The Ajmal Foundation under Ajmal Media Welfare Scheme has offered financial supports to five ailing journalists of Assam. Khasrul Islam, manager of Ajmal Foundation has handed over the amount totalling rupees 1,15,000 to the beneficiaries at a brief function held at Guwahati Press Club on Wednesday.
Dr MRH Azad, deputy manager of Ajmal Foundation with NI Laskar, Haidor Bora and Nava Thakuria, secretary of Guwahati Press Club were also present on the occasion. The detail list of beneficiaries assisted under the Ajmal Media Welfare Scheme (AMWS) is as follows.
SL Name Media Amount Purpose 1. Pitamber Newar Dainik Purvoday 25000/- Medical Aid 2. Bitul Bora Reporter, News Live 25000/- Medical Aid 3. Arup Chakrabarty Nababarta Prasanga 25000/- Medical Aid 4. Pankaj Bora News 30, Raha 15000/- Medical Aid 5. Basharullah Mujadaddi Asomiya Pratidin, Dhing 25000/- Medical Aid
Earlier, on 14 Jan 2016 a sum of rupees 50,000/- was handed over to Ismail Ali of Protidin Time at a function held at Hojai for his medical expenses.
It may be mentioned that Ajmal Foundation is a premier non-government organisation in the region with a very clear cut policy to help artistes and media persons in the time of crisis. In February 2009 Ajmal Foundation announced the launch of the Ajmal Media Welfare Scheme with a corpus of rupees 25 lakh.
The management of Ajmal Foundation now plans to raise the corpus in future so that more media persons can get the benefit under the scheme. The total amount released under the scheme since its inception (up to December 2015) stands at rupees 1554838/-. The number of beneficiaries is 80 belonging to various media outlets.
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