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JAMMU: Minister for Information, Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs, Chowdhary Zulfkar Ali launched the news portal and mobile application of the Department of Information and Public Relations (DIPR) here on Friday.
The web portal shall disseminate information to the readers on a real time basis hosting information in three languages – Urdu, Hindi and English besides photo and videos gallery of important official events and programmes.
“In this modern era, web portal and mobile app are a step towards technological advancement in information and development journalism,” the Minister said. “It will strike a better connect between government and people and will cater to a wider audience thereby giving an increased coverage,” he added.
The web portal is available on www.jkinfonews.com and mobile application can be downloaded from Google play store as ‘jkinfo news’.
Earlier, the minister also convened a high level meeting of officers of Information Department to review the functioning of the department in Jammu province.
Secretary Information, M.H Malik, Director Information, Muneer-ul-Islam, Additional Secretary Information, R.K Katoch, Joint Director Information Jammu, Manisha Sarin, Deputy Director (HQ), Priyanka Bhat, Deputy Director (PR), Avleen Kour, Information Officers, District Information Officers from Jammu division and other officers of the department were present in the meeting.
Zulfkar Ali while speaking at the meeting reiterated the commitment for revitalizing and diversifying the activities of the Information Department. He urged upon the officers to fully utilize their potential and pro actively perform multifaceted functions of news dissemination, organizing awareness generation programmes and publicizing developmental success stories.
The minister informed that the department has taken a series of steps for enhancing efficiency of various processes, including the recently notified Accreditation Rules, empanelment of 99 newspapers, periodicals and magazines.
