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Describe the key objectives of the Press Commission of the year 1952.

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First Press CommissionThe first Press Commission was appointed in September 1952, under the chairmanship of JusticeG.S. Rajadhyaksha. The other 10 members included Dr C.P. Ramaswami Aiyar, Dr. Zakir Hussain, Dr. V.K.R.V. Rao, P.H. Patwardhan, J. Natarajan and Chalapathi Rau. The Commissionwhich submitted its report in 1954, made several important recommendations which helped inconstituting a number of institutions and organizing the profession of journalism in a systematicmanner. It was the first enquiry of its kind which delved into the working of the press and itsreport has been a kind of Bible for the Press hitherto.Some of the recommendations and observations of the First Press Commission are as follows:


To safeguard the freedom of the press and help the press to maintain its independence.


To censure objectionable types of journalistic conduct and by all other possible means to build up a code in accordance with the highest professional standards.


To keep under review any development likely to restrict the supply and dissemination of news of public interest and importance.


To encourage the growth of a sense of responsibility and public service among thoseengaged in the profession of journalism.


To study the developments in the press which may tend towards concentration or monopoly and if necessary, to suggest remedies.


To publish reports atleast once an year, recording its work and reviewing the performanceof the press, its developments and factors affecting them


To improve methods of recruitment, education and training for the profession by thecreation of suitable agencies for the purpose such as Press Institutes.


The news agencies should not merely keep themselves from bias and follow strictly the principles of integrity, objectivity and comprehensiveness in its coverage of news, but it shouldalso appear to the public that the news agencies are maintaining such a course.


The Commission found that the emoluments received by the journalists were on thewhole unsatisfactory and recommended the appointment of a Wage Board for the working journalists.


The Commission recommended the appointment of Registrar of Newspapers for India(RNI). As a result of this recommendation the office of RNI verifies and regulates theavailability of newspapers, registers them, containing detailed information on newspaper. Theoffice also issues entitlement certificates to the newspapers/periodicals for the import of news print and printing machinery and allied materials required by newspapers.Indian constitution
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