Uttarakhand: Additional Information Director reached Pauri on a one-day visit, said- Media plays an important role in reaching public welfare schemes to the public

Ashish Kumar Tripathi, Additional Director, Information and Public Relations Department, Uttarakhand, who arrived on a one-day visit to the district, inspected the District Information Office, Pauri Garhwal today. He took information about the work from the office desk assistants, inspected the files and gave necessary guidelines. In the sequence of the guidelines of Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami, the Additional Director inspected the District Information Office, Pauri and observed the dispatch register, postal register, newspaper inspection register, among others. He said that ensure that daily newspapers are recorded in the news inspection register every day. He expressed satisfaction when all the registers were found well organized in the office. In view of the dilapidated condition of the Information Office building, he directed to look for a new building and shift the office there. The Additional Director also interacted with the media during the visit to the district. During this, he was welcomed by the journalists with a bouquet on his visit to the district. During the conversation with the media, he said that the media has an important role in reaching the various public welfare schemes run by the government to the public. Many important decisions have been taken by the Uttarakhand government in the direction of journalist welfare.

He said that recently the Chief Minister has increased the Journalist Welfare Fund from 5 crores to 10 crores. He said that in case of sudden death of a journalist, instructions have been given by the Chief Minister to make the process of assistance given to his dependents more smooth and fast. He also said that work is going on on the new Journalist Recognition Rules, in which the Chief Minister has also given instructions to give recognition up to the tehsil level. With the aim of increasing communication between the Information Department and district level journalists and quick resolution of the problems of journalists, the district nodal officers of the Information Department are visiting the areas. The Additional Director gave information about the various facilities given to the journalists and various schemes being run in the interest of journalists. During this, various problems and demands were raised by the press representatives.

Taking cognizance of the problems and demands, he assured the press representatives that the problems would be resolved soon. On this occasion, Information Officer in Charge Sunil Singh Tomar, Patron Pramod Bartwal, Junior Assistant Pushkar Singh Binjola, Senior Journalist Anil Bahuguna, Tribhuwan Uniyal, Ajay Rawat, Anil Bhatt, Jagmohan Dangi, Manohar Bisht, Kuldeep Bisht, Mukesh Arya, Mukesh Singh, Siddhant Uniyal, Mukesh Bachheti, Pradeep Negi, Deepak Bardhwal, Mahendra Singh, Manish Khugshaal, Double Singh, Vijay Bahuguna, Bhagwan Singh and others were present.