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Dandakaranya Samachar, the spokesman of Dandakaranya, the tribal
populated area of 80000 Sq. miles comprising of undivided Bastar
district of Madhya Pradesh, Koraput & Kalahandi district of Orissa,
Khambam district of Andhra Pradesh and Chandrapur district of
Maharashtra, was established at Jagdalpur the district headquarter
of Bastar in then Madhya Pradesh (now Chhattisgarh) on 12th
January 1959 by Mr.Tushar Kanti Bose the Publisher, Printer and
Proprietor of the newspaper.That time it was a bilingual weekly
published in Hindi, English and Halbi ( the local dialect of Bastar
) which was an unique production of its type, most popular among the
people woking in different projects of Dandakaranya Development
Authority and DBK Railway in the area besides the other areas of the
state and the country.
It was the first newspaper of the region started amidst the lack and
shortage of fundamental amenities needed for a newspaper such as
infrastructure, skilled manpower, raw materials and many other
things.Inspite of those unfavourable circumstances, Dandakaranya
Samachar surpassed all hurdles on its way without any break to reach
this glorious 64th year of publication today.The
mentionable part here is that Dandakaranya Samachar not only managed
to survive among those unfavourable circumstances but it gradually
went on widening its size and reach.It was promoted to biweekly in
1980 and then to daily on 12th January, 1985.
On 15th August 1994 Dandakaranya Samachar bagged two more
achievements when it became the first daily to be printed in Web
Offset Machine in any tribal district of the country and secondly
Mrs.Manikuntala Bose who took over as the Editor of the
newspaper became the first lady Editor of any daily newspaper in the
country.Mr.Tushar Kanti Bose became the Editor in Chief from the
day.
On 12th January 2015 after playing various roles at various levels
Mr.Bishwaroop Bose assumed the role of Executive Editor of the
newspaper.
Today Dandakaranya Samachar is being published simultaneously from
Jagdalpur (Bastar) and Raipur (Capital of the state) with multi
colour supplements covering whole of Chhattisgarh,Orissa and other
parts of the country.Different souvenirs are also being published
every year .
The moral of journalism that is being maintained by Dandakaranya
Samachar since its inception is ? Independent Thought, Impartial
Expression ?.Being free from political influence it has always
worked with an open outlook.
Moreover, Dandakaranya Samachar in its journey has never limited
itself to news articles only but has always highlighted and
encouraged the educative and social awakening programmes to
enlighten the people of the region.It has also encouraged the
literary beginners by providing space for their writings etc. and
thus paving a way for many of them to earn state and country wide
fame.
Dandakaranya Samachar has always believed in positive journalism and
this has been in it?s value system for all these years.The newspaper
is resolved to maintain the same in the years to come by changing
with times but without making any compromise with the values which
has brought it so far.May be this is the reason for which
Dandakaranya Samachar has made such a position in this field, that
is not easy for all to achieve.
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