Date:02/05/2004 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2004/05/02/stories/2004050211200500.htm

Andhra Pradesh

Government to extend support to Press Academy

By Our Staff Reporter

HYDERABAD, MAY 1. The Government would extend support to the State Press Academy to extend its sphere of activities related to media, said the Minister for Roads and Buildings T. Nageswara Rao, here on Friday.

Addressing the fourth governing council meeting of the Press Academy, he said that the newspapers played a pivotal role in shaping public life in a democratic country.

The Minister for Employment Generation, B. Gopalakrishna Reddy, hoped that the Academy would transform into a premier training and research institute in the State.

The Academy chairman, I. Venkata Rao, who presided explained about various programmes taken up by the Academy in the last two years and thanked Mr. Nageswara Rao for the early completion of the new premises of the Academy.

Senior journalists, Potturi Venkateswara Rao, R.J. Rajendra Prasad and D. Amar, spoke.