SHILLONG, OCT 4: Meghalaya Electronic Media Association (MEMA) and Meghalaya Editors & Publishers Association on Tuesday met chief minister Mukul Sangma and handed memorandums of their respective associations relating to issues pertaining to the welfare of journalists and media houses.
The MEMA delegation was led by its president Kyrmenlang Uriah.
MEPA urged Sangma for the implementation of a Risk Insurance Schemes by the state government and extend all the welfare schemes to all the working video and print journalists and not to limited those schemes to the accredited journalists.
MEPA handed over a memorandum to the Sangma on issues of unpaid advertisement bills pending with various departments and enhancement of advertisement tariff.
MEMA to stressed on the need to implement Risk Insurance Schemes for Journalists and Uriah said the scheme is important so that their families do not suffer economically if “something wrong” happened to them.
He also reminded the chief minister on the attacks on journalists and cameramen belonging to different TV Channels in 2005, 2014 and 2015 and the incident where a cameraman died in an accident at Paikan, Assam last year.
Uriah also informed the chief minister on the delay in taking legal action against those persons who were responsible for crime against the journalists and urged him for compensation to the journalists.
Uriah also said MEMA supports MEPA demands to enhance the corpus of Journalist Welfare Fund for journalist and that it should not be a onetime assistance, to implement the Health Insurance Scheme for Journalists and also the pension scheme for the journalists.
Uriah urged Sangma to speed up framing of the new advertisement policy and also to create a single window agency in the Directorate of Information and Public Relation for clearance of advertisement bills and to set up media centers with internet facilities in all the district headquarters for the benefits of the journalists serving in such districts.
Sangma assured the delegation that he firmly believed that the media should be protected and also provided with security schemes and informed that a committee will be constituted soon by the state government through the DIPR to work out the Journalists Welfare Scheme.
Regarding the attacks on journalist, Sangma asked MEMA to provide him with all the details as it is a legal matter.-By Our Reporter
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