Like earlier years, the National Journalists’ Welfare Board (NJWB) has decided to provide pension to 21 senior journalists and health insurance cover to all accredited journalists and their family members on the National Press Day to be held at Jayadev Bhavan here on November 16.
Besides, ‘Prajatantra’ editor and MP Bhartruhari Mahtab would be honoured with the “Utkal Sambadika Ratna” award and other seven newspaper editors will be felicitated with the ‘Rashtriya Sambadika Gourab” samman.
Besides, journalist students Nainsingh Agrawal of Utkal University and Prachi Prava Mohapatra of the University of Culture will be felicitated with ‘Rabi Narayan Mohanty Samman’ and the Gopal Mishra Smaraki Samma’ respectively.
The Press Day would be presided over by NJWB chief and Lok Sevak Mandal chairman Dipak Malavya would preside over the meeting. Orissa High Court Justice Bishwanath Rath, Chit Fund probe Commisioner Justice Manmohan Dash, DGP Dr RP Sharma and Development Commissioner R Balkrishnan will grace as guests. A cultural programme will be presented by noted lyricist Basudeb Rath and his team.
A seminar on ‘Digital challenges to morality of journalism’ will be held on the occasion, informed NJWB president Pradosh Patnaik, vice-president Pradyumna Mohanty and general secretary Sanat Mishra in a statement.