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PM LAYS FOUNDATION STONE OF NATIONAL PRESS CENTRE
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New Delhi - December 5, 2001
The Prime Minister Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee laid the foundation stone of National Press Centre here today. Proposed to be constructed over a plot of two acres on Raisina Road the project is estimated to cost about Rs. 30 crores.
The Home Minister Shri Lal Krishan Advani presided. The Information and Broadcasting Minister Smt. Sushma Swaraj Urban Development and Poverty Alleviation Minister - Shri Ananth Kumar and Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting, Shri Ramesh Bais performed `Bhoomi Pujan' before the Prime Minister laid the foundation stone.
Several Union Ministers Members of Parliament senior Editors and a large number of media representatives were present on the occasion.
The Minister of Information and Broadcasting Smt. Sushma Swaraj in her address said that the National Press Centre will have all the modern facilities to cater to the needs of the mediapersons and would complete with the best of such centres in the world. She expressed her gratitude to the Prime Minister for laying the foundation stone and blessing the project. She also thanked the Home Minister Shri Advani for his support Shri Ananth Kumar for his personal interest and expediting the allotment of the plot and the Minister for State for agriculture Shri Shripad Yesso Naik for very readily agreeing to vacate the house for the proposed project. The Urban Development and Poverty Alleviation Minister Shri Ananth Kumar said that the proposed National Press Centre is a new millennium gift to the mediapersons from the Prime Minister. The construction would start in right earnest and be completed in 18 months he said.
The Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting Shri Ramesh Bais welcomed the guests. The Press Information Bureau the nodal central government agency to disseminate information and presently functioning from Shastri Bhawan has been finding it difficult to meet the functional requirements of the media which have multiplied manifold both quantitatively and qualitatively. The revolution in the field of electronic media and information technology during the last five years has added new dimensions to both the news gathering and news dissemination fields. The proposed National Press Centre seeks to provide under one roof a platform for Indian and foreign journalists (visiting and Delhi based) as a news source as well as a dissemination and service centre for providing professional in-puts. It will have a Press Conference Hall with live telecast and online facilities, briefing and discussion rooms, audio-video recording studios, editing services, video conferencing, facilities, workrooms with internet enabled , workstations, film auditorium equipped for post-screening, question-answer sessions, computerized library and research facilities, archives, a most modern, telecommunication centre, distribution outlets and air and rail reservation facilities, booking of telecom services like uplinking and transmission.
The Centre will have a large lounge with TV screens restaurants/cafeteria, events merchandising and a Bank. A first-aid-post and Stress Management and Fitness Centre may also be added to the Complex. It may include facilities for professional pursuits like training and seminar workshops for reporters, luncheon, discussions, webcast and satellite booking facilities, photo transmission, audio-video clipping service, job listings, online press conferencing, telephone bookings of video and audio and transcripts. The dissemination nucleus of Press Information Bureau would be available for meeting the professional needs of the mediapersons.
Situated in the centre of the Capital with proximity of the National Press Centre to the Central Secretariat, Parliament, Rashtriapati Bhawan
media organizations like PTI, UNI, AIR, Doordarshan, INS, Press Club of India, Foreign Correspondents Club, Women Press Corps and several national dailies it is likely to become a vibrant hub of media activities in this part of the world.
Press Release by: PIB - GSR/HCK/AS
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