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Press Tours
The media interactive sessions is the ‘Media Outreach Programme’ which is
planned in selected state capitals on issues such as socio-economic
development, infrastructure, development schemes etc. Under this initiative,
important Union Ministers and senior officials of the concerned Ministries
are invited to participate in the event for interaction with national and local
media to highlight the important initiatives taken by the Government.
Vartalaap is a programme organized for urban/rural journalists to keep
them aware/updated about the various Central Government Flagship
Schemes for the welfare of urban/rural populace.
Feedback, Feature and Photo Services
One of the important functions of the Press Information Bureau is to keep
the Government informed of public perception about government policies
and programmes as reflected in media. The feedback reports prepared by
the PIB include inputs from the national English and Hindi dailies published
from the capital, inputs from regional language newspapers as sent by the
Regional/Branchoffices of the PIB, inputs from TV news channels, web
media and magazines. PIB Officers provided feedback to their respective
Ministries and Departments.
The PIB officers also provided inputs regarding media trends on
important matters relating to their Ministries/ Departments. As part of the
Special Services, the Feedback Cell in PIB prepared daily digests and special
digests based on news stories and editorials from National as well as
Regional dailies and periodicals for the use by Ministries. The Feature Unit
of the Bureau issued Features, success stories backgrounders, info-nuggets,
photo-features which were also sent to the Regional/Branch Offices for
translation and circulation to the local media. The Feature Unit of PIB has
been issuing on an average over 200 features annually.
International Film Festival of India
The Press Information Bureau was part of the IFFI 2016 to facilitate
dissemination of Festival related information to media at the venue in Goa.
It provided favourable and encouraging work environment and facilitated
participation of the media persons in the festival. A total of 419 media
persons were accredited through online registration process for the coverage
of the Festival.
News Agencies
Press Trust of India
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India’s largest news agency, Press Trust of India (PTI) is a non-profit sharing
cooperative owned by the country’s newspapers with a mandate to provide
efficient and unbiased news to all subscribers. Founded in August, 1947, PTI