Chandigarh September 30: The Punjab Governor and Administrator Chandigarh, Sh. V. P. Singh Badnore expressed grief over the demise of noted journalist, Sh. Gobind Thukral who passed away after a prolonged illness.
Offering condolences to the bereaved family, the Governor described him a fearless and seasoned journalist who will be long remembered for his objective writings in both English and vernacular media.
The veteran journalist had spent nearly three and a half decades as an active journalist with various leading newspapers on senior positions and had reported not only from the states of Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir but from the troubled spots of the north-east and Bihar. His extensive writings on rural India won him the prestigious Statesman Rural Reporting Award in the very year of its inception for reports on the migrant farm workers.
The cremation was largely attended by people of diverse fields at the electric crematorium where wreath was laid on behalf of the Governor Punjab as a mark of respect to the departed soul.