Fwd: Releases.........pt4

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From: Press Information Bureau Ministry of I&B <pib.kolkata@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 3:28 PM
Subject: Releases.........pt4



Press Information Bureau
Government of India
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Ministry of Law & Justice
Transfer of Orissa High Court Judge
New Delhi: March 25, 2010

In exercise of the powers conferred by clause (1) of article 222 of
the Constitution of India, the President, after consultation with the
Chief Justice of India, is pleased to transfer Shri Justice Ishrat
Masroor Quddusi, Judge of the Orissa High Court, as a Judge of the
Chhattisgarh High Court and to direct him to assume charge of his
office in the Chhattisgarh High Court on or before 5th April,2010.

vlk/ska/dk/kol/15:22 hrs.

Press Information Bureau
Government of India
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Ministry of Law & Justice
Chief Justice of Orissa High Court appointed
New Delhi: March 25, 2010

In exercise of the powers conferred by clause (1) of article 217 of
the Constitution of India, the President is pleased to appoint Shri
Justice Venkategowda Gopalagowda, Judge of the Karnataka High Court,
to be the Chief Justice of the Orissa High Court with effect from the
date he assumes charge of his office.

vlk/ska/dk/kol/15:23 hrs.

Press Information Bureau
Government of India
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Ministry of Information & Broadcasting
India becomes first developing country to assume Chairmanship of IPDC
New Delhi: March 25, 2010

Shri Raghu Menon, Secretary, Ministry of Information & Broadcasting,
Government of India was elected as Chairman of the Inter-Governmental
Council of the International Programme for Development of
Communication (IPDC). This is for the first time in the history of
IPDC that a developing country will be in the chair of the
Inter-Governmental Council of the IPDC. Since its inception, the
Chairmanship had always remained with developed countries. The
candidature of the India, endorsed by Asia Pacific Regional Group and
supported by countries from Africa, Arab and Lain American Region, won
the election with 23 out of 37 votes against Switzerland who got 14
votes.
The Inter-Governmental Council of the IPDC was established in 1980 and
implements national, regional and inter-regional projects in the areas
of promotion of freedom of expression and media pluralism, development
of community media, capacity building and promotion of international
partnership.
In his acceptance speech, Shri Raghu Menon thanked the members of the
Inter-Governmental Council for reposing faith in his leadership and
assured his full commitment for strengthening programme implementation
under IPDC's mandates. Apart from media development as a vehicle for
fostering good governance, democracy and transparency, he also
highlighted the need for media to be inclusive so as to ensure spread,
reach and coverage of media accessibility to all the citizens.
Inclusiveness would result in bridging the urban rural divide,
reaching economically under-privileged sections of the society and to
make full use of the technological advance to provide access to
information at affordable costs. Shri Menon underlined the spin-off
effect of the projects under implementation by IPDC in influencing
policy formulation by Member States and underlined the importance of
greater generation of resources for IPDC.
India has contributed US $ 1.4 million to IPDC Programme since its
inception and is strongly committed to the Fund and its programmes.
India will be Chair of the Inter-Governmental Council of IPDC till its
next Session in 2012.

rs/as/dk/kol/15:23 hrs.

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