Cong. manifesto sop for Assam scribes

GUWAHATI, APRIL 27. The Congress in Assam has a sop for journalists in its election manifesto released at the party headquarters here today by the APCC president, Mr. Tarun Gogoi.

The party said a high-power committee would be constituted if the congress was voted to power for going into the issues and problems concerning scribes and non-journalist employees of the newspaper industry.

It promised accommodation at the Assam Bhavan in New Delhi and Kolkata besides circuit houses in the State to government- accredited journalists, editors and sub-editors at concessional rates.

The journalists would be provided health care in the medical college and other government hospitals in the State at government rate.

The encroachers of the journalists colony in Guwahati would be evicted and land would be allotted for a new colony for them in the city suburbs.

Housing loans from the Assam Housing Board on easy installment for journalists would be considered, the manifesto added.

- PTI

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