{"id":60460,"date":"2016-11-05T11:13:32","date_gmt":"2016-11-05T18:13:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=60460"},"modified":"2016-11-05T11:13:42","modified_gmt":"2016-11-05T18:13:42","slug":"empower-pci-jfa-on-ndtv-india-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2016\/11\/05\/empower-pci-jfa-on-ndtv-india-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"Empower PCI: JFA on NDTV India issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>By Our Correspondent<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Guwahati: Journalists\u2019 Forum Assam (JFA) expresses concern over the recent directive from the Union information &amp; broadcasting\u00a0 ministry to take Hindi news channel \u2018NDTV India\u2019 off air for 24 hours with effect from 01 hours on 9 November\u00a0 till 01 hrs of 10 November 2016.<\/p>\n<p>The directive came after an inter-ministerial committee set-up by the I&amp;B ministry found the news channel violating the programme code set under the Cable Television Networks (Amendment) Rules, 2015. According to the committee\u2019s observation, the NDTV India in a live telecast had revealed\u00a0 the crucial and strategically sensitive information when the terror attack on the Pathankot air base was being carried out.<\/p>\n<p>The JFA argues that the news channels of the country should be brought under the purview of Press Council of India (PCI) with more power to the quasi-judicial body to deal with such situations. In need, the council can be named as Media Council of India (MCI), said the JFA in a statement issued to the media outlets.<\/p>\n<p>We also demand appropriate initiatives for the news channel employees for their due benefits in the line of Majithia Wage Board meant for the print media employees including the journalists,\u201d said JFA president Rupam Barua and secretary Nava Thakuria<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Our Correspondent Guwahati: Journalists\u2019 Forum Assam (JFA) expresses concern over the recent directive from the Union information &amp; broadcasting\u00a0 ministry to take Hindi news channel \u2018NDTV India\u2019 off air for 24 hours with effect from 01 hours on 9 November\u00a0 till 01 hrs of 10 November 2016. The directive came after an inter-ministerial committee [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nava-thakuria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}