It is stressed that India, being the largest democracy in the world, continues to maintain the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting as a subject of the Union Government in New Delhi. The Indian Information Ministry has 24 departments, organizations and functionaries to administer.
Relationship between Government and Media in India

New and alternative names for Ministry of Information and Broadcasting
The Commission recommends that in order to reflect a re-structured Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, new and alternative names are also considered for this Ministry. (i) The traditional association of the title : “Ministry of Information and Broadcasting” with the production of propaganda for the Government of-the-day is so strongly identified with a one-sided, power-centric […]
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Substantive reform of Federal and Provincial Information Ministries
The Commission concludes that the Federal Ministry of Information and Broadcasting and the four Provincial Departments of Information require substantive re-structuring by which:- i. certain departments and functions should be either abolished, or significantly reformed, in order to ensure that the continued functioning of this institutional framework does not impede or obstruct the fulfilment of […]
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Converged a wide range of Media and Systems
The unprecedented relationship between information and the people symbolized by the emergence of the cell-phone as a compact hand-held device have converged a wide range of media and systems. These include the telephone, the camera, the computer, the satellite, the internet, battery-powered illumination, email, cinema, TV, radio, newspapers, magazines, books, social media such as Twitter, […]
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