Saturday 9 August 2014

CQ-I & B Minister says no censorship of social media

he Union Information and Broadcasting Ministry Prakash Javadekar informed parliament that there is no any plan to impose any censorship on social media or to regulate any programmes beamed through social media.
The Minister also told the Parliament that the Communication and Information Technology Ministry has given an assurance in this regard.
Social media has become an important tool that is also being used by government departments to reach out to the people. Recently PM Modi has asked social media wing of I & B ministry to keep inform him about what going on the social media sites.
The importance of social media can be understood; with the Javadekar letter to all the Central Ministries in which he urged them to disseminate their policy initiatives through the Communication Hub under the existing New Media Wing of his Ministry.
In the letter, he said each Ministry or department may liaise with the New Media Wing which will cater to all its needs such as disseminating information through packaging and placing of content, wider reach through variety of tools and response management.
Source: http://cablequest.org/news/government-news/item/5657-cq-i-b-minister-says-no-censorship-of-social-media.html
Source: http://cablequest.org/news/government-news/item/5657-cq-i-b-minister-says-no-censorship-of-social-media.html

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