Awards for carrying out the best social work in the villages adopted by Kushabhau Thakre University of Journalism and Mass Communication (KTUJM) were declared on Saturday. The Department of Journalism and Mass Communication won the Vice-Chancellor’s running shield for carrying out the best social work in Datrenga village.
Addressing the students on the occasion, BKS Ray, IAS, said this is a good initiative by the university. The students have focused on issues like alcoholism, good governance, public distribution system and literacy. He stressed that the people should be made aware of the bad effects of alcoholism.
Notably, every year each department of the journalism university adopts one village as part of social responsibility of KTUJM and students here work for the betterment of those villages. At the end of every year the department carrying out the best work is awarded with a trophy. The works carried out in the villages were judged by Ray, senior journalist Diwakar Muktibodh, freelance writer Asha Shukla and coordinator of PACS Suneeta Munda.
The first presentation of the day was from the Department of Management on village Kandul. The department of mass communication presented report on Datrenga. The department of journalism shows its presentation in third position on village Ghughua. The electronic media department presented its report on village Khudmuda. Advertising and public relation department showed their report on village Doma. At the end of the presentation, the social work department of the university presented its paper on social issues of Kathadiha.
Senior journalist Diwakar Muktibodh in his address said this is a unique characteristic of this university to adopt one village and work for the village on various social challenges. The event was marked by the presence of eminent persons, students and residents of the villages where the development works were carried out.