Guwahati: Appreciating the Assam government for planning to set up an integrated judicial complex, which is expected to comprise the Gauhati High Court along with the CJM and sessions courts of Kamrup (metropolitan) and Kamrup district in one campus, the Journalists’ Forum Assam (JFA) reiterates its old demand for a media centre where the journalists can assemble for regular interaction and organise training/orientation programmes, workshops, and conferences for updating themselves with the future course of action.
State chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, while attending the closing ceremony of GHC’s platinum jubilee celebration on April 14, 2023, at Srimanta Sankardeva Kalakshetra in the city, announced in the presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Governor Gulab Chand Kataria, Union law and justice minister Kiren Rijiju, GHC’s chief justice Sandeep Mehta, and other dignitaries, that the government was planning to construct the judicial complex in the city.
“The integrated judicial complex is expected to help the common people looking for justice in various occasions with lesser troubles and monetary involvements,” said the forum of scribes in a media statement, adding that the initiative for such a complex in a favourable location in the city should also boost the state government’s decision to beautify the south bank of the mighty Brahmaputra river from Pandu to Chunchali area.
Meanwhile, the JFA appeals to CM Sarma for planning a comprehensive media centre in the city where different scribe’s organisations can have their offices along with a modern auditorium, a digital library, and lodging rooms for the visiting media persons from different parts of northeast India.
The initiative will also indirectly help the Ambari archaeological site be made encroachment free, stated the forum, which added that a public grievance unit on media discourse should also be included in the campus for the benefit of valued readers, listeners, and viewers.
