(Siasat News)Mr. Mirza Farooq Baig, General Secretary of National Social Justice Front welcomed the announcement of Prof. S. A. Shukoor, Secretary of Urdu Academy for providing financial assistance to small Urdu newspapers.
Inviting the attention of Prof. S. A. Shukoor, towards the stringent conditions for giving grants to Urdu newspapers, he requested him to drop the conditions such as production of I.T. returns, accreditation cards etc.
He pointed out that even DAVP doesn’t impose such conditions for releasing advertisements. Such conditions come in the way of getting benefits out of this scheme. He also requested the Secretary, Urdu Academy to extend the date of submission of application up to 15th August 2012. He demanded that at least Rs. 25,000 should be given as grant to each newspaper.
—-Siasat News