Petitioning the new CM

BY snqw| IN Media Watch Briefs | 01/11/2014

â€‹The first petition, albeit orally but on live television, that Maharashtra's new CM Devendra Fadnavis received was from journalists covering the state government: 1) Quickly enact a law to prevent attacks on media; 2) Extend health care assistance of Rs 1 lakh available to each accredited journalists and to the non-accredited as well, and 3) set up a pension scheme. Fadnavis visited the pressroom soon after his cabinet meeting as is the tradition. He also promised to resume post-cabinet briefings, to be 'more open': "No doubt you get your news even without it, but it carries the bias of the leaker".

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