‘Wide-ranging new initiatives
incorporated in News Media Accreditation Policy-2017’
SRINAGAR, JUNE 6:
Given the vast growth and reach of the online news media, the Jammu and Kashmir
Government has decided to extend accreditation facility to the news media
representatives of the online News Portals operating in the State.
The News Media Accreditation
Policy-2017 notified by the government on Monday has
replaced the two-decade old Press Accreditation Policy which was in vogue since
1997.
Given the phenomenal transformation
shaping up in J&K’s
fast-changing media scenario, the Department of Information and Public
Relations (DIPR) had last year moved a proposal for formulating a new News
Media Accreditation Policy for the State.
Accordingly, a proposal was submitted
to the Government in this regard with several new initiatives proposed by DIPR
to be incorporated in the News Media Accreditation Policy to attune it with the
fast-changing media scenario in J&K.
The State News Media Accreditation
Policy-2017 was formally notified by the Government on 5 June 2017 with a
wide-range of new initiatives having been incorporated in the new policy to be
operationalized by DIPR.
In another significant move the
Government has decided to extend the accreditation facility also to the
Cartoonists working with various news media organizations in the State.
In another new initiative the
Information Officers, Assistant Information Officers, Photographers and
Videographers of DIPR will be also entitled to accreditation if they join a
news media organization after retirement.
The Government has also increased the
quota of accreditations to be given to the news representatives of various news
media organizations on the basis of their reach and circulation.
Similarly, the quota has been also
increased for the newspapers and each newspaper will get accreditation facility
for its staff on the basis of the relevant category of the newspaper.
The Government has also decided to
extend the tenure of the State Media Accreditation Committee (SMAC) from the
present one year to 2 years.
The Minister for Information,
Chowdhary
Zulfkar Ali said that many new initiatives were in the offing for the
journalists of the State.
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