Dainik Bhaskar’s staff, which extensively coated under-reporting of Covid-19 deaths in Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Gujarat, has gained the Prem Bhatia Award for Outstanding Political Reporting.
Vaishnavi Rathore of The Bastion Digital journal gained the Environmental and Developmental Reporting Award for “extensive coverage of environmental degradation issues and tribal displacement”, Prem Bhatia Memorial Trust stated in a press release.
Dainik Bhaskar Group newspapers had extensively reported from varied states in regards to the low reporting of Covid deaths within the second wave from April to June. In July, the Income Tax Department raided the residential and workplace premises of the group proprietor at 32 places in Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Gujarat and Delhi. The division later alleged that the group had evaded taxes value Rs 700 crore and indulged in cyclical buying and selling of Rs 2,200 crore, violated inventory market guidelines and “fake expenses” and siphon funds to ebook a number of corporations. established.
The awards have been instituted in 1995 in reminiscence of Prem Bhatia, a diplomat and eminent journalist. “The main objective of the trust is to propagate the values ​​for which Prem Bhatia stood: objective reporting, fearless pursuit of truth and commitment to improve the standards of journalism in India,” the assertion stated.
Past winners of the award embody Indian Express For his work with Executive Editors P Vaidyanathan Iyer and Ritu Sarin, Dipankar Ghosh and Sankarshan Thakur Indian Express, and Nirupama Subramaniam, Raj Chengappa, Neerja Choudhary, Suhasini Haider, Praveen Swamy, Rajdeep Sardesai and P Sainath, amongst others.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
