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Union minister Thaawarchand Gehlot inaugurates website of media school for dalit and tribal youth

Union minister Thaawarchand Gehlot inaugurates website of media school for dalit and tribal youth
NEW DELHI: Union minister Thaawarchand Gehlot on Thursday launched the website of a first-of-its-kind media school to train dalit and tribal youth in journalism.
The media school, Dr Bhim Rao Ramji Ambedkar School Of Media Empowerment (ASM), will be supported by the Indian Institute for Mass Communication (IIMC) with branches in Pune, Assam, Arunachal, Uttarakhand and some other areas.
The Pune centre is likely to be opened shortly.
The social justice and empowerment minister said the media school was an effort to encourage the youth belonging to marginalised segments to find their place through the profession of journalism, as he assured every possible cooperation from his ministry.
"I urge that journalism and media training be also brought under the Pradhan Mantri Kaushal scheme where underprivileged youth get hands-on training in this field like other trades," he said.
Several veteran journalists, editors and dalit, tribal activists supported the idea with dalit rights leader Amar Sable, MP Rajya Sabha being made the chairman of the new school's national coordination committee.
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"To empower youth belonging to marginalised, deprived and exploited sections of the society so that they may use media as an instrument to bring changes in the society and raise the voice of the voiceless millions," reads the mission of the school as mentioned in its website.

The website elaborates on the vision of the school as, "to use media and create an equal and just society. Our pathway is inspired by the vision of Dr B R Ambedkar and Pt Deendyal Upadhyay to achieve this aim in a peaceful and calm manner simultaneously educating and training the youth to serve Mother India".
The media school will have courses on all major streams of journalism and mass communication, including artificial intelligence and cyber security.
The media school is aimed to help dalit and tribal youth join media mainstream as presently their number in the industry is abysmally low in comparison to their real population nationwide.
(With agency inputs)
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