{"id":196026,"date":"2022-07-22T00:13:40","date_gmt":"2022-07-21T18:43:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=196026"},"modified":"2022-07-22T00:13:40","modified_gmt":"2022-07-21T18:43:40","slug":"govt-spent-rs-911-17-cr-on-advertisements-over-last-3-yrs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2022\/07\/22\/govt-spent-rs-911-17-cr-on-advertisements-over-last-3-yrs\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt spent Rs 911.17 cr on advertisements over last 3 yrs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>NEW DELHI, 21 Jul:<\/strong> The government spent Rs 911.17 crore on advertisements in newspapers, television channels and web portals in the past three years, Information &amp; Broadcasting Minister Anurag Thakur told the Rajya Sabha on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The advertisements were paid for by the Central Bureau of Communications from the financial year 2019-20 till June 2022, he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The government spent Rs 295.05 crore on advertisements in 5,326 newspapers in 2019-20, Rs 197.49 crore in 5,210 newspapers in 2020-21, Rs 179.04 crore in 6,224 newspapers in 2021-22, and Rs 19.25 crore in 1,529 newspapers in 2022-23 (till June), Thakur said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">During the same period, the government spent Rs 98.69 crore on advertisements in 270 television (TV) channels in 2019-20, Rs 69.81 crore in 318 TV channels in 2020-21, Rs 29.3 crore in 265 news channels in 2021-22 and Rs 1.96 crore in 99 TV channels in 2022-23 (till June), Thakur said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On web portals, the government&#8217;s spending on advertisements was Rs 9.35 crore on 54 websites in 2019-20, Rs 7.43 crore on 72 websites in 2020-21, Rs 1.83 crore on 18 websites in 2021-22 and Rs 1.97 crore on 30 websites in 2022-23 (till June 2022), the minister said in response to a question by Congress member Digvijaya Singh. (PTI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI, 21 Jul: The government spent Rs 911.17 crore on advertisements in newspapers, television channels and web portals in the past three years, Information &amp; Broadcasting Minister Anurag Thakur told the Rajya Sabha on Thursday. The advertisements were paid for by the Central Bureau of Communications from the financial year 2019-20 till June 2022, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-196026","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-national"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196026","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=196026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196026\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}