Mangaluru Journalist Vijay Kotian donates award money of PaGo Award to feed hungry
Mangaluru: The winner of the 2019 Pa Go (Padyana Gopalakrishna) Rural Correspondent Award conferred by Dakshina Kannada Working Journalist’s Association, Journalist Vijay Kotian set an example by donating the winning award money to the Karunya Scheme run by M. Friends Charitable Trust.
Vijay Kotian, who is a senior correspondent for the Vijay Karnataka Newspaper donated a sum of Rs. 5,001 of the Award money along with an additional amount of Rs 2,499, a total of Rs 7,500 to the Karunya Scheme, through the senior journalist Arif Padubidri, the secretary of M. Friends Charitable Trust during the Pa Go Award Presentation Ceremony, which was held at the Mangalore Press Club on 31st of December.
During the occasion, Dakshina Kannada Deputy Commissioner Dr. Rajendra K.V, District Police Superintendent B.M Lakshmiprasad, DCP Vinay Gaonkar, D.K District’s Working Journalists Association’s President Srinivas Nayak Indaje, and several others were present.
Under the ‘Karunya Scheme’ developed by the M. Friends Charitable Trust, everyday dinner arrangements are made to feed the people accompanying the patients at the Wenlock Government Hospital in Mangalore. The daily expenditure for this cause amounts to Rs. 7,500 as per the Trust. Vijay Kotian took it upon himself to oversee a day’s feeding and thus donated the required amount at the award gathering.
Through their ‘Karunya Scheme’, M. Friends has been feeding the hungry for the last 3 years in the city.
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Affront to non-Hindi speaking people: Chidambaram slams use of Hindi words in bills' names
New Delhi (PTI): Congress leader P Chidambaram has slammed the "increasing practice" of the government using Hindi words in the titles of the bills and said the change is an "affront" to the non-Hindi-speaking people.
Chidambaram said the non-Hindi-speaking people cannot identify a Bill/Act with titles that are in Hindi words written in English letters, and they cannot pronounce them.
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"I am opposed to the increasing practice of the government using Hindi words written in English letters in the title of the Bills to be introduced in Parliament," the former Union minister said late Monday night.
Hitherto, the practice was to write the title of the Bill in English words in the English version and in Hindi words in the Hindi version of the Bill, Chidambaram said.
"When no one pointed out any difficulty in the 75 year practice, why should government make a change?" he said.
"This change is an affront to non-Hindi speaking people and to States that have an official language other than Hindi," the Congress leader said.
Successive governments have reiterated the promise that English will remain an Associate Official Language, Chidambaram said.
"I fear that promise is in danger of being broken," the Congress MP said.
