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No proir okay for foreigners/NRIs in India editions
 

Indiantelevision.com Team

(17 April 2007 8:00 pm)

 

NEW DELHI: Publishers of Indian editions or facsimile editions of foreign newspapers can now employ foreigners or non-resident Indians without prior permission of the Information and Broadcasting Ministry.

However, the amended guidelines for publication of newspapers and periodicals dealing with news and current affairs and publication of facsimile editions of foreign newspapers state that information will have to be given about any persons being employed for more than sixty days in a year.

Furthermore, the services of any persons who have not got security clearance will have to be dispensed with.

The amended Clause 4(iv) pertaining to basic conditions/obligations of the guidelines now reads “the entity shall be liable to intimate the names and details of any foreigners/NRIs proposed to be employed/engaged in the entity either as consultant (or in any other capacity) for more than 60 days in a year, or, as regular employees. The entity shall be liable to dispense with the services of such persons if not found security cleared subsequently.”

The provisions until now was that “all entities shall obtain prior clearance of the Ministry of Information & Broadcasting of any foreigners/NRIs proposed to be employed/engaged in the new entity either as consultants (or in any other capacity) for more than 60 days in a year, or, as regular employees.”

 
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