IFWJ plea to PM, Save the Media
The Indian Federation of Working Journalists today urged the Prime Minister to ensure that the sixth step of his “Saptapadi” (seven steps) is not retarded by profit-hungry media proprietors. In an appeal to Mr. Narendrabhai Modi, the IFWJ president, Mr. K. Vikram Rao, and his colleagues said that large-scale, retrenchments, lay-offs, wage cuts, suspensions, transfers and closures in the media world today wreck the Prime Minister’s hearty appeal (April 14) to owners to “Be compassionate towards employees. Don’t deprive them of livelihood.” Legitimately the working journalists and other employees find that Corona has hit the nation in virus form but to media persons in the human from. The IFWJ pointed to the Union Home Ministry’s order, issued under the Disaster Management Act, 2005, which says: “All the employers, be it in the industry or in the shops and commercial establishments, shall make payment of w...