FJC-MSU student awarded Government of Gujarat’s Media Fellowship

In keeping with

the initiative to create awareness across the State about the social welfare

schemes and other benefits for the mass of the people, the Information

Department (Mahiti Khatu) of the Government of Gujarat reached out to the

Departments of Journalism and Communication in State Universities, requesting

details about the top ten students from the most recent graduating batch of

students.

From the profiles of around 60 students received from

five State Universities, and Gujarat Vidyapith, Devangi Gadhvi, who has

completed her post graduate degree in Master of Journalism and Mass

Communication (MJMC) from the Faculty of Journalism and Communication, The

Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda in June 2019 , secured the fifth

position in the first merit list drawn, and the second position in the final

merit list -- declared on November 19, 2019. She has been awarded the

Government of Gujarat’s Media Fellowship for the year 2019-2020.

The Fellowship comprises a training placement in the

Information Department (Mahiti Khatu) of the Government of Gujarat at Vadodara

location (other awardees have been placed at different Information Department

offices all over Gujarat in urban as well as rural locations) , with

remuneration of Rs. 20,000/- per month. The period of the Fellowship begins

next month and entails orientation through reading material and hands-on

reportage and ground implementation of media campaigns through professional

journalistic and public relations approaches.