JFA reiterates demand for a media centre in Guwahati

Guwahati: Appreciating Assam government for planning to set up  an
integrated judicial complex, which is expected to  comprise the
Gauhati High Court  along with CJM & sessions courts of Kamrup
(metropolitan) and Kamrup district in one campus, Journalists’ Forum
Assam (JFA) reiterates its old demand for a media centre where the
journalists can assemble for regular interaction  and organise
training/orientation programs, workshops, conferences for updating
themselves with the future course of actions.

State chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, while attending the closing
ceremony of GHC’s platinum jubilee celebration on 14 April 2023 at
Srimanta Sankardeva Kalakshetra in the city, announced in presence of
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Governor Gulab Chand Kataria, Union law
& justice minister Kiren Rijiju, GHC’s chief justice Sandeep Mehta
with other dignitaries, that the government was planning to construct
the judicial complex  in the city.

“The integrated judicial complex is expected to help the common people
looking for justice in various occasions with lesser troubles and
monetary involvements,” said the forum of scribes in a media
statement, adding that the initiative for such a complex in a
favourable location in the city should also boost the State
government’s decision to beautify the south bank of mighty Brahmaputra
river from Pandu to Chunchali area.

Meanwhile, the JFA appeals to CM Sarma for planning a comprehensive
media centre in the city where different scribe’s organisations can
have their offices along with a modern auditorium, a digital library,
and lodging rooms for the visiting media persons from different parts
of northeast India. The initiative will also indirectly help Ambari
archeological site to be made encroachment free, stated the forum,
adding that a public grievance  unit on media discourses should also
be included in the campus for the benefit of valued readers, listeners
and viewers.