Commemorative bonanza

IN Media Watch Briefs | 17/08/2018

Around 1300 newspapers have benefitted from full page colour insertions by The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting commemorating former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee. Some also got a full page insertion from the govt of Rajasthan. DAVP also worked to ensure that the blog the PM had penned got published, reaching out to some 125 newspapers late in the evening. Most of them obliged.

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