Fellowship for development to the students of journalism

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Charkha has started Charkha-Fellowship For Development since year 2004. The objective of this fellowship is that students of journalism should be well acquainted and sensitized towards key developmental issues of Gujarat and explored them in mainstream media.

Fellowships are given to the subjects like ‘migration and migrant community’, ‘issues in development of Dang district and development journey’ and ‘girl child rights’. Charkha invites applications for the fellowship from different departments of Gujarat that are providing training on journalism and development communication. Nominated students have to submit their identity cards and fellowship topic to charkha. After personal interviews, students will be selected for fellowship.

Total 8 students (5 females and 3 male) of journalism department are selected for all three fellowship of Charkha. Students visited interior region of Gujarat and prepared research report. They got rich information on selected study that is destitution and various aspects of problems in development. They also explored this publicly. They contacted professional workers for in depth understanding and noted their views. After completing this fellowship, students expressed that they got the identity. Their co-students are contacting them for guidance if they have any difficulty regarding developmental issues.

Likewise, ‘Fellowship For Development’ is also granted for journalists of mainstream newspapers about their opinion on important subjects. This Fellowship is sponsored by Charkha and Voluntary Organization of Gujarat, which are working upon key issues. Considering the declining birth rates of girl child, a fellowship subject ‘girl child and Gujarat’ is selected to aware general mass.

Total 4 journalists are selected for this Fellowship sponsored in joint collaboration with Charkha and CHETNA, a non-governmental organization. Selected journalists are regularly writing about different developmental issues and efforts of Gujarat. These journalists visited the areas that have less girl child birth rates for study and then prepared write-ups about the issue. They explored related issues effectively that are published in newspapers like girl child and rights, female feticide, gender bias and role of society and government.