ONE YEAR PERFORMANCE OF THE GOVERNING COUNCIL, THE SPEAKERS PRAISED

EXPRESSED CONCERN OVER THE GROWING CHALLENGES FOR JOURNALISTS IN THE STATE

TEAM OF CEV JOURNALISTS ALSO PARTICIPATED IN THIS MEGA EVENT

Jalandhar, December 23 (CTN PRESS) – Today, the annual meeting of the Punjab Press Club was held at the Desh Bhagat Memorial Hall. First of all, 62 journalists were killed in the Israel-Hamas war and 11 journalists were killed in the Russia-Ukraine war, and in addition, journalists who were members of the Punjab Press Club and other prominent journalists of Punjab, who have passed away this year, was paid tribute by keeping a two minute silence.

Among these departed journalists and writers. Amritpal Singh (Yug Marg Phillaur), Satpal Setia (DM News), Ravi Gill (Editor Joint Punjab TV), Jitinder Mohan Vig (Janta Sansar), Senior Journalist N. S. Parwana and Professor Pyara Singh Bhogal etc. are included.

After this, Punjab Press Club President Satnam Singh Manak presented a report on the activities of the Punjab Press Club in 2023 and the work to be done by the Governing Council of the Press Club in the future, which was unanimously accepted by the regular members present in the meeting. accepted.

The General Meeting of the Press Club was held under the collective chairmanship of the office bearers of the Governing Council, President Satnam Singh Manak, Senior Vice President Rajesh Thapa, General Secretary Manoj Tripathi, Treasurer Shiv Kumar Sharma, Vice President Mandeep Sharma, Secretary Meher Malik and Joint Secretary Rakesh Suri.

The former president of the press club Dr. Addresses were given by Lakhwinder Singh Johal, Professor Kamlesh Singh Duggal, Kuldeep Singh Bedi, Pal Singh Noli, Surinder Singh Sunnar, Ashok Anuj, Gurpreet Sandhu, Sukrant Safari, Tinku Pandit, Mahaveer Seth, Pushpinder Kaur, Bittu Ubrai and Rajesh Sharma.

The speakers praised the performance of the Governing Council of Punjab Press Club in 2023 and also the difficulties faced in getting yellow cards for the members of the Punjab Press Club, the challenges faced by the journalists in the state, the need to insure the journalists, etc. Raised issues related to Apart from this, he criticized the Punjab government’s cancellation of accreditation of journalists above 58 years of age and demanded the government restore the accreditation of journalists who are still working for newspapers television channels, or web channels Some journalists also raised the issue of getting a plot from the government to build a colony for journalists in Jalandhar.

Appealed to the governing council of the Press Club to fulfill its duties to resolve these issues. Meher Malik performed the responsibility of stage secretary in this general meeting.

The team of CEV journalists & representatives of the editorial-governing board including Chairman R & D Er. Sundeep Bansal & Director Ranjan Gupta also participated in this mega event.