Policies and initiatives of the Centre will be showcased at a two-day Regional Editors' Conference for Southern States organized by Press Information Bureau in Chennai which will be inaugurated by Minister for Information and Broadcasting M Venkaiah Naidu tomorrow.
The two day conference will discuss the policies and initiatives of key Ministries such as Urban Development, Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation, Information and Broadcasting, Road Transport and Shipping, Commerce and Trade, Information and Communication Technology and Home Affairs, a statement released here said.
The participants will be apprised of the key programmes and roadmap for the future pertaining to flagship schemes, it added.
Around 80 senior media persons from Andhra Pradesh, Telengana, Kerala, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Union Territories of Lakshadweep and Puducherry will be participating in the Conference organaised by the PIB.
Following the inaugural session by Naidu, the conference will be addressed by Union Minister for Law and Justice Ravi Shankar Prasad. The focus of deliberations during this session will be on the Information Technology Hub connecting Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad and Kochi.
The afternoon session will be dedicated to discussions on Disaster Management. The efforts of the Disaster Management apparatus of the government since Chennai Flood in December 2015 and other climate change related calamities that have taken place in the region will be the highlight of the session, the statement said.
Union Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will also speak on new initiatives that seeks to push Make In India project. PIB earlier hosted a Social Editors' Conference in Jaipur earlier this year.
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