In order to discuss the various facilities provided by the Delhi Government to mediapersons, a delegation of 11 members of ‘Goa Press Accreditation Committee’ (GPAC) led by Chairman and Editor of ‘Lokmat’ Raju Nayak called on Secretary (Public Relations, Delhi Government) Dr Jayadev Sarangi.
The members in the delegation included Director (I&P) Goa TC Sawant, Information Officer John Aguiar, and others from various media and Goa news organisations.
In the meeting, various issues concerning to facilities being provided to accredited journalists by the ‘Directorate of Information and Publicity of Delhi Government’ like medical facilities, parking facility, bus and rail travel facility were discussed at large.
Dr Jayadev Sarangi, Secretary (PR) opined that such type of interactions between two or more Government departments should take place on regular basis as it would be helpful in bringing out more coherence in the Government rules and policies adopted by different state Governments for the welfare of media persons.
He also informed the delegation that keeping in view the Supreme Court’s guidelines on Government advertisements, the directorate has adopted a ‘Standard Operating Procedure’ (SOP) for ensuring advertisement.
He also said that as per SOP, concerned head of department has to issue a content verification certificate for publication of the advertisement. “The certificate is to be duly signed by the concerned Head of Department before the publication of the advertisement,” he added.