Archive · 8 Oct 2026
Government Reconstitutes Press Council of India, Nominates 13 Members
The government has added 13 members to the Press Council of India.
Six of them are editors, and seven are working journalists who are not editors.
The government announced the nominations on Wednesday, October 7.
The council is an independent body created under a law passed in 1978.
Its job is to help protect the freedom of the press.
It also works to improve the standards of newspapers and news agencies.
The article says the council is headed by retired Justice Ranjana Prakash Desai.
The government reconstituted the Press Council of India on Wednesday, October 7.
It nominated 13 members: six in the editors category and seven other working journalists.
The six editors nominated are Pradeep Kumar Jain, Sayed Raza Husain Rizvi, Ankur Dua, Aparna Shukla, Raj Parwana/Narender Singh, and Vinod Bajpai.
The seven other working journalists nominated are Vinod Kohli, Geetartha Pathak, Prajnananda Chaudhuri, Kingshuk Pramanik, C K Nayak, Prasanna Kumar Mohanty, and Bijoy Kakchingtabam.
The council is a statutory autonomous body established to preserve press freedom and improve newspaper and news-agency standards.
- Who
- The Central Government and 13 newly nominated Press Council of India members.
- What
- The government reconstituted the Press Council of India by nominating six editors and seven other working journalists.
- When
- Wednesday, October 7; the article does not specify the year.
- Where
- New Delhi.
- Why
- The article reports the reconstitution but does not specify why these nominations were made. It says the council's purposes include preserving press freedom and improving newspaper and news-agency standards.
- New members
- 13
- Editors nominated
- 6
- Other working journalists nominated
- 7
- Council head
- Justice Ranjana Prakash Desai (retd)
- Establishing law
- Press Council Act, 1978
- Council's stated purpose
- Preserve press freedom and improve standards of newspapers and news agencies