Mount Abu Media Conference Action Plan

Mount Abu: A five-day Media Conference-cum-Retreat on “Resetting Media Agenda for a Value Based Society” was jointly organized by Media Wing of Rajyoga Education & Research Foundation and Prajapita Brahma Kumaris Ishwariya Vishwa Vidyalaya from 1st to 5th June, 2018. The Conference which was hosted at Brahma Kumaris’ Academy for a Better World, Gyan Sarovar, Mount Abu, Rajasthan got concluded on Sunday, 3rd June, 2018.

Over five hundred media professionals, consultants, experts and academicians representing all types & kinds of media from all over India and Nepal attended the Conference.

Deliberating through six open sessions on topics of media issues and after undergoing three insight and  five rajyoga lecture-cum-meditation experiential sessions on stress free living, holistic health and happiness, the speakers and participants have arrived at the following Plan of Action:

1)   To realize the goal of building a value based society, there is an emergent need for change in media mindset, views, values and work culture today.

2)   The need of the hour for mass media is to come forward to promote the truth and to facilitate public intervention in revealing the truth.

3)   It is time that journalist discover and develop their inner powers and apply the same in discharge of their personal, professional and social responsibilities.

4)   For that media professionals need to integrate spiritual wisdom and rajyoga meditation in their daily life and work culture.

5)   Media makers and controllers need to make their content positive, sensible, salutary and people centric by being guided and goaded by inner conscience and self regulation.

6)    To make best use of increasingly influential social media, it’s creators and users need to be more mature, responsible & well meaning.

7)   Media need to be very supportive towards building free, frank, fearless and clean public opinion.

8)   There is need for prominently highlighting positive and inspirational news preferably in front page.

9)   To give boost to value based journalism, there is increasing need for mass media to support independent journalistic bodies like ‘Society of Media Initiative for Values’.

Hindi News:

राष्ट्रीय मीडिया सम्मलेन – कार्ययोजना प्रजापिता ब्रह्माकुमारी ईश्वरीय विश्व विद्यालय एवं राजयोग एज्यूकेशन एंड रिसर्च फाउंडेशन की ओर से 1 जून से 5 जून, 2018 तक का “मूल्य आधारित समाज के लिए मीडिया एजेंडा की पुनर्रचना”  विषय पर एक पांच दिवसीय राष्ट्रीय मीडियासम्मलेन का आयोजन किया गया। सम्मलेन का समापन समारोह, 3 जून को ब्रह्माकुमारीज़ एकाडमी फॉर ए बेटर वर्ल्ड, ज्ञान सरोवर, माउण्ट आबू, राजस्थान में आयोजित किया गया।कांफ्रेंस में भारत एवं नेपाल के 500 से अधिक मीडियाप्रोफेशनल्स, सलाहकार, विशेषज्ञ एवं शिक्षाविदों ने भाग लिया।सम्मलेन में मीडिया से सम्बंधित विभिन्न मुख्य विषयों एवं मुद्दों पर कुल छः सत्रों में विचार विमर्श किया गया।

इसके अलावा पांच मेडिटेशन सत्रों में राजयोग की अनुभूति भी करायी गयी।सम्मेलन में तनाव प्रबंधन तथा सुख शांतिमय जीवनशैली के ऊपर तीन सत्रों का भी आयोजन किया गया। इन सभी सत्रों में वक्ताओं एवं प्रतिभागियों ने निम्न कार्ययोजना पर अपनी सहमति व्यक्त की।

 कार्ययाजेना

१. मूल्यनिष्ठ समाज की रचना में मीडिया को अपनी वर्तमान कार्यपद्धति, विचार एवं मूल्यों में परिवर्तन करने की आवश्यकता है ।

२. आज समय की जरुरत है कि पत्रकारिता सत्य को तथ्यों के साथ स्पष्ट बताने के लिए आगे आये और नागरिकों को समाज को मूल्यनिष्ठ बनाने में हस्तक्षेप करने के लिए प्रेरित करे।

३. यह समय है कि पत्रकार अपनी आंतरिक शक्तियों को पहचानें एवं उसे विकसित करें, तथा उन्हें अपने व्यक्तिगत, व्यावसायिक एवं सामाजिक कार्य व्यवहार में लगायें व देश के निर्माण में सहभागिता निभाएं।

४. आतंरिक सशक्तिकरण के लिए आध्यात्मिक ज्ञान एवं राजयोग को अपनी जीवनशैली में समावेश करें ।

५. मीडिया में कार्यरत एवं मीडिया पर नियंत्रण करने वाले लोगों को मूल्यनिष्ठ व्यक्ति एवं समाज की सरंचना हेतु आत्मविवेक एवं स्व-नियमन के आधार पर अपने कंटेंट को सकारात्मक, संवेदनशील और जन हितैषी बनायें।

६. सोशल मीडिया के बढ़ते प्रभाव का सदुपयोग करने के लिए उसे अधिक सकारात्मक एवं उत्तरदायी बनाने की जरुरत है ।

७. लोगों के विचार स्पष्ट, स्वतंत्र और निर्भिक बनाने में मीडिया इस तरह से सहयोगी बनें जिससे लोग अपने जीवन और समाज को बेहतर बना सकें ।

८. मीडिया सकारात्मक तथा प्रेरक समाचारों को अधिक स्थान दें एवं प्रथम पृष्ठ पर प्रमुखता से प्रकाशित करें।

९. मूल्यनिष्ठ पत्रकारिता को बल देने के लिए मूल्यानुगत मीडिया अभिक्रम समिति जैसी मूल्य धारक एवं स्वतंत्र संस्थाओं की आज पहले से भी अधिक जरुरत है ।