‘Journalism for Peace’ award to NDTV’s Sushil Mohapatra

Sushil Mohapatra of NDTV will be honored with the ‘Journalism for Peace’ award. Sushil Mohapatra has been selected for this award by the MIT World Peace University, School of Media and Communication, Pune. The award will be presented in Pune on November 10. The ‘Journalism for Peace’ award is being given for the first time in India. This award is being given for Sushil Mohapatra’s ground report on mental patients ‘Mujhe Ghar Jaana Hai’. No one is coming to pick up the house. In this story, Mohapatra had shown how the housemates separate mental patients, but an organization like the ashram treats these patients free of cost. The story of the struggle of mental patients was shown in this story.

After Sushil Mohapatra’s ground report, many families had reached the ashram to take the cured patients. Let us tell you, this year a total of three journalists are getting this honor. Mohapatra is receiving this honor in the Broadcasting category, while Ravleen Kaur of Down to Earth in the Print category and Gaon Connection Keenetu Singh in the Digital category. Many big journalists and academicians of the media world have chosen these three journalists for this award. The world’s biggest journalists will participate in this three-day seminar in Pune. MIT World University as well as Mumbai Press Club, The RK Laxman Museum, Foreign Correspondents Club of South Asia (New Delhi) and The Pune Union of Working Journalists are the partners of this seminar. Sushil Mohapatra has been honored twice before with the famous Ramnath Goenka Award and once with the Red Ink Award. He is associated with NDTV for the last 14 years.