CM Yogi provides Rs 10 lakh financial help to families of journalists who died due to Covid-19

New Delhi: Families of about 55 journalists were honoured by UP CM Yogi Adityanath on Saturday and were extended a financial assistance of Rs 10 lakh as a mark of respect to the scribes for their commendable work during Covid-19 pandemic. Some prominent journalists included senior journalist of Times of India Lucknow and former bureau chief of India Today Subhash Mishra and TV today journalist Rohit Sardana also. The Rs 10 lakh cheque of financial help was distributed by CM Yogi himself at a function in Lucknow today.

Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath was accompanied by India TV Editor-In-Chief and Chairman Rajat Sharma. The families of scribes were given a cheque of Rs 10 lakh each.

Through this initiative, UP government seeks to encourage and honour the tireless and unparalleled contribution of journalists in spreading awareness and highlighting the pressing issues during the Covid-pandemic.

During second wave of pandemic, many journalists across the country got infected on duty and lost their lives, leaving their families helpless.

Addressing the event, India TV Editor-In-Chief and Chairman Rajat Sharma said that he had urged UP CM for vaccination policy for journalists to which the latter readily agreed. Free vaccination drive was undertaken for journalists in Noida, under which over 25,000 journalists were inoculated.

Journalists who families were given Rs 10 lakh assistance:

Pramod Shrivastava
Shiv Nandan Sahu
Sacchidanand Gupta
Himanshu Joshi
Ankit Shukla
Raffikur-Rehman Rashidi
Prem Prakash Sinha
Dheerendra Dhir
Pawan Mishra
Harishankar Gupta
Rakesh Srivastava
Mohammed Wasim
Kunal Srivastava
Salahuddin Sheikh
Usha Aggarwal
Ram Naresh Tiwari
KK Sinha
Arun Kumar Pandey
Rohit Sardana
Ajay Shankar Tiwari
Om Prakash Jaiswal
Madhusudan Tripathi
Sushila Devi
Shafi Ahmed
Mohan Shukla
Subhash Mishra
Kaushal Kishore
Waqar Mehendi
Akhilesh Krishna Mohan
Amarendra Singh
Sayeed Gufran Miyan
Kailashnath
Ajay Sharma
Ravi Prakash Awasthi
Ankit Srivastava
Rajkishore Tiwari

CM Yogi had this announcement of financial assistance, a month ago, on the occasion of Hindi Journalism Day. He said that UP government was committed to providing all support and will continue to encourage journalists.

“During such challenging and testing times, all the journalists and media workers have risked their lives to bring to us all the relevant and authentic information. They have worked 24×7 which is commendable,” he had said.