Tender notices to be published only in Sikkim Herald

GANGTOK, 27 June: Advertisements for contract works of the government in the State will no longer be issued to privately owned newspapers. Notice Inviting Tenders of the government departments will henceforth be published only in Sikkim Herald, the weekly newspaper published by the Information & Public Relations Department.

The IPR Department has issued a notification to the effect that all NITs of the government departments, autonomous bodies and joint ventures shall be published in the Sikkim Herald only with immediate effect.

While this decision of the State government has been in the pipeline for the past few days, the official notification announcing it, has come as a shocker for most newspaper houses in the state, a sizeable chunk of whose revenue comes from NIT advertisements.

Other advertisements and notices of the government such as calls for recruitment will continue to be issued to the newspapers for now.