A state-level media certification and monitoring committee (MCMC) meeting under the chairmanship of Nagaland Chief Electoral Officer (CEO), V Shashank Shekhar, was held in his office chamber on Friday.
The MCMC meeting was called to monitor on the pre-certification of political advertisement, paid news, social media etc., stated a DIPR report.
In his opening remarks, the CEO informed the state-level media committee and district-level committees to take responsibility of their powers and functions and also examine the norms and procedures according to the ECI guidelines.
Shekhar stated that all registered national and state political parties and every candidate contesting for the election must apply for pre-certification of political advertisement, not later than three days prior to the date of the proposed commencement of the telecast of the advertisement.
On the timeline to submit application for certification, it also mentioned that in case of any other person or unregistered political parties, it should be not later than seven days prior to the date of the telecast.
The committee also discussed and agreed to organise a workshop on monitoring of electronic and social media including the print media in regard to the upcoming general election, which is scheduled on February 27.
Further, it was also decided that the committee would meet political parties from time to time in regard to paid news.
The meeting was also attended by additional CEO, Ruokuovituo Khezhie; joint chief electoral officer, Sharon Longchari; additional director of I&PR, Dzuvinuo Theunuo; president of Kohima Press Club, Alice Yhoshu; PIB assistant director, K Sonikumar Singh, besides representatives from AIR, Kohima, IT department and others.