Section 6 in The Orissa Press Accreditation (Constitution of the Orissa Press Accreditation Committee and Grant of Accreditation) Rules, 1994
6. General eligibility criteria for grant of accreditation.
- An applicant for accreditation shall not be eligible unless he/she-(i)has acquired not less than five years experience as a Working Journalist for State Level accreditation and not less than three years experience as a Working Journalist for accreditation at District or Sub-divisional or Block Level :Provided that experience of work in a Government media organisation viz. The Press Information Bureau of Government of India, News Services Division of All India Radio, the News Unit of Doordarshan, the Photo Division of Government of India may be deemed as equivalent to experience of work in a news media organisation for the purpose of accreditation. Those officers having experience of Journalistic Work in Media Units of the Information and Public Relations Department of the State Government other than those refereed to above, may also be considered for the purpose of accreditation if the Committee would be satisfied about their journalistic experience.(ii)Application for accreditation shall be considered only from those media representatives who reside either at Bhubaneswar or Cuttack for State Level accreditation and District, Sub-divisional and Block Headquarters for accreditation at respective levels. However, in consultation with the Committee, Government may relax this for granting district level accreditation in case of the journalists stationed at other important news centers.
