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DIMAPUR, OCTOBER 8
The state’s Parliamentary Secretary for Information and Public Relations (IPR), Khekaho Assumi on Thursday met the Union Minister of State for Home Affairs, Kiren Rijiju at North Block, Delhi during which they discussed “at length on the best options available to forward the cause of citizen security through digitization, keeping in mind information literacy as a core issue.”
According to a press release from the PRO of Nagaland House, New Delhi, “itwas understood in the course of the discussion that the IPR department being the mouthpiece of the government carries the trust of the people in as much as they want to use it to communicate, identify, persuade or enrich their capacity for correct decision.”
Both underscored the necessity to streamline policies that make information more accessible through the various channels, such as the print media, electronic media including audio visual on relevant issues of the day, it stated. According to the statement, Rijiju also “recognized” that the IPR represents an “indispensable and relevant tool” not only to address the issue of the times but “also as the most important means to impart appropriate information” for social transformation.
“The meeting was conducted in a spirit of easy friendship, both tracing their association during college days at Delhi University. On the anvil were several proposals put in place and relevant issues of innovative ideas, advocacy formation and fund generation to drive the programs were also touched upon.
“The Parliamentary Secretary IPR informed that he is taking up these proposals ‘threadbare’, upon the return of the MOS from his Russian trip. He further elaborated that given the level of transparency possible through the free flow of information, much can be done, provided dynamic leaders are imbibed with the right ethical intent and in tune with the opinion and desire of the public.”
