EMFA appreciates hike in advertisement rates
EMFA appreciates government for hike in advertisement rates Guwahati, January 7: Electronic Media Forum Assam (EMFA) has appreciated Assam government for its decision to hike the government sponsored advertisement rates for the newspapers by 60 per cent over the existing one. Moreover, the EMFA urges the government to enhance the contributions in the form of advertisements to the Assam based satellite news channels too. Mentionable is that a meeting held on January 3 between the representatives from the State government and newspaper owners’ association in presence of State information & public relations minister Basanta Das resulted in the assurance from the government to hike the advertisement rates with effect from January 1, 2014.
Earlier, most of the newspaper owners of Assam under the banner of Northeast Newspapers Society adopted protest programmes against the failure of Assam government in hiking its advertisement rates and blacked out government advertisements and State government related news items since December 24. Following the assurance from the State information & public relations minister in the meeting, the newspaper association lifted the ban on government advertisements and news on January 3 last.
The EMFA pointed out that the news channels of Assam, as everyone is registered as ‘free to air’ channel, are more dependant on the advertisements for their survival. Hence the forum urged the government to consider improved rate of advertisements for the news channels also. However, the EMFA maintains that the managements of news channels should use the enhanced fund for the benefit of their employees with the structured salaries, other allowances, PF and ESI benefits.
Random Stories
22 Aug 2010 - 6:58pm |
Dibya J Borthakur
Traffic movement in the Raha town bazzar area has become extremely difficult due to deplorable road condition for the last 2 years. About 500 dwellers of Raha bazzar area are suffering badly as...
26 Jul 2012 - 7:20pm |
editor
A magistrate was seriously injured on his stock taking visit to Kokrajhar on Thursday. The incident took place in the morning when circle officer Bipul Saikia was on the way to inspect the refugee...
31 Jul 2017 - 7:25pm |
Subhamoy Bhattacharjee
It’s been a year since Kaziranga National Park was inundated by the worst floods to have hit Assam in over a decade. Among the 100-plus wild animal emergencies that CWRC (the Centre for Wildlife...
25 Jul 2017 - 10:07pm |
Akshaya Pranab Kalita
A workshop of Jyoti-Bishnu Rabha songs started in B.V.F.C.L HS School Auditorium, Namrup which is organised by Namrup Swargam Kala Niketan. The programme was inaugurated by Surjya Bhagwati with a...
Other Contents by Author
Electronic Media Forum Assam (EMFA), while congratulating Arun Jaitley for being bestowed the responsibility of Information & Broadcasting ministry (under GoI), urges him for initiating a separate wage board for the employees of privately owned television channels of India. Prime Minister Narendra Modi on November 10 in New Delhi distributed the portfolios of his expanded Union cabinet, where Jaitley has been given the Information & Broadcasting (I&B) ministry in addition to Finance and Corporate Affairs.“We expect new I&B minister to take up the issue of a separate wage board for the television employees in the line of Majithia Wage Board for journalist and non-journalist...
Electronic Media Forum Assam (EMFA) has urged the management of Focus NE, a multilingual satellite news channel to reinstate all the media employees, who were sacked arbitrarily under the ‘cut-cost’ formula recently. It is understood that over 40 television journalists and other employees of Focus NE, earlier known as NETV, were either sacked or forced to resign as the management wanted to reduce the running expenditure of the media outlet. The affected journalists and their well wishers in the media fraternity have already demonstrated today (Monday) in front of the news channel office at Ulubari in Guwahati. The EMFA argues that the management should follow the norms endorsed by the...
Electronic Media Forum Assam (EMFA), while appreciating the recent verdict of the Supreme Court to implement the Majithia Wage Board recommendations for journalists & non-journalists of newspapers from this month onwards, has emphasized on pay hike for journalists & non-journalists, engaged with privately owned television channels. The apex court on April 9 had directed the newspaper managements across India to implement the recommendations of new wage board, which would be applicable since 11 November 2011 and to clear the arrears up to March 2014 to be paid to all eligible employees within a year. Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC), a regional non-governmental organisation that...
Electronic Media Forum Assam (EMFA) has condemned the unprovoked attacks on some media persons representing different news channels at Kalaigaon of Darang district on Friday. Mentionable is that following clashes between two groups of people, two districts namely Udalguri and Darang have witnessed incidences of violence in the last two days.It is alleged that some members belonged to All Assam Minorities Students' Union have physically assaulted the local media persons while they were covering the day long bandh there. One camera and other equipments have also been reported to be smashed by the unruly activists.The EMFA, while urging the district authorities to take note of the incident,...
Add new comment