October 6th 2023.
Raipur: On Friday, the Chhattisgarh Government appointed Dinesh Kumar Shrivastava, a retired Indian Administrative Service officer, as the chairman of the ‘Chhattisgarh Media Freedom, Protection, and Promotion Committee’. The committee has been constituted under the Chhattisgarh Protection of Media Persons Act, 2023 as per an order issued by the Public Relations Department, Mantralaya Mahanadi Bhawan in Nava Raipur, Atal Nagar.
The order detailed the members of the committee which include Pushpa Rokade, a correspondent at Prakhar Samachar in Bijapur, Diwakar Muktibodh, a senior Raipur journalist, Nathmal Sharma, Editor-in-Chief of Evening Times, Bilaspur, and a director-level representative from the Director of Public Prosecutions. In addition, the committee will have an Additional Director-level officer nominated by the Commissioner/Director of Public Relations as its member-secretary.
This appointment comes amidst the recent controversy surrounding the appointment of Dr Praveen Verma as the new acting chairman of the Chhattisgarh Public Service Commission (CGPSC). Dr. Verma was appointed as the new acting chairman to replace the previous chairman, Rajnish Sharma, who was removed from the post by the state government.
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