Saturday 19 July 2014

CQ- Javadekar says no plans to reduce DAVP allocations

The Union government has denied that there is any move to drastically cut the budget of the Directorate of Advertising and Visual Publicity (DAVP).
Information and Broadcasting Minister Prakash Javadekar said on 19 July that the publicity budget of DAVP has shown an increasing trend since 2009-10 onwards. While the actual plan and non-plan DAVP expenditure for 2010-11 was Rs 90.92 crore.  It was Rs 127.72 crore in 2011-12, Rs139.75 crore in 2012-13, and Rs 222.47 crore in 2013-14.
The allocation of budget for advertisement and publicity of the schemes, programmes of an individual Ministry or department is allotted by Planning Commission and Ministry of Finance, the minister told Parliament. Javadekar said the I&B Ministry cannot put any embargo on Ministries, Departments, Autonomous Bodies and Constitutional Bodies resorting to advertising.

Source: http://cablequest.org/news/national-news/item/5530-cq-javadekar-says-no-plans-to-reduce-davp-allocations.html

Source: http://cablequest.org/news/national-news/item/5530-cq-javadekar-says-no-plans-to-reduce-davp-allocations.html

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