C-NES announces new media fellowship for North -east journalists

New Delhi/Guwahati, January 2, 2006 — The Centre for North East Studies and Policy Research (C-NES)today announced the CNES-Setu National Media Fellowship for 2006, which will be open to print journalists from the North-east.

Making the announcement, Mr. Sanjoy Hazarika, Managing Trustee of C-NES and senior journalist, said that the fellowship would carry an award of Rs. 75,000; the last date for receipt of applications has been placed at March 15, 2006 and the announcement of the winner would be made on March 31 by a Selection Committee comprising of Mr. Pradip Phanjoubam, editor, The Imphal Free Press, Mr. Dileep Chandan, editor, Asom Bani, and Mr. Hazarika.

The fellowship began last year and the first award winner was Nitin Sethi of Down to Earth, the influential environmental magazine of New Delhi, who focused on the impact and prospects of bamboo in the North-eastern economy, ecology and society. The fellowship last year was open to journalists from other parts of the country but this year’s is for those from the region itself, in an effort to give them opportunities to study issues of concern outside the North-east. They are to travel outside of the region for their projects.

The issues open to applicants include a range which are relevant to the region: among these are floods and disaster management, gender and governance, the Right to Information and increasing domestic violence. Specific regions have been assigned for particular topics.

More details can be obtained by checking with the C-NES offices at Guwahati and New Delhi: C/O RGVN, 8th By lane, Rajgarh Road, Guwahati 781003 tel. 2528652 (Project manager: sanjays19@rediffmail.com, sanjays15@gmail.com) or to the Managing Trustee, C-NES, D6, 6143/3 Vasant Kunj, New Delhi 110070 tel. 26121426 email: sandeep@c-nes.org, sanjoyha@gmail.com.