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DELHI: The Wage Boards for Working Journalists and Non-working Journalists of
newspapers and news agencies, for which notifications have been issued with effect
from 24 May, have been asked to submit their report within the stipulated period
of three years. These
Wage Boards have been constituted for the purpose of fixing or revising rates
of wages of working journalists and newspaper employees and non-journalists newspapers
employees in accordance with the provisions of the Working Journalists and Other
Newspaper Employees (Conditions of service) and Miscellaneous Provisions Act,
1955. The
headquarters of the Wage Board will be New Delhi, according to an announcement
here this evening. Both
the Wage Boards will have 10 members each headed by Dr. Justice K. Narayana Kurup,
a former Judge of Kerala High Court who has also served as Acting Chief Justice
of Madras High Court. According to the notification, former Labour and Employment
Secretary K M Sahni would be member secretary for both the Boards. The
other independent members common to both the Boards are B. P. Singh and P. N.
Prasanna Kumar. Naresh Mohan (Indian Newspaper Society), Gurinder Singh (All India
Small and Medium Newspapers Federation), and Prataprai Tarachand Shah (Indian
Language Newspaper Association) will be representing employers on both the Wage
Boards. K.
Vikram Rao (Indian Federation of Working Journalists), Nand Kishore Trikha (National
Union of Journalists - India) and Suresh Akhouri (Indian Journalists Union) will
represent the Working Journalists on the Wage Board for Working Journalists. Madan
Phadnis (All India Newspaper Employees Federation), Uma Shankar Mishra (National
Federation of Newspaper Employees) and M. S. Yadav (Press Trust of India) will
represent non-journalists on the Wage Boards for Non-Working Journalists. | 
