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“ROLE OF MEDIA AND NGO IN DEVELOPMENT OF SOCIETY” -ABSTRACT- Mass media are the channels, such as newspapers, magazines, radio or television use to communicate information to large group of people’s. By regularly convening information to important audiences, from the general public to government, and international decision maker a media plays a major role in shaping public debate. Media organizations are independent of political influence and work as important informative aid to the society. NGO is the organized groups of individuals which can or cannot be institutionalized.
NGO can help to establish the relation between government and the people. NGO’s work as nonprofit and non government organization on more constructive and accurate basis. NGO’s work for welfare of the masses. The media and non government organizations have an important role to play in the civil society. The media are the among the most important allies to the NGO’s community some way in which the media can be important to the NGO’s include writing articles / Telecast – Broadcast Programs that ??? Create and environment of political pressure. Convey general information, serving as a public education. ??? Counter popular misconception. ??? Comment on an issue providing an alternative view point. In these paper more emphasis is given on how media can promote awareness about NGO’s activities and also how NGO’s need media to convey their message to society and government and also to form public opinion about various policies and lastly media and NGO’s can work for betterment of society continuously ” ROLE OF MEDIA AND NGO IN DEVELOPMENT OF SOCIETY”
Communication is a process to achieve mutual understanding or to have an interaction or exchange of ideas , opinions , facts , information , etc among all human beings or communication is the act of transmitting information , ideas , knowledge from one person to another. Media is most impressive tool of communication. Print media , books, magazines, newspaper , broadcasting , radio , telephone , audiovisual , TV, movies , documentaries etc. Communication is very significant as it is a psychological need of an individual to form a society.
It is very important which satisfy basic needs of life. Mass Media are viewed as mass media because their reach extends the vast heterogeneous masses of the population of the country at the same time. With the help of mass media messages can be sent and received in any part of the world may be rural or urban. Role of media- print media as well as electronic media is the awareness of people as well as society has increased enormously. Electronic media has more impact on society as compare to print media because it is visual aid of information
NGO”s worked as nonprofit & nongovernmental organization on more constructive and accurate basis. NGO’s are nongovernmental organizations that function for the welfare of the masses. In India rise and growth of NGO’s is mainly due to the general failure of the government to deliver justice to the masses. It was expected from the government of India that it would take up the responsibility of social economics development of the messes especially the weaker section.
But Indian government failed to deliver goods in several areas including public health, education, family welfare due to cheap politics and corruption. Many NGO’s have come into existence to work on several issues related to societies and people. NGO’s generally operate in different areas like charity, welfare, relief, rehabilitation. In recent years many NGO’s have set up education institutions which cater many professional courses. A brief account of the service rendered by the voluntary organization is given below. NGOs generally operate in the following areas: Charity ??? providing financial assistance, food, donating land, house, etc. (Welfare ??? providing educational, medical and other facilities. (Relief ??? providing relief assistance during floods, earthquakes, war, etc. (Rehabilitation ??? providing rehabilitation facilities to drug addicts, mentally and Physically challenged person, widows, war victims, etc. , The contribution of NGOs in the field of education, rural development, ecology consumer protection, welfare of children, women, aged, widow, etc. needs no explanation.
Particularly, in the field of primary education health relief, leprosy, drug addiction family welfare, population education, adult education, etc. , the voluntary agencies have contributed immensely. NGO media relations: A review There is a motion that the NGO-media relationship is often cozy because media in general are on the side of many NGO’s. Media only can expose the efforts of NGO’s, but also can enhance the legitimacy. So the relation of an NGO or any organization with the media needs to be ongoing on the basis of information while also recognizing the need of news media.
NGO’s depend on media coverage because it can increase the public awareness about an organization lead to a better understanding of the group’s mission and help gain public support for its activities. For the same the personal relation with reporters, editors and producers play unique role In discussing the NGO media relationship it is important to consider what interests media. In this context formatting messages to gain media attention is an important consideration because media are market driven.
They concerned about audience interest to sell their stories or programmers. NGO’s need to consider not only the interest of journalist but also the audience while providing content and information. Media have stronger influence on economic and political convince reporters of the importance of issue. NGO’s that successfully network with media invest considerable time and effort in making things easier and more understandable for journalists. The media and NGO’s have an important role to play in the development of civil society.
NGO’s are organized groups of individual which can or cannot be institutionalized . NGO’s can help to establish the relationship between government and people. Media organizations are also important to the development of civil society. Media organizations are independent of political influence and work as an important informative aid to the society. Media helps a lot to educate the child ,youth as well as adult under different programmes like Balbharti, adult education by telecasting youth training programmes.
It can increase interest and awareness of public towards environmental protection, wildlife protection, water management, prevention of air and water pollution, consumer protection. The contribution of NGO’s to the fields of education rural development, ecology, consumer protection, welfare of children, women, old age people, widows is very need no explanation particularly in the field of primary education, health relief, leprosy, drug addiction, family welfare, population education, adult education many voluntary organizations have come forward and contributed immensely.
NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON “ROLE OF NGO’s & YOUTH IN SOCIAL TRANFORMATION” S. J. R. S. COLLEGE KALWA DIST -THANE 27th March, 2010 ABSTRACT AND RESEARCH PAPER ON “ROLE OF MEDIA AND NGO IN DEVELOPMENT OF SOCIETY” BY Mrs ASHA KULKARNI Mr. MAHESH PATIL Lecturer in Botany Lecturer in F. C S. J. R. S. COLLEGE KALWA S. J. R. S. COLLEGE KALWA REFERENCES:-
An introduction to mass communication and mass media- ( Manohar R WadhwanI Social awareness and Personality Development ( Michael Vaz ( Madhu Nair ( Meeta Seta Mass Communication A Basic study (Asphi Doctor (Farzana Chaze www. icnl. org Mrs ASHA KULKARNI Mr. MAHESH PATIL Lecturer in Botany Lecturer in F. C S. J. R. S COLLEGE KALWA S. J. R. S COLLEGE KALWA