Rupang celebrate its silver jubilee

Shillong, Nov 3: Meghalaya minister Prestone Tynsong said that newspapers deserve government advertisement support as it is the medium through which information is relayed to the people. He also said that the people come to know about government’s activities through the newspapers.

Tynsong assured newspapers’ publishers and editors of putting a word to the government while inaugurating the silver jubilee celebration of Rupang, a Khasi daily Saturday. He said “I will put up with the government to give newspapers advertisement support”.

Rupang was started in 1988 by RM Shabong as a weekly news papers and it was converted into a daily in 1992. Talking about the difficulties editor and publisher of the news paper Shabong said, “We started the papers with an electrical type writer and use to print it in Guwahati.” – By Our Reporter