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Patna,(BiharTimes): Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting C M Jatua said on Monday that a three-member fact-finding team of the Press Council of India headed by senior journalist, Rajiv Ranjan Nag, would visit Patna on n April 1-2 to investigate complaints by journalists in Bihar about the difficulties they are facing in discharging their duties. |
During a visit to Bihar last month, the Chairman of the PCI, Justice Markandey Katju, was told that journalists are harassed and they fear losing their job as authorities put pressure on the proprietors not to write anything which goes against the state government.
He had then announced that he would be sending a fact-finding team to inquire about the status of Press freedom.
Last year an RTI activist was informed by the government that Rs 280 million was spent by the government in media advertisements in the previous financial year. The figure during Lalu-Rabri regime was much less.
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