BARAMULLA, JULY 19: The three-member team
of Press Council of India (PCI) led by Mr S N Sinha held extensive
deliberations with the media-persons here today.
Around 50 media-persons from North
Kashmir representing print,
electronic and digital media organizations in Baramulla, Kupwara and Bandipora
districts attended the meeting and briefed the visiting PCI team about their
issues.
Deputy Director Information (PR)
Kashmir, Mr Farooq Ahmad Baba, District Information Officers of Baramulla,
Kupwara and Bandipora and Administrative Officer Directorate of Information
& Public Relations were also present at the meeting.
The issues raised by media-persons
included setting up of Press Club, expanding scope of Accreditation to
accommodate district correspondents, better wages, better communication
facilities, health insurance
and welfare schemes to facilitate discharge of their professional duties.
The media-persons, among others
included, Qaramat Qayoom, Sajad Hussain Peer, Zargar Gulzar, Altaf Baba, Shahid
Imran, Muneeb-ul-Haq, Syed Fayaz Bukhari, Abid Nabi, Suhail Khan, Irshad Ahmad
Bhat and Rahi Nissar.
The PCI team also met the DIG Police
Baramulla, Nitish Kumar, SSP Baramulla, Imtiyaz Hussain and Additional Deputy
Commissioner Baramulla N A Baba.
The PCI panel is currently on a
weeklong visit to Kashmir to get first-hand information about the issues and
challenges
confronting the media-persons in J&K.
The members of the visiting
Sub-Committee include Mr C K Nayak, Dr Suman Gupta and Mr Naveen Joshi.
The PCI team will be visiting
Anantnag tomorrow to meet the local
journalists there.
They are also scheduled to meet the
Chief Minister, Ms Mehbooba Mufti, and Director General of Police Dr S P Vaid.
The delegation of J&K Joint Forum
of Newspapers Editors led by Mr Ghulam Hassan Kaloo is meeting the PCI team at
State Guest on 21 July 2017.
The PCI team will be visiting Jammu
and Ladakh separately before finalizing their report on media scenario in Jammu
and Kashmir.
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