Eligible scribes will get accreditation cards: Allam Narayana

Hyderabad: Media Academy Chairman Allam Narayana today said that the government will give accreditation cards to all eligible journalists. He chaired a meeting of accreditation committee with officials here.

On the occasion he said that the committee approved about 80 per cent cards for a total of about 17000 journalists applied online for the accreditation cards. The cards will be issued to be effective from Oct this year to Sept 2021, Narayana informed.

He appealed that the journalists can apply online to get the same if they did not apply which is a continuous process. Second meeting will be held in September he said and promised that all the eligible journalists will get their accreditation cards. A helpline will be effective for the scribes and the meeting decided to consider videographer as video journalist and photographer as photo journalist here after.