Dehradun. A delegation of the Devbhoomi Journalists Union, Uttarakhand met the Chief Minister and made him aware of the various problems faced by the journalists of the state and demanded their solution. The delegation submitted a memorandum in this regard to the Chief Minister. The Chief Minister assured the delegation that the problems would be resolved.

Union’s State General Secretary Dr. VD Sharma requested the Chief Minister to give some attention from his very busy schedule to rectify the disturbances prevailing in the Information Department. The journalist world will be grateful to you from the heart.

Union State President Vijay Jaiswal drew the attention of the Chief Minister towards the government’s promise by not including the names of journalists in the revised mandate of Ayushman Bharat / Atal Ayushman Yojana.

Apart from this, discriminatory attitude by the department in the allocation of advertisements in the demand letter, no discussion with journalist organizations in setting policy related to journalists, lack of communication between journalists and officials, reservation in guest planets for journalists coming from outside, arrangements in Dehradun Under the cooperative partnership scheme, restarting the scheme of giving loans at cheap interest and subsidy rate to the accredited journalists, raising the limit of the loan amount to five lakhs, journalist colony, journalist protection act, making cashless health U card, room to registered journalist organizations Or the demand for allotting land, old tender, tender issued by the respective advertisement department and to streamline the state’s veteran journalist pension scheme from the year 2017, etc. were included.