R ARIVANANTHAM
CHENNAI, MAR 25
Tamil Nadu Sports and Youth Welfare Minister Udhayanidhi Stalin has on Saturday appealed the people not to forward fake messages in social media, as it would create lot of problems to the society at large.
- Greater Chennai City Police conducts an awareness short film contest on “Drive against Drugs
- A common platform for fact checking is the need of the hour: social activists
- Vignesh is the jury in selecting the short films for top 3 positions among the 300 short films received from across the state
போதைப்பொருள் ஒழிப்புக்காக @chennaipolice_ ஏற்பாட்டிலான ஆவணப்பட போட்டியில் வென்ற 'எழவு', அன்பின் போதை, அன்பு, போலீஸ் ஆகிய விழிப்புணர்வு படைப்புகளைத் தந்து பரிசுத்தொகையினை வென்ற தம்பிகள் பிரகதீஸ்,ஹேம்நாத், கிருஷாங்க் நாராயணன் & மனோஜ் கண்ணன் ஆகியோருக்கு வாழ்த்துகள். #SayNoToDrugs pic.twitter.com/WfFVeNca2y
— Udhay (@Udhaystalin) March 25, 2023
With a view to completely wiping out the supply or demand of drugs in the City, the Greater Chennai City Police has conducted an awareness short film contest on “Drive against Drugs’. Distributing the prizes to the winners at Satyam Cinemas, Udhayanidhi Stalin appeals the people to verify the genuineness of the messages before forwarding them in social media. As the fake messages create Law and Order problems, he added.
#Driveagainstdrugs என்னும் @chennaipolice_ -ன் ஆவணப்பட திரையிடல்-காமிக்ஸ் தொடர் வெளியீட்டு விழாவில் பங்கேற்றோம்.இதை சிறப்பாக ஒருங்கிணைத்த காவல்துறைக்கு வாழ்த்துகள். போதையால் வீழும் மனித ஆற்றலை மீட்க மாண்புமிகு முதலமைச்சர்@mkstalin அவர்களின் கரங்களை வலுப்படுத்துவோம். @VigneshShivN pic.twitter.com/mRjoCyi2ng
— Udhay (@Udhaystalin) March 25, 2023
A fact checking platform is the need of the hour: social activists
As of now there is no common platform for fact checking to verify the genuineness of the messages circulating in social media handles such as – Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook etc. Only The Press Information Bureau (PIB) of the lcentral government has such platform to verify the genuineness of the social media messages and also news published in media.
It is time for the DIPR of Tamil Nadu state government/police department to create a common platform for fact checking the social media messages as well as news published in various mediums of media, opines social activists.
The minister also called up on the school and college students to come forward to eradicate the drug from the society.
He thanked the film director Vignesh Sivan for extending his help in selecting the top 4 awareness short films on “Drive Against Drugs’.
Vignesh was the jury in selecting the short films for top 3 positions among the 300 short films received from across the state. Four short films were selected for 3 top positions. Third prize was shared by two short film makers.
A short film titled ‘Elavu’ produced and directed by a Class XI student bagged the first prize. The second prize was given away to Hemanth for his film ‘Anbin Bothai’ and Krashank Balanarayanan’s ‘Anbu’ and Manoj Kannan’s ‘Police’ bagged the third prize.
The minister Udhayanidhi Stalin also released the Awareness Comic books on drugs produced by `Learn with Comics’ NGO in the presence of school students. The comic books were produced based on the two real crime incidents.
GCCP Joint Commissioner (North) T S Anbu, Joint Commissioner of GCCP (North Zone) R V Ramya Bharathy, JCP (East Zone) Disha Mittal and Director Vignesh Sivan were present.
Washermenpet Deputy Commissioner Pawan Kumar Reddy among others was also present.
