Tripura Labour Minister Tinku Roy Saturday mentioned social media posed a big problem to standard print media’s means to remain related.
Addressing a Nationwide Press Day occasion held on the Rabindra Shatabarshiki Bhawan in Agartala, Roy mentioned, “Digital and social media have change into a significant supply of earnings for a whole lot of youths in Tripura. To outlive, conventional media homes must adapt to adjustments.”
The minister additional mentioned that in contrast to in massive states the place media organisations can rely upon commercials from company corporations, native media homes in Tripura should depend on state authorities commercials as their major income. He then mentioned the BJP-led state authorities has elevated the annual media spending from Rs 3.5 crore to Rs 10 crore after coming to energy in 2018.
Roy mentioned the state authorities has revised the month-to-month pension for retired journalists from Rs 1,000 to Rs 10,000, however expressed concern that solely 5 retired journalists have been capable of avail of the pension up to now.
He urged officers from the division involved to determine eligible retired journalists who could be supplied the pension, and added that the federal government was within the technique of revising the parameters in order that extra folks might get the advantage of the scheme.
The Nationwide Press Day is widely known on November 16 yearly to mark the institution of the Press Council of India on that date in 1966.
