Odisha Taza News ( 25 july , sunday ) Bhubaneswar :- Journalist Development Council of India (JDCI) has been designed and destined to fight for the cause of journalists and to ensure their all round development, described the National Chairman of the Council and Chairman of World Odisha Society Senior journalist Kishore Dwibedi.
Participating as Chief Guest during the plantation programme launched by JDCI with the collaboration of Rotary Club, Royal at vani vihar campus in Bhubhaneshwar, Shri Dwibedi gave a Clarion call to all working journalists to join JDCI, which is above all unions and associations of the scribes.
Delivering welcome address the Vice President of OUWJ Rajani Kant Samantray informed that the main aim and objective of JDCI is to finalise the logo and prefix of journalists and convene the first ever Indian journalists Congress in Odisha.
Addressing the gathering through teleconference, President of Orissa Branch of JDCI Gopal Krushna Mohapatra lauded the noble role and lofty goal of the JDCI. Delivering his speech in the convention the President of Utkal Union of Journalists Bibhuti Bhushan Kar, expressed his anguish that though the media fraternity has been branded as the fourth pillar of
Democracy since 1947, when the country got independence, but so far there is no constitutional or legal sanctity about their status. Shri Kar pledged that the JDCI shall univocally and unitedly strive to grant necessary constitutional authority to the Journalism Profession.
