Excelsior Correspondent
NEW DELHI, Dec 21: Senior Journalists Federation of India (SJFI) has urged all State Governments to launch journalist pension schemes or enhance the existing pension amounts.
A resolution in this regard was passed during an online meeting of the national executive committee of the SJFI, presided over by Sandeep Diskshit, national president.
The committee also urged the Central Government to take into consideration the demands raised in a memorandum submitted by the SJFI to the Prime Minister seeking a national pension scheme and a nationwide welfare fund for senior journalists. It hoped the next budget of the Central Government would announce some steps for the benefit of the country’s retired journalists.
Expressing great satisfaction that various State Governments are taking the matter of the retired journalists’ welfare and social security seriously in recent times, the Federation congratulated the State Governments of Chhattisgarh, Bihar, Goa and Tamil Nadu for their recent announcements enhancing the pension amounts being paid to senior journalists in their respective States.
The meeting was attended by the NEC members from various states. They included Anandam Pulipalupula (Telangana), Suhasini Prabhuganonkar (Goa), Kanhu Nanda (Odisha), Benudhar Panda (Odisha), Aswani Kumar (J&K), C Gouridasan Nair (Kerala), Sabanayakan (West Bengal), T Janardhan (AP), K P Vijayakumar (Kerala), George Kallivayalil (Delhi), Shastri Ramachandran (Delhi), and Franco Louis (Kerala). Alexander Sam (Kerala), Subhash Naik & Gurudas Sawal (Goa), and advocate Imran Ali, legal counsel, also attended the meeting. N P Chekkutty, secretary general, presented a report.
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