
''Shooting pictures of politicians asleep in an important meeting in the
air-conditioned environs and slip of former president Shankar Dayal Sharma
at a function send wrong signals to the people abroad.
There should be some limit to this kind of journalism,'' he observed.
He later felicitated retired and acting photographers, who had richly
contributed to journalism in Goa.
He also inaugurated a ''news photo exhibition'' on the precincts of the Kala
Academy.
Department of Information and Publicity director Menino Peres, the
association's president Nandesh Kambli and general secretary Rozario
Estibeiro, among others, spoke on the occasion.
