National Defence College (NDC) organised a seminar on ‘Media and Armed Forces- Perception and Reality: Bangladesh Perspective’ at NDC auditorium in Mirpur Cantonment in the city on Thursday.
Chief Information Commissioner Professor Dr M Golam Rahman, chief guest of the programme, highlighted various aspects of media and armed forces in Bangladesh.
He focused on the importance of understanding the nature of media and armed forces, identifying the challenges as well as possible solutions and developing an effective framework for the development in the country.
NDC Commandant Lieutenant General Chowdhury Hasan Sarawardy inaugurated the seminar while eminent personalities from both military and civil society were present.
Major General Sarwar Hossain, Brigadier General Shahedul Anam Khan and media personality Farzana Rashid Brownia presented key note papers.
The speakers said, at present, media and armed forces relation faces number of challenges like lack of mutual trust, inadequate knowledge about each other’s profession, unknown fear of effective engagement, restrictive military polices and unawareness of operational secrecy.
They suggested for identification of the challenges and sincere effort from both sides for development of the relation.
