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An Appeal to Media-men
By Indra
Feb. 15, 2008 |
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I find most
of you operate from Patna and manufacture some
news. Some headlines are not only useless but
harmful too, as it provides unnecessary
publicity to some persons and incidents that
must just get ignored. How does a headline such
as ‘Bihar’s love guru has a message for
Thackeray’, serve any purpose? And is it true
that ’Nalanda may turn Singur for Nitish’? Is
the story about the row over Mauritius PM’s
caste true?
I wish the media-men provided some useful
investigative reporting on the projects that can
change the face of Bihar. People at large depend
on them for knowing the real story. Why can’t
the same media-men move out from Patna and go
inside rural Bihar? We keep on hearing about the
unique thrust of Nitish’s government on building
of rural road and providing electrification.
Should the media-men tell the people the real
status? Is there not a single success story from
the people of Bihar that can tell about the
innovation and entrepreneurship of the people of
Bihar with the change in administration? If at
all the situation in Nalanda is bad, Can’t the
reporter move in the villages and provide the
real story about the compensation that the
farmers are getting or the corruption among the
officers that are expected to administer the
compensation?
People expect media to keep a watch on lofty
programmes and projects launched by any
government and report about its execution. We
hear from media at least about two distinct
types of projects: the first related to a large
number of educational institute of excellence
such as IIT, and IIM being set up in Bihar for
the first time, and the second is about a large
number of proposals to set up industrial units
as available on the website of Bihar State
Government. Should not the media-men report
about the real progress of those educational
institutions or industrial units that have got
sanctions about two years ago? Are the people
offering the proposals for setting up the
industrial units and seeking the sanctions
genuine ones?
There is another area where the media can
provide assistance to the authority. It can
report on all the existing institutions and
industrial units: Why don’t the existing ones
perform as the best ones in its categories in
the other states of the country? Bihar needs
help of media. Negative reporting may provide
some quick applause from some, but will hardly
help the process of the rebuilding of Bihar.
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इंदरा जी का विचार पढ़कर बिहार के नीति निर्धारकों की नींद खुलनी चाहिए। बिहार के लोग न केवल रोजी रोटी के लिए बल्कि अच्छी शिक्षा के लिए भी बिहार को छोड़ रहें हैं। बिहार के नेता केन्द्र में शिक्षा मंत्री के पद पर रहते हुए भी एक अच्छा प्रबंध संस्थान नहीं खुलवा सकें । बिहार की स्वयं सेवी संस्थाएँ मेधावी छात्रों की खोज कर आई आई टी जैसे संस्थानों में भेज रहें हैं।
- Arjun Mahto - Mar. 1, 2008 |
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