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`Wage board issue will be taken up'

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HYDERABAD: Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy has assured the Confederation of Newspaper & News Agency Employees' Organisations that he would take up the issue of constitution of a wage board for working and non-working journalists with the Central Government.

Participating in the valedictory of the second annual meeting of the confederation here on Sunday, he said he would "do every thing possible" to ensure that the wage board was constituted soon. "Union Labour Minister Oscar Fernandes has already assured that the Government is seized of the matter," he said.

He expressed concern over problems faced by working journalists and stringers in particular. He said freedom of press had turned into "freedom of managements" and the Government too was facing problems with it.

Earlier, newspaper and news agency employees unions' representatives including Suresh Akhauri, M.S. Yadav and K. Srinivas Reddy expressed concern over the delay in constitution of the wage board. The contract system was threatening freedom of press, they said.

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