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The State authorities is favourable to journalists, and their issues are being taken to the attraction of Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu, said Minister for Housing and Information and Public Relations Kolusu Parthasarathy.
Participating arsenic the main impermanent successful the ‘Chalo Vijayawada’ programme jointly organised by the A.P. Working Journalists Federation (APWJF) and A.P. Broadcast Journalists Association (APBJA) successful the metropolis connected Wednesday (March 4), the Minister assured the journalists that the wellness security for them would continue.
Regarding their petition for escaped aesculapian check-ups doubly a year, the Minister said helium would sermon with the Indian Medical Association and hospitals astir the same. The Minister besides said plans would beryllium formulated to heighten the journalists’ payment fund.
APWJF wide caput G. Anjaneyulu urged the State authorities to proceed the strategy of providing ₹3,000 a period for 3 years to the families of deceased journalists. He besides requested the allocation of astatine slightest 1 old-age location successful the State for journalists.
Journalists took retired a monolithic rally connected Mahatma Gandhi Road from Raghavaiah Park to Tummalapalli Kalakshetram. They raised slogans demanding allocation of location sites, constitution of a media commission, implementation of pension facilities and enactment of a governing assembly for the Media Academy.
