Sindh Minister for Information and Labour Saeed Ghani while addressing the Sindh Assembly on Tuesday said that the government advertisements would be given for publications only to those which were registered in media list of the Information Department.
Other than authentic registration, the publication must be regular, he said. Saeed Ghani said that circulation size of the publication was not a condition for any publication to be given government advertisements. The minister said that in total there were 734 publications from Sindh that included daily, weekly, fortnightly and monthly. The number of publications which publish daily was 413, he said. He said that the government always wanted to support financially the lowly circulated publications and this practice would continue in future as well.
Saeed Ghani said that at present the affairs of the Sindh Information Department were being run following the Act of 2002 but after the passage of 18th amendment new law and policies could be formulated. The working in this regard had already been initiated last year but owning to the reservations expressed by few of the journalists’ associations a committee had been formed to address there genuine reservations, he added. He said that after the satisfaction of every stakeholder the draft of new law would be presented before the provincial assembly. The minister said that unlike any other province of the country to preserve historical documents advance state of at art technology equipment were being used in the Archives wing of the information department.
