Chhattisgarh Governor Balramji Dass Tandon today said media should play frontal role in taking the country to the new heights of development.
"Media had played important role in country's freedom struggle and strengthening democracy and now the time has come to play frontal role in taking the country to the new heights of development thereby making it the economic superpower of the world," Tandon said here while presiding over the concluding session of two-day media conclave organised here.
Tandon said with the advancement of various communication techniques, the whole world was turned into a global village.
He said with ever changing communication mediums, the role and responsibility of media has increased manifold.
Earlier, addressing the gathering, Punjab Public Relations Minister Bikram Singh Majithia said the journalism is the fourth pillar of democracy and right from the days of struggle for nation's freedom, during Indo-China and Indo-Pak wars, imposition of emergency and other challenges faced by the country, media rose to the occasion and played a significant role in creating awareness as well as opposing any "wrong doing".
He said that with emergence of social media and electronic media, the flow of information becomes too fast so it becomes imperative for media also to be doubly sure before disseminating any information particularly on sensitive issues like communal harmony or religious feelings of any community besides matters relating to security and integrity of the country.
Majithia also urged media persons to highlight the development projects, besides welfare schemes aimed at ensuring the welfare of certain underprivileged sections of the society, so that the benefit of those initiatives should reach the concerned masses.
