Sunday, December 20, 2009

Bold Voice organizes debate.







Kishtwar: The Bold Voice organized a debating contest on the theme “ Role of youth in Politics” at Kishtwar. The programme which was held at Community Hall Kishtwar besides a large number of students was attended by prominent persons including political activist of district. Students from different institutions participated in the contest and the adjudicators of the contest were Prof. Surinder Sen , Sh Kewel Krishan Sharma Retired Educationist and author of various books, and J.R.Aryan Rtd S. E and a columnist. At the inauguration of the function, founder of the weekly Sheikh Nasir Hussain while speaking on the occasion said that he started this newspaper with the purpose to provide a platform to the people to express their views and opinion and to high light their genuine demands. Sheikh Nasir said that journalism is the mirror of the society and a journalist has to act with profound sense of responsibility. While informing that Bold Voice has completed six years of its publication he said that despite of all odds the Bold voice has unearthed various scams and has also raised the genuine issues of the area. He assured that like past it will also inform and comment upon the matter of public interest in decent, sober and accurate manner.
In the contest half of the participants spoke in favour of the motion whereas rest spoke against the motion. Two experts Qazi Akhter and J.R Aryan also spoke on the topic and presented their views. In the contest Subash Kumar from Degree College Kishtwar won the first prize, whereas second prize was won by Vijay Kumar of GDC Kishtwar and third prize was won by Prateek Rathore of Little Angel Academy Kishtwar. On this occasion special prizes were given to different local organizations including Students of Asraria valley Public School, Message for Humanity and Students Welfare Association. Among others who were present on this occasion include Block Development Officer Kishtwar Qazi Akhter Hussain, District President Congress Pradeep Parihar, PDP leader Rehmat-ullah Malik, NC Youth leader D.D Farooq, Dr. Nazir Hussain and Roop Lal President Teachers Forum.

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