Odisha CM Announces Working Journalists As Frontline Covid Warriors | OTV News
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Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Sunday declared all of the working journalists within the State as frontline Covid warriors. The resolution will profit 6944 working journalists of the State.
Approving a proposal to this impact, the Chief Minister mentioned that working journalists are ‘doing a great service to the State by providing seamless news feed, making people aware of issues relating to Covid at this very trying times and they are great support for our war against Covid’.
It could also be talked about right here that as many as 6944 working journalists of the state have been lined beneath Gopabandhu Sambadika Swasthya Bima Yojana. They are getting medical insurance cowl of Rs 2 lakh every.
Besides, an ex gratia of Rs 15 lakh can also be being supplied to the subsequent of kin of journalists who die of Covid whereas performing obligation.
A senior Bhubaneswar-based journalist Pritiman Mohapatra had succumbed to the virus on Saturday. Two days in the past, Debendra Samantaray, one other veteran journalist working with a Odia day by day newspaper in Sambalpur district, additionally died.
Odisha has up to now misplaced 12 journalists to Covid-19 previously one month, mentioned a report of Hindustan Times.
Earlier on Saturday, Uttarakhand CM Tirath Singh Rawat had declared the journalists of his State as ‘frontline workers’ making them eligible for Covid-19 vaccination with none age restrictions.
