Prabhat Khabar's Senior Journalist Rajeev Pandey Received 'Laadli Media Award'

• 25 Oct 2023

Why In News?

Recently, Rajiv Pandey, a senior journalist of Prabhat Khabar's Ranchi unit, has been awarded the 'Laadli Media Awards 2023' by 'Population First', a prestigious organization working in the field of gender equality.

Key Points:

• The Laadli Media Award is given by the 'Population First' organization for promoting gender sensitivity. The Laadli media award was announced by the organization on October 21 this year.
• More than 850 journalists from across the country in 13 languages had submitted entries for the award, out of which 87 were selected and felicitated by the jury members. Apart from these, 31 journalists were given jury commendation letters.
• Prabhat Khabar has received the award at the 13th Laadli Media and Advertising Award for Gender Sensitivity (Regional) 2023 organized by Population First Organization. Last year, another journalist of Prabhat Khabar, Guruswaroop Mishra, was also honoured with the award.
• He received the award for a story on domestic workers titled 'Poor condition of domestic workers, no leave and no proper wages' published by Rajiv Pandey, chief correspondent of Prabhat Khabar Ranchi unit.
• The vice-chancellor of Baba Amte Divyang University, Jaipur, Prof. S.K. Singh was also present on the occasion. Dr Dev Swarup, Head of Policy and Partnerships, United Nations Population Fund, Jaideep Biswas, Programme Management Specialist, UNFPA, Anuja Gulati, Programme Management Specialist and Kalyan Singh Kothari, Secretary, Lok Samvad Sansthan felicitated Pandey.
• It is worth mentioning that Rajiv Pandey has already been given three fellowship awards by Chennai-based institute REACH. In the year 2014, jharkhand has received fellowships on the status of TB disease, non-communicable diseases in the year 2019 and diabetes in the year 2023.