Excelsior Sports Correspondent
JAMMU, Aug 22: With an aim to encourage professionalism in the field of Journalism, Press Club of Jammu is going to hold Second Ashok Sodhi Memorial Awards function for best Photographs on his birth anniversary, falling on September 21.
“This will be an initiative of the Press Club of Jammu, which is in the interest of entire Journalist fraternity,” Ashwani Kumar, president PCJ , said here today. He said that this will be an annual feature in which the best photographs will be rewarded suitably with a citation.
Zorawar Singh Jamwal, the Secretary General, said that the awards shall be for three categories with cash prizes of Rs. 11,000, Rs. 8000 and Rs. 5000 while five consolation prizes of Rs 2000 each will also be given.
He said entries have been invited from across the State wherein not only the photojournalists but also the citizen journalists (other than journalists) and Journalism students of Colleges and University based in J&K can register themselves before September 10.
There will be no specific theme for the photographs and those interested can get the forms free of cost from Office Secretary/ Manager at the Press Club of Jammu from August 25 onward.
Senior and professional journalists will be the members of jury to adjudge the best photographs.
Each participant can submit only one photograph (size 8″ x 10″) to the Press Club of Jammu before or by the last date i.e. September 10.
Senior photojournalist Ashok Sodhi had attained martyrdom while performing his professional duties during a fierce encounter between militants and security forces at Samba on May 11, 2008.
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