Indian Journalists' Association

The following members were elected to the Executive Council of Indian
Journalists’ Association at the Annual General Meeting held on 20th
March 2016.

President: Sekhar Sengupta (Dainik Statesman)

General Secretary: Anindya Sengupta (The Telegraph)

Members:

1. Mihir Ganguly (Freelance), 2. Mrinal K. Biswas (The Echo of India),
3. Tarakeswar Mishra (Prabhat Khabar), 4. Shymal Mukherjee (Prayag),
5. Tapas Ghosh (The Telegraph), 6. Barun Ghosh (The Telegraph), 7.
Arijit Dutta (AIR), 8. Debasis Das (Dainik Statesman), 9. Tarak Nath
Roy (Purbakshan), 10. Joy Prakash Das (Ekdin), 11. Aminur Rahaman
(Sambad), 12. Sambhu Lal Karmakar (Samayer Bhir), 13. Chandra Mitra
Shee (Dainik Statesman), 14. Kamlesh Pandey (Sanmarg), 15. Tapesh Kr.
Basu (Halfil), 16. Aditya Narayan Choudhury (Khabor Aaj Kaal Parshu),
17. Kazi Fazle Elahi (CTVN), 18. Shymal Kumar Naskar (Lokmanash), 19.
Sikha Deb (Bikeler Pratidin), 20. Jayanta Das (Seema Rekha), 21. Rajib
Chakraborty (Dainik Statesman).

The following members were coopted as per EC meeting held on 20th March 2016.

1. S. Sabanayakan (The Hindu), 2. Supriyo Bandopadhyay (Sambad
Pratidin), 3. Pallab Kumar Chatterjee (Bartaman), 4. Debasish
Choudhury (Amar Kagaj), 5. Mohammad Wajid (Aabshar).

Mr. S. Sabanayakan, President, IJA, and Mr. Sekhar Sengupta, General Secretary, IJA, have issued the following statement on Feb. 18, 2016:

Indian Journalists’ Association (IJA), has welcomed the State Government’s decision to give health insurance cover to accredited journalists upto the age of 65 years. IJA thank the Chief Minister, Ms. Mamata Banerjee, for this decision.

However, the CM is requested to widen the insurance cover to all categories of genuine journalists who have to toil hard in unusual hours to produce newspapers and transmit news through electronic media.

These journalists cannot be left out from any government benefits proposed by the State Government.

The Executive Council, with President, S. Sabanayakan in the chair, met at the IJA Office on Saturday, December 26, 2015, and took the following decisions:

1. An eye camp will be held at the Press Club on Sunday, January 10, 2016 from 10 am. Susrut Eye Foundation will provide a comprehensive eye check-up to members.

An Executive Council meeting of the IJA will be held at the IJA office on Saturday, Dec. 26, 2015, at 1 pm. All EC members and invitees are requested to attend the meeting without fail.

Sekhar Sengupta
General Secretary

President: Selvakumaraswamy Sabanayakan (The Hindu)
General Secretary: Sekhar Sengupta (Dainik Statesman)
Vice-Presidents: Prabir Ghosal (E TV) & Tarak Nath Roy (Purbakshan)
Secretary: Shyamal Mukherjee (Dainik Prayag)
Treasurer: Tapas Ghosh (The Telegraph)
Assistant Secretaries: Tapesh Kumar Basu (Halfil) & Kamalesh Pandey (Sanmarg)

The newly developed IJA website, www.ija.org.in, will be launching on February 28, 2015, at Press Club. The nicely laid-out website fulfilled IJA’s long standing wish to go global of its activities.

The website had a soft launch on AGM day last year. Senior member, Mihir Ganguly, had done the honours then.

Like previous years, IJA General Secretary, Sekhar Sengupta, brought
out an attractive IJA wall calendar and a diary. They were distributed to members who attended the medical camp on February 7, 2015, at Press Club.

A medical seminar on geriatrics, organised by IJA and supported by
ONGC, was held at Press Club on February 28, 2015. Well-known
geriatrician, Dr. Dipankar Debnath, dwelt on many aspects of the disease affecting the elderly for the benefit of the well-attended gathering.

The 93rd annual general meeting of the India Journalists’ Association
(IJA) will be held at Press Club, Kolkata, on March 22, 2015, from 10
a.m.