{"id":187172,"date":"2022-03-25T00:29:04","date_gmt":"2022-03-24T18:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=187172"},"modified":"2022-03-25T00:29:04","modified_gmt":"2022-03-24T18:59:04","slug":"pension-scheme-for-scribes-in-offing-mizoram-cm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2022\/03\/25\/pension-scheme-for-scribes-in-offing-mizoram-cm\/","title":{"rendered":"Pension scheme for scribes in offing: Mizoram CM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Aizawl, Mar 24 (PTI) Mizoram Chief Minister Zoramthanga has said his government is taking several steps to promote and assist journalists in the state, and will soon introduce a pension scheme for scribes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hailing journalists for their role in shaping public opinion, he said they have an important responsibility to promote and safeguard the reputation of Mizoram.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Our government gives priority to the welfare of journalists and would soon introduce a pension scheme to benefit them. It is currently under process,&#8221; Zoramthanga said at an event to mark the golden jubilee of the Mizoram Journalists&#8217; Association (MJA).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Governor Hari Babu Kambhampati also congratulated the 193-member MJA for completing 50 years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The MJA continues to deliver balanced local and national news at a time when news and comments are challenged, which in turn makes community leaders and members evaluate and reassess their positions,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Benefits extended to scribes by most states are in accordance with the definition of working journalists as per the Working Journalists &amp; Other Newspaper Employees (Conditions of Service) &amp; Miscellaneous Provisions Act.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aizawl, Mar 24 (PTI) Mizoram Chief Minister Zoramthanga has said his government is taking several steps to promote and assist journalists in the state, and will soon introduce a pension scheme for scribes. Hailing journalists for their role in shaping public opinion, he said they have an important responsibility to promote and safeguard the reputation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-187172","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-north-east"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}