Inter-Ministerial Task Force studying education in media related courses

NEW DELHI: An Inter-Ministerial Task Force on Education in Media related courses has been constituted by the Human Resource Development Ministry for the studying the feasibility of a communication university.

Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting Rajyavardhan Rathore informed the Parliament that this force has representatives from the concerned Ministries and regulators as also persons of repute and eminence from the fields of cinema, TV, print media, theatre and performing arts.

While there is no proposal at present to set up a communication university, he said that there has been a demand from certain sections of media that a communication university be set up to meet the growing demands of all types of communication systems. 

In order to discuss the feasibility of setting up such type of institution along with its proposed structure and mechanism, the I&B Ministry has initiated the process to hold the consultations with various stakeholders.