{"id":276657,"date":"2026-01-19T00:18:43","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T18:48:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=276657"},"modified":"2026-01-19T00:18:43","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T18:48:43","slug":"media-bodies-seek-new-pci-chairperson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2026\/01\/19\/media-bodies-seek-new-pci-chairperson\/","title":{"rendered":"Media bodies seek new PCI chairperson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>NEW DELHI, 18 Jan:<\/strong> Media associations on Sunday urged the government to appoint a new chairperson to the Press Council of India (PCI) as the post fell vacant after Justice Ranjana Prakash Desai completed her tenure last month.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The PCI, a statutory, quasi-judicial body to safeguard press freedom, has been without a chairperson for the first time in its history, the Press Association and journalists&#8217; bodies of Mumbai, Assam, West Bengal, Odisha and Chandigarh-Punjab said in a joint statement here.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The term of the 14th council ended more than a year ago, but the full 15th council is yet to be formed, and the post of chairman has not been filled, while the last chairman&#8217;s three-year extended term ended in December,&#8221; the statement said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Justice Desai, who has been appointed as chairperson of the Eighth Pay Commission, completed her tenure as Press Council of India chairperson on 16 December.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The media bodies said the 15th Press Council of India is yet to be constituted completely, as appointments in the categories of editors and working journalists are still awaited.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Press Council of India comprises 29 members, including the chairman, and has a tenure of three years. Currently, 14 people &#8211; five MPs, three nominees and six in the category of owners and management &#8211; have been appointed to the council.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the absence of a chairperson, the process of the constitution of the council cannot proceed further.(PTI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI, 18 Jan: Media associations on Sunday urged the government to appoint a new chairperson to the Press Council of India (PCI) as the post fell vacant after Justice Ranjana Prakash Desai completed her tenure last month. The PCI, a statutory, quasi-judicial body to safeguard press freedom, has been without a chairperson for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-276657","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-national","7":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276657","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=276657"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":276662,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276657\/revisions\/276662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}