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The Senior Journalists’ Forum of Karnataka has urged the State authorities to easiness the stringent eligibility norms for the assistance of monthly pensions and to widen the payment to each journalists, who person attained the property of 60.
At the yearly wide assemblage gathering held successful Bengaluru, the forum members unanimously passed a solution and stated that each journalists who person served for astatine slightest 20 years successful recognised media organisations listed by the Department of Information and Public Relations and person attained the property of 60 should beryllium considered eligible for the monthly pension.
The forum besides demanded that accreditation issued by the section beryllium made valid for beingness for those accredited for a play of 20 years oregon more.
Addressing the gathering, K. Shanthakumari, caput of the Senior Journalists’ Federation of India (SJFI), criticised the authorities for imposing ‘unreasonable restrictions’ and called for a azygous pension strategy for elder journalists crossed the country.
SJFI enforcement committee subordinate Shastri Ramachandaran urged the authorities to instrumentality a national-level wellness and pension argumentation for journalists done State administrations. He besides called for the reinstatement of railway question concessions for elder journalists and advocated the constitution of a National Media Commission to measure the information of the media and code the needs of retired journalists, galore of whom unrecorded successful hard circumstances.
