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Hello Jammu News at 6:53:00 PM 0


Dir Information to monitor clearance of bills on daily basis
JAMMU, MARCH 16: The Department of Information & Public Relations (DIPR) has asked all the approved newspapers and other periodicals to furnish the advertisement bills of the current financial year immediately for release of payment before the fiscal closure.
“The newspapers and other periodicals which have not submitted the advertisement bills of the current year as yet may furnish the same immediately for release of payment before the current financial year ends,” said a Circular issued by the Director Information & PR, Mr Muneer-ul-Islam.
“In case of any delay in submission of advertisement bills by the newspapers, the responsibility shall be with the respective newspaper managements,” the Circular said.
According to the Circular, the payment of advertisement bills is being made according to the rates notified vide Government Order No: 26-ID of 2013 dated: 07.08.2013 read with Endorsement No: ID/A/30/77-1 dated: 31.01.2018. The revised advertisement rates notified vide Government Order No. 48-ID of 2017 dated: 23.11.2017 are pending implementation as the Categorization of the newspapers is under process.
As per the Circular, the Joint Directors of Information, Kashmir/Jammu have been asked to ensure that the advertisement bills pending in their respective offices are cleared forthwith and no liabilities on this count, in any case, are carried over to the next financial year. 
The Director Information, as per the Circular, has sought report on daily basis about clearance/verification of advertisements bills, budgeted as well as non-budgeted.
Pertinently, the Government has earmarked a budget allocation of Rs 30 crore for newspapers and other periodicals on account of government advertisements for the current financial year. The Government has during the past three years increased the Advertisement Budget considerably from Rs 22 crore in 2014-15 to Rs 30 crore in 2017-18 and Rs 35 crore for 2018-19.

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Hello Jammu News at 7:40:00 PM 0

New advertisement rates to be implemented after categorization; Newspaper advt budget pegged at Rs 35 cr for 2018-19
JAMMU, FEBRUARY 21: The Committee constituted by the government to calibrate the criteria for categorization of the empaneled newspapers met here today under the chairmanship of Director Information Muneer-ul-Islam.
Joint Director Information Headquarters, Sajid YehayaNaqash; Joint Director Information Kashmir, Mir Zahoor Ahmad; Joint Director Information Jammu, Naresh Kumar;Deputy Director Information Jammu, Atul Gupta;Deputy Director Information (Central), Avleen Kour Bali; Deputy Labour Commissioner Jammu, Thakur Sher Singh; Manager Ranbir Govt Press Jammu, Kulvir Singh; Coordinator Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIM) Jammu, Manohar Khajuria and Senior Assistant Professor, MERC, Kashmir University Dr Syeda Afshana were present at the meeting
The meeting held threadbare deliberations on the parameters and criteria to be adopted for categorization of the newspapers and other periodicals in light of the Advertisement Policy-2016 for release of government advertisements and fixation of rates thereof.
Pertinent to mention that the government has constituted a broad-based committee to deliberateon the issue of categorization and submit its recommendations to the Empanelment Committee headed by Secretary to the Government, Information Department. The Empanelment Committee will finalize the categorization of the newspapers and other periodicals to implement the new advertisement rate structure announced by the government recently.
The government while ordering revised advertisement rates for the newspapers and other periodicals has made it conditional with the categorization of the newspapers.

The Advertisement Budget for 2017-18 was Rs 30 crore which has been hiked to Rs 35 crore in the 2018-19 Budget.
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