Executive approves monetary help to 67 households of reporters who died of Covid
The Union executive has licensed a suggestion to supply monetary help to households of 26 extra reporters who misplaced their lives to Covid-19 within the ongoing monetary yr, and dependents of every of those reporters gets monetary aid of Rs five lakh below the Journalist Welfare Scheme (JWS) of the Data and Broadcasting Ministry, the federal government stated in a commentary on Thursday.
The federal government has licensed the committee’s proposal “to supply monetary aid of Rs five lakh to every of the households of 26 reporters who died because of Covid-19” in 2021-22 monetary yr, starting April. Within the closing monetary yr, help was once given to households of 41 reporters, the commentary stated.
In a commentary, the federal government stated that households of 67 reporters had been given monetary help since closing yr.
The JWS committee, which is taking a look to supply help below a Central scheme to households of reporters who’ve died because of Covid-19, will meet weekly to procedure the circumstances expeditiously, it was once knowledgeable.
Resources stated that not like different schemes for reporters, a Press Data Bureau accreditation isn’t had to avail advantages below the JWS.
The commentary discussed that during a “suo motu transfer”, the I&B Ministry had “compiled and collated main points of reporters who misplaced their lives because of the pandemic in 2020 and 2021 and began a distinct pressure to supply help to their households below the Journalist Welfare Scheme”.
“The Press Data Bureau proactively reached out to the households of many reporters who misplaced their lives to Covid-19 and likewise guided them concerning the scheme and submitting of claims,” it mentioned. The committee has determined to carry JWS conferences each and every week “in order that packages for monetary help below JWS will also be processed expeditiously”, the federal government stated.
The committee, headed via I&B Secretary Amit Khare, additionally contains PIB primary director-general Jaideep Bhatnagar, at the side of different senior officers and media representatives.
