The NDA Government’s nine years in power at the Centre has brought about massive economic development in the country and the nation has emerged the fifth largest economy in the world surpassing the United Kingdom. The nation is poised to see further development across all sectors because of the new initiatives taken during this period, said senior journalist Akshaya Kumar Sahoo here at a ‘Vartalap’ workshop organised by the Press Information Bureau (PIB) of the Government of India.
Professor Surya Narayan Mishra; senior journalist Pradymna Satpathy and Prabhat Kumar Panigrahi also joined the workshop as experts.
Sahoo, while listing out various administrative and economic reform measures rolled out by Prime Minister Narendra Modi ever since 2014, said India has already become a 3.75-trillion-dollar economy and the day is not far away when the country would become a 5-trillion-dollar economy.
Prof Mishra spoke on the contribution of Khordha in the Indian freedom struggle. He mentioned about the roles of Jayee Rajguru and many others who led the Paika Bidroh which, he said, was justifiably called the First War of Independence.
Journalist and eloquent orator Pradymna Satpathy mesmerised the audience with his usual style of presenting facts on the strong resistance put up by the Khordha Paikas the British rulers. Throwing lights on Seva, Sushan and Garib Kalyan, he said the nine years of NDA rule is actually a period of service to the people, not rule of administrators to subjects.
Prabhat Panigrahi spoke on the role of media in development of the country. He stressed on truthful and objective reporting of facts to uphold the sanctity of the media.
Presided over by Dr Girish Chandra Dash, Joint Director (M&C), CBC and Regional Officer, CBFC, Government of India, the workshop was curated by PK Choudhury, M &CO, PIB. Majoj Kumar Jali, IIS, Deputy Director (M&C), PIB, also joined the workshop. Khurda Information and Public Relations Officer Jyotsnarani Acharya gave a vote of thanks. Many journalists of Khurda participated in the workshop.