Port Blair, April 01: The Secretary, Information & Publicity Division of the A&N Administration today called up the President, Andaman & Nicobar Media Federation to assure that the UT administration will extend full support for the smooth functioning of the media units in the islands. It may be recalled here that recently the Secretary, IP had met the media persons to understand the challenges faced by the private media in the islands.

The media persons had brought to his knowledge about the constraints like issuing of media pass to perform their duty without hindrances and release of government advertisements to the local media. The Secretary, IP told the President, ANMF that the has brought the issue before the knowledge of the Chief Secretary and the UT administration is working on measures to provide some relief to the media units by way of releasing advertisement. 

Since yesterday, the IP Division has started issuing media passes to the newspapers operating from the islands.