SUNIL NEGI, VED UNIYAL AND MANOJ ISHTWAL HONOURED BY UNION MINISTER OF STATE FOR EXTERNAL AFFAIRS GENL V.K.SINGH today.

Indirapuram/ Gaziabad 24 December 2017
The union minister of state for external affairs and MOS North east ( Independent charge) General VK Singh today felicitated three senior journalists namely Sunil Negi, Ved Vilas Uniyal and Manoj Ishtwal in a glittering function of Uttarakhand titled Uttarakhand Maha Kauthig amid the presense of thousands of people from Delhi, Ghaziabad, Uttarakhand and the NCR.
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These journalists were honoured for free, fair and fearless journalism in there respective journalistic career spanning several decades. Senior journalists Ved Vilas Uniyal, Manoj Ishtwal and Sunil Negi has written unlimited numbers of articles on socio political and cultural issues of the country and Uttarakhand and have also authored several books like Dekhi Peed Pahad ki by Ved Uniyal and its english translation by Sunil Negi titled Havoc in Heaven with two editions of Uttaranchal Who’s who carrying the profiles of over 800 prominent and distinguished people of UK.
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Manoj Ishtwal is credited with doing research work and writing tremendously on socio cultural and political issues of Uttarakhand during his career spanning three decades. Apart from incessantly writing on issues of socio pokitical relevance and significance all these journalists have been tremendously contributive in creating awareness in the society through their creative writings and torch bearers.

While Sunil Negi has been too active socio politically right from his student days and extremely contributive in separate Uttarakhand movement apart from being in active journalism, Manoj Ishtwal and Ved Uniyal had been fully involved in hard core journalism while working in Jansatta, Amar Ujala, Nepal TV etc for more than three decades.

The union minister of state for external affairs General VK Singh while heartily congratulating all of them while presenting the awards for constructive, free and fearless journalism hoped thatthey will continue to maintain the highest standards and ethics of the fourth estate considered to be an important pillar of parliamentary democracy. Thousands of people were oresent on this occasion followed by a grand cultural evening.