Kalinga TV Colloquium – 2015, an initiative of Kalinga Media and Entertainment Pvt. Ltd. was organized on Sunday with a daylong panel discussions on various topics such as “space in electronic media for under-served and under privileged communities, reconciling freedom and accountabilities: Media in information consuming era and Odisha-2020”. 

 

 

The Colloquium was organised under the aegis of Dr. Achyuta Samanta, Founder of the famous Kalinga Group of Institutions and Kalinga Media and Entertainment Pvt. Ltd. Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT) & Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences (KISS) are two of Odhisha’s most prominent educational institutes in Odhisha. 

 

 

 

Inaugurating the colloquium 2015, Dharmendra Pradhan, Union Minister of State for Petroleum and Natural Gas, Government of India said Media should be cooperative and friendly. Media should be free from corporate and has to be more sensitive towards general public. The inaugural session was graced by Mr. Maxwell Ranga, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Embassy of the Republic of Zimbabwe; Mr. Pradeep Kumar Amat, Minister of Finance and Public Enterprises, Government of Odisha; Mr. Ranjib Biswal, Member of Parliament (RS); Prasad Harichandan, President, Odisha Pradesh Congress Committee; Mr. G. C. Pati, IAS, Chief Secretary, Government of Odisha, and Mr. Anurag Batra, Chairman & Editor-in-Chief, Business World.