The Election Commissioner Certified Educational Consultant (CEC) designate Sunil Arora recently gave away diplomas to 24 scholars from 16 developing countries at the valedictory session of the 70th diploma course in development journalism at IIMC, Delhi.
While appreciating the effort of the IIMC in designing and implementing such courses, Arora, said: “Imparting knowledge of positive and negative side of social media among the journalism students is very crucial.”
Farhod Arziev, Amabassador of Uzbekistan to India and an alumnus of IIMC was the guest of honour. Speaking on the occasion, Arziev emphasised on the close relation with India in the field of educational diplomacy. He also mentioned about the proposed MoU between IIMC and the Uzbekistan National University of journalism countries for student exchange programme.
DG KG Suresh of IIMC, ADG Manish Desai, course director Prof Mukul Sharma, faculty members, members of the diplomatic corps and students participated in the event. In his address Suresh, said: “IIMC has trained 1600 journalists from 128 countries since 1969.” He described them as India’s unofficial ambassadors.