Journalists asked

Headlines Vol. 1 Issue No. 6

February 22, - March 6, 2002

Journalists asked
“Go to villages to find out their problems”
Meghalaya Governor M. M. Jacob advises scribes to visit remote villages and focus their needs and problems in the media.

Meghalaya Governor M. M. Jacob has advised the media to write about the problems of the interior villages in order to draw the attention of the government. “Go to the villages and ask their problems and needs and write in the newspapers,” Mr. Jacob said in a meet the press programme by Shillong Press Club. “As the villagers cannot come to the cities to express their grievances, it is the duty of the journalists to go to them, find out their problems and focus it”, the Governor said.

Truing his focus from journalists to politicians, Mr. Jacob said that the people’s representatives must be available to the villagers and try to solve their problems for all round development of the under-privileged classes. “There are no such problems which cannot be solved”, he stressed. Regarding the demands of Garos and Bodos in Meghalaya and Assam respectively for separate States, he said this could be solved through mutual discussion. Narrating his personal experiences while he was Union Home Minister when Punjab was burning, he said, “I went to the village and asked their problems. The villagers said there is no leader here to express our grievances as they (leaders) have taken shelter in New Delhi out of fear from the extremists.” Mr. Jacob opined that Meghalaya has tremendous scope for economic development of the villagers through cash crops and horticulture and asked the youths to come forward to achieve the goal.

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