PRESS COUNCIL OF INDIA
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Context - Justice Ranjana Prakash Desai has been selected as the Chairperson of the Press Council of India.
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- A Selection Committee headed by Vice President M. Venkaiah Naidu, Lok Sabha Speaker and Press Council member has approved the appointment of a former judge of the Supreme Court ‘Justice Ranjana Prakash Desai’ as the Chairperson of the Press Council of India (PCI).
- Justice Desai had recently headed the Jammu and Kashmir Delimitation Commission to redraw the Assembly constituencies.
Press Council of India
- The Press Council of India was established by the Parliament in 1966.
- It was established on the recommendations of the First Press Commission.
- The main objective of the council is to maintain the freedom of the press and improving the standards of the press in India.
- It is the self-regulatory body under the Press Council Act of 1978.
- Traditionally, a retired Supreme Court judge is appointed as the Chairman of the Council.
- There are 28 additional members in the council;
- 20 members of media, nominated by the newspapers, television channels and other media platforms operating in India.
- 5 members from the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha.
- 3 members as nominees of Sahitya Academy, University Grant Commission and Bar Council of India.
- The Council accepts complaints against matters related to journalists or media organizations’.
- The Council can investigate and issue a report.
- It also can "warn, criticize, or censure" those it finds at fault, but the council has no powers to enforce or impose any penalty on individual journalists and media publications.
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