'Journalists should not accept awards from govts they critique': P Sainath declines AP government award https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/maharashtra-bjp-mp-gopal-shetty-compares-farmers-suicide-to-fashion-trend-sparks-row-309345-2016-02-18 08 Jul, 2021
Explaining why in a series of tweets, Sainath said that journalists should not accept awards from governments they cover or critique as they are "external auditors to the government". Sainath told Newslaundry that his declining of the award should not be perceived as a comment against any specific government. “It is a personally evolved professional principle and I do not impose it on others,” he said. “I am not saying that everyone who accepts a government award will sing to its tune, but there is a certain ethical framework of protocol that I want to keep for myself.”
Sainath refuses Padma Shri https://www.hindustantimes.com/delhi/sainath-refuses-padma-shri/story-2alQHsika2dtlQdROnfjWN.html Jan 30, 2009
Eminent journalist P Sainath, Rural Affairs Editor, The Hind, reportedly declined to be listed for a Padma award this year. In his journalistic career of 28 years, Sainath, who has received over 35 awards and fellowships, both national and international, including the ‘Asian Nobel’, the Magsaysay Award, in 2007, has noticeably not accepted a single government or state award.
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Wildfire continues to take the toll of Mhadei forests in Sattari 15th March 2023 in Whatapps Save Western Ghats Group
Though Goa government alongwith the Forest and Fire personnels as well with the Navy helicopters controlled the spread of wildfires, it has continued to take toll even today in the remote areas of Satre and Derode of Sattari.
The Chief Minister Pramod Sawant, along with the Forest Minister Vishwajit Rane and the MLA, Devya Rane conducted emergency meeting of State Disaster Management Authority and various stakeholders at Morle, and given directives for bringing the wildfires under control, it has continued even today to pose serious threats to forest, ecology and wildlife of the Mhadei Wildlife sanctuary at inaccessible areas in Derode and Satre.
The officials of Forest and Fire, with the help of volunteers from Morle and vicinity, made attempts to curtail the spread of wildfires in the forests of Morlegad from the early morning. The helicopter deployed by the Indian Navy, contributed in dousing the wildfires on the Morlegad, by bringing water from the reservoir of the Anjunem dam. However, in the inaccessible hilly terrain of Satre and Derode the wildfires continue even today, burning the dried underground vegetation as well as the huge trees.
Madhu Gaonkar from Candola, who visited Satregad, with Elvis Gomes, speaking to TOI, said, "Today, we visited the area, at the foothills of the Satregad and met the villagers, who suffered losses, as the fire gutted their many fruit-yielding cashew trees. The huge boulders too came rolling down, and have posed threats to them. Wildfires that broke out in Satre, Derode and other places, revealed to be man- made.
Today, the Deputy conservator of forests, of Wildlife, Anand Jadhav along with the Range forest officer of the Mhadei Wildlife sanctuary Geerish Bailudkar and the Forest personnels, visited the affected areas in Derode to investigate the causes of wildfires and ascertain the losses suffered by the horticulturists.
Amrutsingh a wildlifer when contacted said, "Though, the major incidents of wildfires came to light through the media, this year. From the last few years, TOI repeatedly brought to light incidents of wildfires that took place in Caranzol and other areas of the sanctuary. However, no sincere efforts or stringent actions have been initiated by the Forest department and this amounted for causing massive scale destruction and degradation of the legally protected forest covers. Goa government should constitute a fact finding committee for investigating the wildfires and immediately chalk out the strategy for the long term protection and conservation of the sanctuary, restraining increasing encroachments.
Rajendra P Kerkar
Keri- Sattari
Goa