TN announces Welfare Board, ‘Kalaignar’ award for journalists

The award includes a cash component of Rs 5 lakh and a certificate of appreciation, he said.

Kalaignar is a reference to former Chief Minister M Karunanidhi and anything, including a pen, used to write is “Ezhuthukol.”

Announcing setting up a welfare board, the Minister said it would integrate schemes for working journalists and also provide welfare assistance and render support.

The financial support for families of journalists who die in harness would be increased to Rs 5 lakh from the present Rs 3 lakh, he said.

Based on length of service, currently upto Rs three lakh is provided as support to such families from the Chief Minister’s Public Relief Fund, he added.

Financial support would be provided to young, aspiring and eligible journalists to pursue higher education and get trained in reputed journalism schools like the Indian Institute of Mass Communication and Asian College of Journalism, he said adding journalists would also be trained to develop their professional, language and technology related skills.

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