DIPR
Imphal, July 3: The All Manipur Working Working Journalist Union organized felicitatation programme of Shri Meghachandra Kongbam on his appointment as the Director of IPR today at Manipur Press Club.
The members of AMWJU and Correspondents of National Papers thank the Director for taking initiatives for the welfare of media persons and for daily dissemination of news to media regarding Departmental’s welfare schemes for the masses and achievements of the Government and also bridging the gap between DIPR and media. The AMWJU further praised the Director for maximum output of work with a minimum staff.
Shri Meghachandra Kongbam thanked the organizers of the programme and said that since the beginning of his career he has a long association of the Union even though he is not a member and further said that democracy cannot be full-fledged without media since media is the fourth pillar of democracy. Manipur being a complex state ,inhabited by different communities with their own dialect, it is the role/ job of DIPR to make awareness of the of the Government schemes and news to people of interior areas so that they can say they are all manipuris.
The programme was attended by Shri N.Tombiraj Singh as Chief Guest and Shri W.Shamjai as President and staff of DIPR and most of media fraternity also attended the programme.