EDUCATION AND CULTURE

directorate of PUBLICITY

District Publicity Officer.

The Directorate of Publicity has a Publicity Officer for the district with headquarters at Sangli. He gives wide publicity to the developmental activities and schemes undertaken by the Stale Government.

The media of documentary films, newspapers, booklets, periodicals and other visual aids are used for the purpose of educating the people. The District Publicity Officer issues news items and feature articles to the local newspapers of the district. The District Publicity Officer keeps close contacts with officials as well as social workers, press and the main currents in the public life of the district, and acts as a liaison between the people of the district and the Government.

He arranges sale and distribution of publications issued by the Directorate of Publicity as well as by the Government of India. He also distributes wall-posters, folders, booklets, leaflets, etc., brought out by the Directorate. He is also in-charge of District Information Centre. The office of the District Publicity Officer and the District Information Centre is under the Regional Publicity Officer, Poona.

The Centre provides for a free reading-room where newspapers, magazines, maps and charts giving information about the district, booklets on the Government activities in the district and books of general interest and other reports are kept for ready reference. Queries received from the visitors are duly replied with a view to guiding them. The movie equipment, along with the mobile publicity van, now comes under the control of the Zilla Pariahad. The supervision over the rural broadcasting section is also exercised by the Zilla Parishad.

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