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Media associations connected Sunday (January 18, 2026) urged the authorities to name a caller chairperson for the Press Council of India arsenic the station fell vacant aft Justice Ranjana Prakash Desai completed her tenure past month.
The Press Council of India, a statutory, quasi-judicial assemblage to safeguard property freedom, has been without a chairperson for the archetypal clip successful its history, the Press Association and journalists' bodies of Mumbai, Assam, West Bengal, Odisha, and Chandigarh-Punjab said successful a associated connection successful New Delhi.
"The word of the 14th Council ended much than a twelvemonth ago, but the afloat 15th Council is yet to beryllium formed, and the station of president has not been filled, portion the past chairman's three-year extended word ended successful December," the connection said.
Justice Desai, who has been appointed arsenic chairperson of the Eighth Pay Commission, completed her tenure arsenic Press Council of India chairperson connected December 16, 2025.
The media bodies said the 15th Press Council of India was yet to beryllium constituted completely, arsenic appointments successful the categories of editors and moving journalists are inactive awaited.
The Press Council of India comprises 29 members, including the chairperson, with a tenure of 3 years. Currently, 14 radical — 5 MPs, 3 nominees, and six successful the class of owners and absorption — person been appointed to the council.
In the lack of a chairperson, the process of the constitution of the assembly cannot proceed further.
