This news portal is becoming an example of good journalism in U.P's Ballia

 

Ballia Khabar is continuously active since 2017 assembly elections. balliakhabar.com has more than half a dozen reporters across the district. Ballia Khabar has also produced a chain of more than 14 stringers in four years.

Ballia Khabar is the first choice of the people of the district for daily important news bulletins and legislative updates.In rural areas where mostly people read newspapers this portal give them news on their tips and provide all local updates that they cant get in any newspaper. Now the situation is that even the administrative staff does not get tired of praising the Ballia news with a suppressed tone. Kauser Usman, the founder of Ballia Khabar, says, “Not directly, but the praise or conversation of the administration reaches us. Our job is to bring the truth to the common man. We do not care for praise or criticism for this."

The biggest digital team in the district

Ballia Khabar currently has at least one reporter in each assembly. Even at the block level, under community journalism, ordinary people keep providing information over video or phone. Apart from this, many freelance journalists related to Ballia have also been writing for Ballia Khabar.
Even at the block level, under community journalism, ordinary people keep providing information over video or phone. Apart from this, many freelance journalists related to Ballia have also been writing for Ballia Khabar.  Most Followed Accounts on Twitter and Facebook in Ballia District 


Appreciation of remarkable work during Covid

In the midst of the second wave of Corona in the country, several reports of Ballia news put direct pressure on the administration. The administration took cognizance after the Ballia news story regarding ventilators and within a week the movement was observed. At present, 11 ventilators are in running condition in Ballia. However, due to lack of technician, nurses are operating them. The administration took cognizance of another story in Ballia Khabar which focused on the orphaned children of Dalanchhapra. It remains Ballia's most trusted news portal along with many other such examples.

Is Social Media Making Our Virtual Life Dominating Over Real Life?

 

People now crave more followers on their social media profiles like Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, etc, and do special stuff for being in trend. Social media addiction is a thing now.

For youngsters, students, and teens their virtual life has become more important than real life. Social media giants like Instagram, and Youtube gives money to the original content creators. Sometimes these youth do everything to make their videos viral and earn money only from social media accounts.

There are social media influencers too who have now become social media celebrities. The latest example is of a poor man singing the ‘Kacha Badam’ song which went viral. After that, he got shows and performed in front of the audience and made money out of it.

But the students suffer most as they think their Instagram videos and stories are more important than their studies. Their focus shifts every time to social media rather than their school events. Sometimes they judge people on their virtual profiles and that even impacts real friendships in many cases.

We need to educate people that there is life outside this virtual world that is more beautiful, and practical, and can give you more love than you get on social media. In this time of social media addiction, a family gets separated and each member of the family focuses more on their smartphones than on each other. Even physical conversations have lessened and parents have to Whatsapp their children for any work or for even bringing them to the dinner table.

This is alarming and needs to change. We as a society have to change and keep a balance between our virtual life and real life.