The National Journalist Welfare Board (NJWB)will provide pension to 17 senior journalists and health insurance coverage to accredited journalists and their family members on the occasion of National Press Day to be held at Jaydev Bhavan here on November 16.
The Press Day would be orgnised by the NJWB in collaboration with Door Darshan, Aakashvani, Press Information Bureau (PIB), Directorate of Field Publicity (DFB) and Academy of Management and Information Technology (AMIT).
Editor Tathagata Satpathy would be conferred with Utkal Sambadik Ratna award while editor Sagar Aluha, editor Ajay Shukla, PN News channel MD Vinoy Roy, UT Mirror ED Jaya Singh, senior journalist HK Sethi and Dada Saheb Phalke Foundation’s film magazine AF Khopekar would be felicitated with Rashtriya Sambadik Gourav awards.
Rabi Narayan Mohanty Smaraki Samman, Gopal Mishra Smaraki Samman, and Barendra Krushna Dhal Smaraki Samman would be given away to meritorious students of different media institutes.
A debate on ‘Collection of news from controversial areas is a challenge for the media’ would be held on the occasion.
The day would conclude with cultural programmes to be organised by the Doordarshan, Bhubaneswar and the State Culture Department.
Board president Pradosh Patnaik, vice-president Pradyumna Kumar Mohanty and general Secretary Sanat Mishra informed this in a statement.