PMO did not grant nod for PM’s photos in Jio ads: Rathore
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One of the reasons behind the decreasing trend in the cold waves, it pointed, is the global warming. However, the ocean conditions over the equatorial Indian and Pacific oceans also contribute to the year-to-year variability of cold waves over the country.
On an average, about 780 deaths, particularly of homeless people, are recorded due to cold waves each year. Several deaths were also reported in North India during the 2015-16 winter season.
This is for the first time that the IMD has released a winter forecast. Earlier this year, it had also come up with a forecast of “above normal” summer. NEW DELHI: The Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) did not grant permission to use the photographs of PM Narendra Modi in print and electronic advertisements of the Reliance Jio, Parliament was informed.
Minister of state for information and broadcasting Rajyavardhan Rathore told Rajya Sabha in a written reply that the “government was aware,” that the PM”s pictures were used by Reliance. Rathore’s reply was in response to a question by Samajwadi Party MP Neeraj Shekhar.
Rathore told Parliament that the Directorate of Advertising and Visual Publicity (DAVP), a media unit of ministry, is the nodal agency for release of advertisement on the policies and programme of the government in various media vehicles, but “releases government advertisements only and does not release advertisements of any private body”.
On what action is being taken against Jio, if permission was not taken in advance, Rathore replied that the necessary act, the Emblems and Names (prevention of improper use) Act 1950, is administered by the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution.