Sikkim Press Club elections

Gangtok: The election of the new executive body of Press club of Sikkim has been declared on 23rd June in a general meeting of the club at its office. For smooth conduct of the election the house also unanimously formed a three-member committee wherein Pema Leda Shangdrepa and Mala Rana Patro are the members under the chairmanship of Subash Deepak. Up to 7 June the members have to clear their outstanding dues of memberships and on 8 June the voter list would be brought out, the house declared. Today, the house was also dissolved after the General Secretary’s annual report and the financial report from the treasurer. General Secretary Bhim Rawat, however, reading out the annual report said that despite the crunch of funds in the club, the club had organized technical and journalism oriented programmes as well as for the benefit of the local journalist the club had demanded the union ministry of Information and broadcasting to make the nodal agency to Public Information Bureau, Gangtok so that there would not be problems for the local press to get the RNI registration and title verification which had been a cause of concern since long for the Sikkimese media. Rawat also informed the meeting that a media welfare fund committee has been set up under the chairmanship of Hemant Giri for financial aid to the journalists in case of any kind of adversity. C.D.Rai, the senior journalist had presided the meeting.