Sunday, December 22, 2019

Huge amount Paid to Media for Govt. sponsored advertisement


Huge amount Paid  to Media  for Govt. sponsored  advertisement
( Exposed  under RTI )

·         In 2018-19, the year  of General Election,  Govt. of Odisha  has spent  Rs. 225 crore  for  publication of advertisement  in Print and Electronic Media which  is 6  times higher  of previous year ( Rs. 41 crore)  .
·         The State  Govt. has  deliberately kept budget  for advertisement ( 2018-19) on higher side  to gain chief popularity and woo voters  by  using media  through  paid advertisement.  Nabin Patnaik Govt. succeeded  in winning election  through media propaganda.
·         As  the election  got over, the State  Govt. drastically  reduced  budgetary provision for media advertisement  limiting to just Rs. 36 crore in 2019-20 .
·         In 2019-20, Samaj  has been given  Rs. 21 crore ( 60% of the total budget  for media)  highest in comparison to both print  and electronic media , the reason is best  known to Govt.
·         There  is some  mismatch of data provided  by PIO. While  the  total budget expenditure  for advertisement  in Electronic media is  Rs. 126 crore in 2018-19( Table-1),  But   the list of Electronics media  given  money  for advertisement  shows  disbursement  of Rs. 62 crore. This  discrepancy needs to  be cross-checked.
·         In 2018-19, Zee Odisha  was given Rs. 11 crore  towards advertisement  which  is highest  payments among all electronics media. Reason may  be its  one-sided campaign  to glorify  Sri  Nabin Patnaik across the state.

Dear  friends
To give better  clarity  to readers how  this Govt.  survives on systematic managed media propaganda glorifying Nabin Patnaik, Chief Minister , Odisha  and highlighting his  scheme and programme  like Kalia Yojana, Biju Swasthya Kalyan Yojana, PEETHA Yojana, Biju BAHINI, Biju Pucca Gruha Yojana (  all Fake  and false schemes), RTI Application was  filed  to the PIO, Dept. of Information and Public Relation seeking  details  of budget  and expenditure for advertisement published  in media  of three  years . The objective  was  to give  3 years  analysis  of budgetary allocation and expenses  for advertisement. Forget  whether  the state  or  the people  has been  benefitted, but Media   house been greatly benefitted by Govt. sponsored media  campaign  about  Nabin patnaik Govt. which  has  misled  the people  to some extent.  The  Details of  information provided  by the PIO dated 19.12.19 is as follows.


Table-1
Total Budget  earmarked  by Govt. of Odisha for advertisement  of Govt. programme
                                                                                                                        ( In lakhs)

Budget Provision
2017-18
Expenditure
2017-18
Budget Provision
2018-19
Expenditure
2018-19
Budget Provision
2019-20
Expenditure
2019-20 ( as on 31.10.19 
Advertisement
Electronics Media
11,97,00
11,68,74
100,00,00
99,75,88
11,28,00
9,33,21
Advertisement
Print Media 
30,97,58
30,06,58
126,85,00
126,13,25
25,00,00
14,80,42
Total
42,94,58
41,75,32
226,85,00
225,89,13
36,28,00
24,13,63

Table -2
Major advertisement  support  given to Print Media
                                                                                                            ( In Rs. )
Year
Dharitri
Prameya
Samaj
Sambad
2017-18
1,71,97,353.00
98,41,328.00
1,66,60,172.00
2,33,43,568.00
2018-19
4,57,72,772.00
4,46,40,507.00
4,94,73,769.00
5,90,83,354.00
2019-20 ( Till Nov.)
3,08,11,768.00
2,87,76,460.00
21,96,26,313.00
3,49,13,828.00
Total
9,37,81,893.00
8,32,58,295.00
28,57,60,254.00
11,73,40,750.00
Grand Total
58,01,41,192.00


Table-3
Details  of fund  disbursed  to Electronics Media for telecast of  different Govt. programme  by  Govt. of Odisha
                                                            ( Amount in Rs.)
Sl.No
Name of the Electronics  Media
2017-18
2018-19
2019-20
Dec.15
1
O TV
87,23,025.00


2
Kanak TV
66,06,350.00
5,17,90,885.00
92,89,716.00
3
News 7
68,89,561.00
5,15,69,198.00
1,13,45,550.00
4
Kalinga TV
65,33,243.00
6,18,36,815.00
1,22,73,541.00
5
MBC TV
59,19,349.00
5,73,66,810.00
97,79,477.00
6
ETV News Odisha /
News 18 Odia
66,71,954.00
4,67,24,173.00
1,10,32,626.00
7
News World Odisha
70,53,139.00
5,73,70,354.00
1,30,93,924.00
8
Kamayab TV
55,44,402.00
71,90,363.00

9
Zee Kalinga TV /Z Odisha
53,38,770.00
11,06,05,776.00
70,02,359.00
10
Naxatra TV
71,85,743.00
77,14,729.00

11
DDK
43,06,250.00
1,24,61,429.00
79,94,517.00
12
Sarthak
70,42,907.00
2,96,18,839.00
19,24,167.00
13
Colors Odia
26,78,116.00
2,14,19,657.00
18,41,826.00
14
India TV
8,42,697.00


15
Aaj Tak
13,80,600.00
30,50,890.00
7,36,320.00
16
Times Now
14,01,840.00
1,87,65,540.00
8,09,952.00
17
AIR, CTC
62,07,292.00
2,70,23,679.00
40,52,773.00
18
Radio Chocolate
5,29,962.00
12,19,177.00
1,57,884.00
19
BIG FM
5,25,170.00
12,31,124.00
2,88,156.00
20
Red FM
4,91,689.00
10,05,519.00
2,64,154.00
21
Vodafone
50,39,594.00


22
Tarang TV

44,30,436.00

23
Alankar TV

19,57,971.00

24
Sadhana TV

3,35,100.00

25
Prathana TV

14,44,724.00

26
NDTV

3,36,98,735.00
2,62,668.00
27
CNN News 18

44,66,300.00
4,24,800.00
28
India Today

19,81,220.00
6,44,280.00
29
News X

9,79,400.00

30
ABP News

43,89,600.00

31
Zee News

3,11,520.00

32
News 18 India

29,50,000.00

33
NDTV India

15,72,468.00
1,01,704.00


9,69,11,653.00
62,64,82,431.00
9,33,20,394.00

Pradip Pradhan
M-9937843482
Date-21.12.19

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