Community media plays a crucial role in preventing and eradicating corruption and promoting local governance and voice of voiceless, experts opined at the second Anniversary celebrations of Namaskar, the first community newspaper of the country, held here on Saturday.
Attending the event as chief guest, Jual Oram said “Community communication through community media can only act as a grassroots-level effective communication agent. There are many sources for infotainment; however, community media has proved to be the media of the masses now-a day”.
The Minister released a signature tune of special community radio episode Ama Panchayat Katha, which is sponsored by the Ministry of Panchayatiraj for awareness building among local community on Panchatiraj system through Radio Namaskar, said community media expert NA Shah Ansari. He also informed that measure would be taken soon to make Konark a free Wi-Fi town and to establish a digital library at Konark. Besides, all the active community journalists and Namaskar team members were felicitated.