DC Budgam S F Hamid holds interaction with media persons of district

Budgam : The Deputy Commissioner (DC) Budgam, S F Hamid today held an interactive session with media persons working from District Budgam at Conference Hall, here.

As many as 28 media persons representing various reputed national and local media organizations including News 18 Network, Rising Kashmir, Doordarshan News, All India Radio Srinagar, Gulistan News, KNS, Kashmir Despatch, Kashmir Story and other media outlets attended the meeting.

At the outset, DC said that the media is the important and fourth pillar of Democracy, helping District Administration to perform more accurately and efficiently. He said the media works as an interface between government and public.

The DC urged the media fraternity to follow journalism ethics in letter and spirit while performing in the field and ensure quality journalism is displayed by each one of them. He assured media persons full support from District Administration in highlighting the genuine public issues for their prompt redressal.

On the occasion, media persons raised a number of issues pertaining to the media fraternity including operation of unregistered news portals, accommodation and other issues.