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| SRS demands financial package for print media | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, June 11: With the print media facing an “unprecedented crisis”, the Shri Ram Sena, Jammu and Kashmir president Rajiv Mahajan has demanded financial package to help the sector.
Mahajan said the newspaper industry is facing an “unprecedented crisis” with no advertising revenue and huge input costs.
As the coronavirus lockdown was imposed on March 25, Rajiv Mahajan said newspapers have cut down their pages to unprecedented levels with many merging weekend supplements to the main editions.
“Despite these measures, newspapers are losing money every single day,” he said.
He, according to the sources, said that some of the treasury officers said that print and electronic media is not an essential service and failed to clear their pending dues for the last four to five months.
He reminded such officers to read the guidelines issued by Central Government on March 25, 2020 in which it said print and electronic media are an essential service whose operational continuity should be maintained.
He urged the Lt Governor Girish Chandra Murmu to instruct the Information Department and treasury officers of Jammu to clear all the pending dues of print media immediately so that they pay monthly salaries to their employees timely for their day-today activities during the pandemic.
He also demanded increase in budget spend for print media and immediate settlement of payment towards all outstanding bills of advertising from Information Department of J&K UT.
Mahajan urged the Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Lt Governor Murmu to announce a relief package for the survival of print media.
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