Govt to send concept paper to SIC for Saarc news agency
The government will send the project concept paper (PCP) to Saarc Information Centre (SIC) for establishing a permanent Saarc news agency.
The decision was taken at an inter-ministerial meeting at the Secretariat on Tuesday with Information Secretary Hedayetullah Al Mamoon in the chair.
The meeting formed a four-member committee, headed by BSS Chief Editor and Managing Director Ihsanul Karim, to scrutinise the PCP prepared by BSS City Editor Ajit Kumar Sarkar.
Other members are Director General (DG) of Press Institute of Bangladesh Dulal Chandra Biswas, BTV DG M Hamid and Ajit Kumar Sarkar.
The committee was asked to submit the PCP after scrutiny within the shortest possible time to make the news agency viable.
DG (Saarc and Bimstec) of Foreign Ministry Masud Mahmud Khandaker, Chief Information Officer of Press Information Department Aminul Islam and DG of Bangladesh Betar Akhter Ahmed Khan also attended the meeting.
The draft project concept paper on establishing Saarc News Agency was incorporated in the resolution of the 8th Governing Board of SIC held in Nepal on September 25-26 this year. Earlier in July, SIC in a letter to BSS City Editor Ajit Kumar Sarkar requested for the concept paper as per his proposal on setting up the news agency placed at a seminar in Paro of Bhutan in May.
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