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Declare Journalists as front line Covid Warriors: UDA
YB WEB DESK. Dated: 5/10/2021 12:54:30 PM
Jammu, May 9 United Democratic Alliance (UDA), convenor Rajiv Mahajan has urged the Lt Governor Manoj Sinha to declare the journalists as Front line Covid warriors. UDA convenor Rajiv Mahajan urged the Lt Governor of Jammu and Kashmir UT to declare the journalists as Front line warriors of Covid in order to cover them under the risk insurance and other government relief in the grim Covid situation. Several state Governments have already declared them as Front line warriors and covered their risk. Lauding the journalists who are taking great risks to cover the very serious situation of Covid- 02 and are doing service to humanity and highlighting the shortcomings in the system to come to the rescue of suffering people. The signatories to the statement included Lt Gen. (Retd.) Pradeep Singh Mehta Principal Advisor, Manish Sahni (Former Convener), IG (Retd.) Sudhir Dogra General Secretary, Co- Conveners Col. (Retd.) S.S Pathania, Com. (Retd.) Bhushan Devan, Col. (Retd.) PS Jamwal, Col. J.P Singh, (Retd. DC) Vijay Sharma, (Retd. DC) M. L. Sharma, Er. V.K. Gupta (Retd. SE), R.K Khajuria (Retd. ETO), Varinder Gupta (Retd. Special Secretary), R.C Puri (Retd. K.A.S), Krishan Manhas, Satish Ponshi, Kulbir Singh Slathia, Bharat Bhushan Gupta, Gajan Singh Khajuria, Rajinder Gupta, Rajeev Luthra, Prem Sharma, Vivek Wazir, Rakesh Badyal, Pawan Gupta, Sanjay Jandyal, Varnider Singh Billawria, Yash Khajuria, Jaswinder Singh (Kuku), Sanjeev Sharma, Dr. Karan Gupta, Shiv Kumar Sharma, Rajinder Gupta (Bittu), Rakesh Slathiya, Sushil Singh Jamwal (Retd. General Manager J K Cement), Shashi Bhushan Sharma (Contractor) and Sheikh Sajjaad Poonchi (Retd. Principal).