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dated November 25, 1958: Indian news agencies

The Estimates Committee of the Lok Sabha has recommended that the Government’s decision on the establishment of offices abroad by Indian news agencies should be expedited. The report deals with the action taken by the Government on the recommendations contained in the 12th report of the Estimates Committee on All India Radio. The 12th report had recommended that if the Government was anxious to obtain foreign news written from an Indian angle, it would be better to think of this from a national viewpoint and encourage Indian news agencies to maintain Indian correspondents abroad. The news could be purchased by A.I.R. and even if it be at enhanced rates, it would only amount to a fraction of the cost A.I.R. would incur if it maintained correspondents abroad exclusively for itself. Besides, all the newspapers in the country would benefit from the news supplied by these various correspondents. The Government had replied that the question of encouraging Indian news agencies to establish offices abroad had been separately taken up by the Information and Broadcasting Ministry. Pending the establishment of such offices, it had been decided to try the experiment of maintaining one part-time correspondent in London, “which is the clearing house for news in the western world.”

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