{"id":142906,"date":"2014-12-04T02:11:12","date_gmt":"2014-12-04T02:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/151.106.38.4\/2014\/12\/04\/governor-acharya-lauds-csr-by-nagaland-post\/"},"modified":"2014-12-04T02:11:12","modified_gmt":"2014-12-04T02:11:12","slug":"governor-acharya-lauds-csr-by-nagaland-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/2014\/12\/04\/governor-acharya-lauds-csr-by-nagaland-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Governor Acharya lauds CSR by Nagaland Post"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nagaland Governor P.B. Acharya Wednesday felicitated Nagaland Post on its 24th anniversary and also congratulated the first news daily for organising a conclave to mark its 24th anniversary adding, it was a notable contribution to society by involving in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR).
\nSpeaking as chief guest at the anniversary celebration at Hotel Acacia here, the Governor said \u201cI am happy to be part of the conclave on \u2018Paradigm of socio- economic progress\u2019. I congratulate the Nagaland Post editorial team and the entire staff for organising this conclave\u201d. The Governor, who had been involved with Nagaland since 1967, lauded Nagaland Post for shouldering the responsibility of providing service to society despite its initial lack of resources, manpower and bringing out the newspaper with outdated technology to cope with the challenges.
\nHe said today, Nagaland Post has become much more developed, vibrant and matured giving wide coverage of not only of local issues but also national and international events packaging them in the right presentable perspective.
\nHe advised the media that \u201cwithout fear and favour\u201d, there was a need to disseminate information and express views.  He also expressed surprise on hearing a newspaper (Nagaland Post) has accepted corporate social responsibility in a \u201cgreat way\u201d and lauded the Editor-in-chief Geoffrey Yaden for introducing this concept.  \u201cOne of the notable contributions of Nagaland Post which I have observed is its involvement in corporate social responsibility. It is also something new to me. And in corporate sectors who are in training or manufacturing there is a mandate law that two percent of the total net profit of all corporate sector have to be set aside for corporate sector responsibility\u201d, said the governor. Acharya said by providing training to the unemployed youth in the field of skill development, leadership and also working against substance abuse user, HIV\/AIDS, career guidance etc., Nagaland Post had inspired everyone and made Nagaland more meaningful. He said media had a vital role in moulding the healthy society to develop the way of life and in the right direction
\nMedia also reflected the factual and relevant information and continues to be the best device to spread awareness in the society, be it political, social or economic, the governor said.
\nThe Governor in his address also referred to rampant corruption in society and said that the media has \u201cto pay a very vital role in exposing the corruption\u201d. He said \u201cwe ourselves have created the situation\u201d the current bleak situation in the state. \u201cWhy corruptions are so rampant? This has to be boldly and fearlessly highlighted by the newspaper.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Acharya said newspapers in Nagaland have done a wonderful job. \u201cJudiciary and media is doing more than the political parties and social workers\u2026so I salute the judiciary, I salute the newspaper especially the Nagaland Post\u201d said the governor. He said Nagaland Post had \u201cthe guts\u201d to say that over 60% of the teachers appointed by the government were proxy teachers and asked the education department to take action and \u201cif they do not take action\u2026this is the duty of the newspaper.\u201d
\nThe governor also said that either China or India has to become \u201ca great power in the world and we have the potentiality. Ours is a democratic country and we can march ahead with new leadership and new ideas to catch up and….to march ahead.\u201d
\nEarlier, Editor-in-chief Geoffrey Yaden while addressing the conclave said that the daily had seen \u201cdays of struggle\u201d since it started.
\nHe also reflected on the power of the media and said \u201cmedia can be a powerful tool but it should not be a tool for power\u201d.
\nYaden said the objective of the conclave was to learn from the innovations of other societies for socio-economic progress. He said that Nagaland also needed to learn to innovate its own concept of socio-economic progress. Recalling his conversation with Dasho Karma Ura, Yaden said planning should be democratic and not bureaucratic and that it has to be implemented with discipline.
\nFormer chief secretary Alemtemshi Jamir recalled the early days and how Nagaland Post began its innings and the immense difficulties and threat on the life of the Editor Geoffery Yaden. He said despite general scepticism about the success of the newspaper, it proved all sceptics wrong and has instead been growing from strength to strength and has indeed impacted the \u201cthinking process\u201d in the state.
\nEarlier, Rev. Dr Stephen from Malaysia gave the invocation prayer and special song by Nagaland Conservatory Music faculty-Noel Dela Rosa and Judy Honor from Philippines. Others who graced the occasion included – R&B minister Azo  Neinu, Lt. Gen. Bipin Rawat, GOC 3 Corps; Brig. N.D Joshi; Brig. Ratan Pal, DIG 6 Sector; NPF functionaries, NPCC members, legislators– Amenba Yaden MLA & chairman, NBDA; S.I Jamir (MLA), C. Apok Jamir (MLA); State BJP party members led by president Dr. M. Chuba Ao, Prashant Arora and Johhny G. Rengma, BJP national vice president for ST Morcha; Lotha Hoho Dimapur president T.L Merry; Naga Mothers\u2019 Association president Abeiu Meru, ACAUT Nagaland, BAN, Ao Students\u2019 Union Dimapur, officials, civil society members and well wishers.
\nKarma on Gross National Happiness & Socio-Economic Progress<\/span>
\nKeynote address on \u201cParadigms of Socio-Economic Progress\u2019 was presented by Dasho Karma Ura, president, Centre for Bhutan Studies and GNH research Thimpu, Royal Kingdom of Bhutan and also vice chairperson of India-Bhutan Strategic Dialogue.
\nIntroducing Gross National Happiness (GNH), Dasho Karma Ura explained that in the concept that was invented by His Majesty, the King of Bhutan, welfare accrued not only from material goods but also from the unquantifiable spiritual and emotional well-being. Thus, he said, GNH was an important guiding principle of development is the harmonization of spiritual and material aspects that impacted ecology, longevity, creativity and social bonding (citizenship). On the other hand, he said GDP was based on primary indicators to gauge the health of a country\u2019s economy where despite high GDP, people in urban areas were less happy than people living in rural areas.
\nWhile broadly touching upon lessons from 40 years as an example of sustainable development in Bhutan, Ura said even countries like Denmark, Japan and Canada etc have applied GNH as a human development index. Ura said GNH stressed on time management- work and rest and the importance of caring for the environment\u2019s flora and fauna which in turn, promoted holistic happiness. He also said the UN has adopted GNH as an important aspect of human development adding this explained that the where it meant that happiness and not happen-ness
\nTouching on Nagaland, Dasho Karma Ura opined that Nagas have a vibrant and dynamic culture which could be harnessed for promoting community development. He opined that the north east and Nagaland in particular, have immense potential for bio-diversity which needed to be promoted. He pointed out that true leadership was not about leading but preparing and promoting young leaders of the future. Ura said the desire for happiness was a universal part of human nature, the importance attached to happiness, what we believe to be, and how it is found are shaped by culture.
\nAlemtemshi also reflected on the key note address delivered by Dasho Karma Ura and said that all development planning has an objective to make people happy. However, material realities also do dominate the thinking process, he said. Unlike Bhutan which has been touched by the great civilizational history of China, India and Tibet, Nagaland had been a \u201cprimitive tribal\u201d society still practicing technology of yore.
\nHe said in modern planning happiness was related \u201cduties, rights and responsibilities\u201d. Due to violent nature of \u201cour history\u201d, there was the need to opt for a \u201ccentralized planning\u201d. However, such planning also led to questions of \u201caccountability, transparency and responsibility\u201d.
\nThe 24th anniversary of Nagaland Post began with greetings from Bano Haralu who also compered the sessions. Invocation prayer was led by Rev. Dr. Stephen Lee from Malaysia. The conclave was introduced by Dr. Neel Konwar, organizational development and critical psychologist.
\nPanellists who spoke during the conclave include Vice Admiral (Retd) Shekhar Sinha, Jaikant Singh, head of State Alliance National Skill Devlopment Council, New Delhi and Dipanjon Konwar, mechanical engineer, MBA, lead auditor ISO. Each of the panellists spoke on the topic of the day and their experience in respective fields. The day ended with an interactive session where dignitaries and participants asked relevant questions to the panellists and the key note speaker.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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