Press Club releases guidelines for Rural Reporting Award

GANGTOK, 06 April: The Press Club of Sikkim officially unveiled guidelines for the Gramin Patrakarita Puraskar [Rural Reporting Award] sponsored by the Raj Bhawan and instituted by the Press Club during a meeting of the awards committee held on Saturday. Governor Balmiki Prasad Singh has already released the cash component for the said award to the Press Club, it is informed.
A PCS press release informs that the meeting decided that the award be conferred every year on the occasion of the National Press Day, 16 November. A seven-member selection committee has also been constituted comprising of senior journalists Santosh Nirash, Ashok Chatterjee, Bijay Bantawa, Kishor Moktan and Amalendu Kundu along with president, Bhim Rawat and general secretary, Joseph Lepcha of the Press Club.
Only journalists with a minimum of 5 years experience in Sikkim will be considered for the award. Reports from rural Sikkim, starting from Jan 2012 to September will be considered for this year’s award. The committee had decided that priority be given to the reports on developmental works, tourism, education, health, infrastructures, economy, agriculture, culture and traditions of rural areas. Both print and electronic media journalists can send in entries.
The meeting also decided that all journalists working in Sikkim, including freelance journalists, will be eligible for the award, but part-time journalists will not be considered.
The Press Club of Sikkim which celebrates its 10th year this year, also released its decadal logo at the meeting.