Date:09/04/2008 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2008/04/09/stories/2008040952920200.htm

Andhra Pradesh

Training camp held for Urdu reporters

Staff Reporter

No dearth of funds: Press Academy chief

AP Press Academy has published RTI
Act in Urdu
Coverage for scribes under ‘Arogya Sri’ scheme urged

Sangareddy: The Press Academy of Andhra Pradesh is ready to organise more training camps for Urdu journalists, particularly in the Telangana region, which has a sizable number of Urdu readers, according to its chairman D. Amar.

Addressing a training camp for Urdu reporters of the district here on Tuesday held in collaboration with the Andhra Pradesh Union of Working Journalists, he said that updating knowledge was important for Urdu reporters was important, as newspapers played an important role in keeping the language alive. He said that there was no dearth of funds for organising refresher courses and workshops for Urdu reporters from the rural areas.

APUWJ State president D. Somasekhar said that no other State in the country had prepared so much of resource material for the benefit of Urdu reporters like the AP Press Academy. He said that the Press Academy had also published the Right to Information Act in Urdu. Municipal Vice-Chairman Jalaluddin Baba said that technology had kept Urdu dailies on a par with other mainstream newspapers in terms of photographs and news.

Plea for computers

APUWJ Medak unit president M.A.K. Faisal wanted the academy to provide computers to Urdu reporters.

He also sought extension of Arogya Sri insurance scheme to journalists. Yousuf Kamal of Moulana Abdul Kalam Azad Urdu University, stressed the need for training the reporters in mandals.