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.
