More focus on women issues stressed

Our Correspondent
Kohima | November 16

The need to intensify the coverage on women issues in the state has been strongly felt during the observance of National Press Day here under the theme ‘Women & Media’ jointly organised by the Kohima Press Club (KPC) and Directorate of Information & Public Relations.

Sentiyanger Imchen, Commissioner and Secretary, IPR and Horticulture, in his address hoped that the press fraternity would play an important role in highlighting women issues and also other issues of public importance with seriousness. He also requested media persons to maintain the highest standard of reporting and focus on being “fair and without bias.”

He maintained that media occupied a very important space in society, adding that its power has increased tremendously. Also stating that the role of media is to provide information, entertainment and education, Imchen further requested media persons to give more attention towards educating public opinion.

The Commissioner and Secretary also challenged media persons to act as a catalyst for transformation of society towards progress and overall development. Appreciating Nagaland Page for rendering a special feature on women every Friday, Rosemary Dzuvichu, senior lecturer at the department of English, Nagaland University, requested other local media houses to adopt similar approach by carrying out at least one feature article on women issues in a week. She was confident that such move would bring great change and bear a “great contribution” from media houses.

She also requested the DIPR to give adequate coverage on the government’s programmes and schemes relating to women so that women in rural areas would be able to access necessary information and gain maximum benefit from there. Rosemary also asked media persons to lay special emphasis on health and safety sector of women, besides other issues like child marriage, empowerment of women, increasing rate of molestation of children, rising rate of HIV/AIDS, domestic violence, women in decision making, etc.

Further stressing on the need to provide basic information on trainings, loans and other business ventures, Rosemary added that such coverage would go a long way in terms of economic empowerment of women. Earlier, the function was chaired by KPC general secretary, Narain B Sagar, while Menguseu Suokhrie presented a special song. The programme concluded with vote of thanks by Limawati, Deputy Director of IPR. Meanwhile, the KPC has expressed gratitude to Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio for donating Rs.50,000 towards the KPC fund.



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