Press Council reconstituted NEW DELHI, June 21 – Government has reconstituted the Press Council of India inducting 27 new members for a three-year term. The new members are Vijay Kumar Chopra, R Lakshmipathy, Sanjay Gupta, Gurinder Singh, VK Chopra from the category of ‘Owners and *Managers* of Big, Medium and Small Newspapers’, reports PTI.
Similarly, members from the category of ‘Editors’ are KS Sachidananda Murthy, Shravan Kumar Garg, *Jagjit Singh* Dardi, Sheetla Singh, Anil Jugalkishor Agrawal and Bishambhar Newar, according to a *gazette* * notification*. In the category of ‘Working Journalists other than Editors’, Rajeev Ranjan Nag, Uppala Lakshman, Arvind S Tengse, Kosuri Amarnath, Kalyan Barooah, Sondeep Shankar and Arun Kumar have been inducted in the reconstituted council. The new members also include MPs such as Meenakshi Natrajan, Harin Pathak, Sanjay Dina Patil, Rajeev Shukla and Prakash Javadekar. Rajeev Sabade is a nominee of UGC in the reconstituted council. Likewise, Milan Kumar *Dey* is a nominee of *Bar* Council of India and A Krishan Murthy is a nominee of Sahitya Akademi in the council. Neeraj Bajpai has been inducted in the council in the category of ‘Managers of News Agencies’. _______________________________________________ assam mailing list assam@assamnet.org http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org
