PUBLIC LIFE AND VOLUNTRY SOCIAL SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS

NEWSPAPERS

Newspapers: While, the voluntary institutions allow free play to human emotions and volitions and supply the individual with moral force, the press influences and enriches the course of public life.

The press is a powerful social organ which responds, represents and educates public opinion. The press enriches the general knowledge of the individuals about local as well as world affairs and generates political as well as social consciousness. Because of this the press has been rightly called the "Fourth Estate". Newspapers and periodicals have found a congenial home in Akola as it is served at present by thirteen journals, which purvey district as well as national events and educate the district population. Of these thirteen journals, two dailies, eight weeklies and two fortnightlies are in Marathi, while only two weeklies are in Hindi. The two dailies viz., Shivashakti (M) and the Matrubhumi (M) command good readership and are valued for their work of ventilating the aspirations and grievances of the local people. The Yashwant, Lokvikas, Nava Samaj, Akola Samachar, Morna Kath, Uddhar, and Raj Darpan are weeklies while the Nagar Sevak and Mudrika are fortnightlies published in the district. Besides these Marathi journals, there are two weeklies in Hindi viz., Shiva-Wani and Jamana which command a limited readership. In addition to local journals, many daily newspapers from Bombay and Nagpur also find popular patronage in the district. These include the Nagpur Tunes, the Hitawada, the Maharashtra, the Tarun Bharat (which are all published from Nagpur), the Times of India, the Free Press Journal, the Maharashtra Times and Lokasatta (all published from Bombay). In what follows is a brief account of the voluntary social service organisations in the district.

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