Govt may declare uniform media policy soon
Prime Minister's Media Affairs Adviser Iqbal Sobhan Chowdhury yesterday said the government is expected to declare a general policy for the print, electronic and online media soon.
"The proposed policy will be aimed at development of media industry," he told a function organised for distribution of cheques among the ill, distressed and unemployed journalists from Bangladesh Journalists Welfare Trust at Chittagong Press Club (CPC), where 27 journalists received cheques.
Iqbal said the policy would be prepared after discussions with all the stakeholders.
The adviser said the ninth wage board for the media industry would also be announced very soon removing anomalies in the eighth one.
He said the government also took initiatives to amend the Newspaper Employee's Service Condition Act-1974 to be passed in parliament.
Chittagong Union of Journalists (CUJ) organised the function, where Iqbal Sobhan urged the journalists to work with responsibility in order to strengthen democracy to resist militancy and conspiracy.
CUJ President Reaz Haidar Chowdhury presided over the function while Vice President of a faction of Bangladesh Federal Union of Journalists (BFUJ) Shahidul Alam, former president of CPC and director of Rupali Bank Abu Sufian, CPC President Kalim Sarwar, CPC General Secretary Mohsin Chowdhury, CUJ General Secretary Mohammad Ali, former CUJ presidents M Nasirul Hoque and Mostaq Ahmed, Tapan Chakkrabarti and journalist Anjan Sen also spoke.
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