The Directorate awards ten fellowships to local journalists working in both print and electronic media, either based in the plains or in the uplands, with the urge to cover all possible aspects of climate-related issues on water, health, agriculture, food and other aspects
TFM Desk
In continuation of its media promotional program on State-level Media Fellowship on Climate Change Reporting, the State’s Directorate of Environment and Climate Change has issued a fresh call for the year 2024-2025 from interested journalists based in the State.
The fellowship program, initiated in 2019, is broadly aimed at promoting interests in local journalists on climate-related issues in Manipur with a larger perspective on national and global concerns. Each year beginning 2019, the Directorate awards ten fellowships to local journalists working in both print and electronic media, either based in the plains or in the uplands, with the urge to cover all possible aspects of climate-related issues on water, health, agriculture, food and other aspects.
The call, open up to the 31st March, is open to local journalists interested and willing to report on three sub-themes, namely, climate and health, climate and agriculture, and climate and water. The fellowship is open in four categories, namely, open category for print media reporter; open category for electronic media reporter; woman journalist category for print media reporter; and hill journalist category for print media reporter. Journalists with minimum one year of reporting experience can apply for the fellowship carrying a consolidated amount of INR 50,000.
Applications have to accompany by a letter of endorsement from the editor concerned and addressed to the Director, Directorate of Environment and Climate Change, Government of Manipur, and will be screened by a panel of experts.
The larger opportunity for the fellowship program is exposure to subnational and national-level knowledge exchange programs and capacity-building exercises with experts from the Indian Institute of Sciences (Bengaluru), Centre for Science and Environment (Delhi) and other reputed institutes. In the long-term design of the program, excelling reporters will have the opportunity to attend national and global conferences on climate change.
The impact of the fellowship program has seen many of the fellows, including relevant expert members in the panel under the Directorate’s Media Resource Center of the State Climate Change Cell, attending national and international programs on climate-related issues. The program, too, has been much appreciated by the Ministry of Environment, Forest & Climate Change, Government of India and other national institutes for pioneering work in the subject matter which is of global concern today.