Fayaz Kaloo chairs KEG meet

The Kashmir Editors Guild (KEG) met here on Monday and discussed several issues pertaining to print media across the state.  President KEG and Editor in Chief Greater Kashmir, Fayaz Ahmad Kaloo, presided over the meeting.

The Guild members discussed the forthcoming maiden electionsof the Kashmir Press Club. The president nominee Haroon Rashid briefed themeeting about the steps that have been taken to make the Club a hub ofjournalistic activities.

   

The members insisted that the Club must become a symbol ofunity and all the stakeholders at their own levels must ensure the maidenelection should be a unifying and not a divisive exercise. They asserted thatthe office bearers to be elected must make all efforts to make it a modelinstitution of interaction and activity.

The KEG president briefed the members, in the meanwhile,about his week-long Delhi stay in connection with the summons he had receivedfrom the National Investigation Agency (NIA).

The KEG president said that the central investigating agencyhad a number of queries regarding his own publication, the print media and theKEG.

Pic: Habib Naqash/GK

The KEG, it may be recalled here, was set up to take care ofthe day-to-day issues that the media is facing in Kashmir. It first came intobeing before 2008 and continued till early 2010. Later, it faded away from thescene and was revived in 2016 summer in wake of the raids by police on printingfacilities and offices of the newspapers.

During the past three years, the Guild has been able to setup the Kashmir Press Club, enhance the allocations and the tariffs for theentire media across the state and negotiate the allocation of some funds forthe welfare of the journalists. In the latter case, however, the state is yetto frame a policy in the backdrop of the suggestions put forth by the Guild.

The members suggested that the Guild may require opening up,to a level, to journalists who are not owners and editors so that their pointof view and the issues are discussed on a routine basis.

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