Dimapur, July 4 (MExN): With an aim to cater various needs of the working journalists of Northeast India, a forum was formed Tuesday, June 30 in Guwahati. The member-based organization titled Journalists Forum of Northeast India has been designed to work for the enrichment of its members from print, electronic & web media, and also for the overall growth of journalism in the trouble torn region.
The forum will emphasize on wider interaction among the journalists and also with the civil society and advocacy groups. More over, the forum has mandates to work for protecting the legal and constitutional rights of the journalist-members through reasonable and justified means. Meeting in the sideline of ICRC media workshop for the NE journalists in Guwahati on June 30, the participants from all States of the region (including from Bhutan) consented for the regional media-persons forum.
The meeting unanimously formed a convening committee of Journalists Forum of Northeast India with Nava Thakuria (Guwahati) as its convener. other members of the forum are Irengbam Arun (Manipur), Dilip Sharma (Nagaland), Bijoy Gurung (Sikkim), Syed Sajjad Ali (Tripura), Pinna Kitnal Muklom (Arunachal Pradesh), David Laitphlang (Meghalaya), H.Vanlalnghaka (Mizoram) and Shankar Dey, Ranen Kumar Goswami, Sailen Barua (Assam).
