THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan has made it transparent that authorities will amend the hot guidelines, issued by home department, that put in place a number of restrictions on journalists who're reporting on ministers and authorities officials.
“Mediapersons expressed issues over provisions of the ideas. The authorities has decided to carry essential amendments to the circular. It can be finished quickly,” mentioned Vijayan in a letter to chairman of INS regional committee MV Shreyams Kumar.
INS – which had strongly objected to the GO dated November 16 issued by additional leader secretary (home) Subrata Biswas – had written a letter to Pinarayi Vijayan, with a request to withdraw the controversial circular. The identical demand was raised by the opposition (UDF) in the assembly and the chief minister had replied then that the GO can be amended.
The controversial circular restricted tv journalists from approaching ministers and senior officials for bytes with out prior permission and certified information and public relations department (IPRD) because the nodal company for disseminating all news associated with the federal government. The GO additionally directed authorities officials, as opposed to the ones in IPRD, to not immediately interact with the media as that follow would quickly lead them to assets for anti-government stories.
In his letter to INS, Vijayan mentioned the troubles expressed by the society have been baseless. “Government has no intent to limit media and media individuals. It has at all times taken a stand to uphold media freedom. The authorities has only approved IPRD to make essential facilities for making the job easy for journalists,” he mentioned.
According to leader minister, the aim of the federal government is to put in place a gadget that will facilitate hassle-free reporting of presidency functions attended by CM and ministers. “IPRD will give right kind announcement to all media. Certain shortcomings in the existing gadget want to be addressed. This will only make functioning of media easy,” he added.
The leader minister defined the cases during which new guidelines have been issued. “While there is a rise in the collection of journalists with visual and online media homes changing into active, the desire for updating previous guidelines has arisen,” he mentioned.
Sources in the authorities mentioned the house department – which had issued the ideas – has already been directed by to make essential amendments and reissue the ideas. The process is lately underway, mentioned assets.
“Mediapersons expressed issues over provisions of the ideas. The authorities has decided to carry essential amendments to the circular. It can be finished quickly,” mentioned Vijayan in a letter to chairman of INS regional committee MV Shreyams Kumar.
INS – which had strongly objected to the GO dated November 16 issued by additional leader secretary (home) Subrata Biswas – had written a letter to Pinarayi Vijayan, with a request to withdraw the controversial circular. The identical demand was raised by the opposition (UDF) in the assembly and the chief minister had replied then that the GO can be amended.
The controversial circular restricted tv journalists from approaching ministers and senior officials for bytes with out prior permission and certified information and public relations department (IPRD) because the nodal company for disseminating all news associated with the federal government. The GO additionally directed authorities officials, as opposed to the ones in IPRD, to not immediately interact with the media as that follow would quickly lead them to assets for anti-government stories.
In his letter to INS, Vijayan mentioned the troubles expressed by the society have been baseless. “Government has no intent to limit media and media individuals. It has at all times taken a stand to uphold media freedom. The authorities has only approved IPRD to make essential facilities for making the job easy for journalists,” he mentioned.
According to leader minister, the aim of the federal government is to put in place a gadget that will facilitate hassle-free reporting of presidency functions attended by CM and ministers. “IPRD will give right kind announcement to all media. Certain shortcomings in the existing gadget want to be addressed. This will only make functioning of media easy,” he added.
The leader minister defined the cases during which new guidelines have been issued. “While there is a rise in the collection of journalists with visual and online media homes changing into active, the desire for updating previous guidelines has arisen,” he mentioned.
Sources in the authorities mentioned the house department – which had issued the ideas – has already been directed by to make essential amendments and reissue the ideas. The process is lately underway, mentioned assets.
No move to curb media freedom, assures CM Pinarayi Vijayan
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