Madaripur:
Director General of Press Institute of Bangladesh (PIB). Shah Alamgir said, ‘Graduate degree i.e. BA pass no one can be listed as a new journalist.’ He said, ‘The educational qualification will be relaxable for those who have already spent 12 years in journalism.’
He said these things in the speech of the chief guest after the two-day training workshop of journalists in Madaripur on Friday (February 10) afternoon.
The director general of PIB said, ‘Even if you take steps to bring a list of journalists or registration, there is no shortage of people to criticize in this case. They will say that the government has any purpose in this. Therefore, you have to be vocal to remove the unjournalism from the department and district level.’
He further said, ‘The work of preparing the list of journalists has already started through the Journalist Welfare Fund. The press council and the Press Institute of Bangladesh will be scrutinized through these two institutions. The district level will be written by the district administrators. The list of journalists has been asked.’
Md. Shah Alamgir said, ‘Journalist Welfare Trust has not only provided some money to help the journalists. This fund has been created to provide the status of journalists to the welfare of journalists. A few days ago, the Prime Minister made a fund called ‘Journalist Welfare Fund’ from various individuals and organizations." The Prime Minister said that the fund will be in the Journalist Welfare Fund within this year.
Praising the journalists, the director general of PIB said, ‘The administration and the police cannot do what they are in the country because there are journalists. A lot of things are going smoothly because journalists are active, otherwise corruption would have gone to the unbearable level.’
In this context, he further said, ‘If a doctor is There is nothing that comes about if you don't keep track of the economy or agriculture, but journalists have to keep track of everything, so in my opinion, journalists are the foremost people in the society, I say forward forces.’
Chairman of Mass Communication and Journalism Department of Rajshahi University spoke as a special guest at the closing ceremony of the training workshop in the hall of Madaripur MM Hafiz Memorial Public Library. Pradeep Kumar Pandey, General Secretary of Madaripur Shilpakala Academy and former convener of Madaripur Press Club Bazlur Rahman Montu and many others.