Good governance must involve passion to uplift the people, ensure accountability, transparency, equality and responsiveness as well as effective and efficient management, said Editor in Chief of The Pioneer Dr Chandan Mitra.
Dr Mitra was speaking at a training and orientation programme, organised by the Directorate of information & Publicity (GNCTD) on topic 'Role of media in Good governance and challenges'.
He further stated that the role of the media and the Government are complimentary to each other. "Media has important role in ensuring all of these criteria are met from time to time. Good governance essentially means how public institutions conduct public affairs and manage public resources," he said.
Speaking on the occasion, Editor of ANI Ajay Kaul underlined the increasing role social media and the changing dynamics of media in reference to fake news. As it has become a major challenge for media to a check on such fake news comprise morphed videos, photos, audio clips and text massages.
Editor of Outlook Ruben Banerjee said journalists should resist the market pressure by maintaining their neutral stands during the reporting/publishing the news and its arrived a huge challenges.
Sanjay Basak, Bureau Chief of Asian Age also expressed his views on the subject and said that the media should work as watchdog to ensure the better governance. On this occasion the Secretary (Public Relation) along with senior officers of directorate greeted and welcomed the eminent and distinguished participants and Delhi Press Accreditation Committee members participating in the programme.
Dr Jayadev Sarangi, Secretary (Public Relation), welcomed the participants and urged the media professionals /managers to communicate with the news on the policy initiatives of the Government in a fair and objective manner.
Sarangi said, "It was also emphasised that unbiased reporting will ensure credibility of the media in minds of the people.”
He also urged the media colleagues to evolve performance indicators to judge the ethics of any Government programe or policy. The media houses should act in a responsible way for propagating the information to the citizens about various welfare initiatives of the Government, he added.
In the interaction session, Nalin Chauhan, Deputy Director Kaanchan Aazad, Senior Information Officer Dr Pankaj Shrivastva, and other participants also expressed their views on responsibility and contribution of the media and its reputation of being fourth pillar of democracy. Officers of the Directorate Chandan Kumar, Amit Kumar, Manish Kumar, Urmila Beniwal and Govind were also present on the occasion.
While giving vote of thanks, the Special Director (I&P) Sandeep Mishra expressed the views on rationality of the media, lies in helping the Government to disseminate the government information for the welfare of the citizens at large.