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State of Odisha - Section

Section 14 in The Orissa Press Accreditation (Constitution of the Orissa Press Accreditation Committee and Grant of Accreditation) Rules, 1994

14. The maximum number of Journalists who may be accreditated.

(1)The maximum number of journalists who may be granted accreditation by the State Government at the State, District, Subdivision and Block levels shall be kept within such reasonable limits as may be determined periodically by Government after taking into account (a) the limitations of the press information service of the Government, (b) the capacity to provide necessary facilities for accredited Journalists and (c) importance of the places of reporting for the newspaper/news agency/news media Organisation. For determining the total number of such Journalists Government may seek the recommendations of the Committee.The maximum number of State level representatives to be based either at Cuttack or at Bhubaneswar that may be accredited on behalf of a newspaper including a newspaper published from more than one place in Orissa shall be determined on the basis of its circulation as follows :
(1) DAILIES Maximum number of Accredited Journalists
(a) Circulation from 5,000 to 50,000 Two
(b) Circulation from 50,001 to 75,000 Three
(c) Circulation from 75,001 to 125,000 Four
(d) Circulation from 125,001 to, 150,000 Five
(e) Circulation from 150,001 onwards Six
(2) WEEKLIES/FORTNIGHTLIES  
(a) Circulation from 5,000 to 50,000 One
(b) Circulation above 50,000 Two
In case of tabloids only one correspondent should be given State level accreditation.Not more than one journalist of English/Hindi/Other regional language dailies including dailies published from more than one place from outside the State and with considerable circulation in Orissa shall be given accreditation at the State level to be based either at Cuttack or at Bhubaneswar. The number of State level accredited journalists of each of the News Agencies shall be limited to two only. In special cases on request from the National News Agencies only a maximum of representatives may be given accreditation.
(ii)Daily newspapers and news agencies, weeklies and fortnightlies published from Orissa, Oriya dailies, weeklies and fortnightlies published from outside Orissa will be entitled to accreditation at District, Sub-divisional and Block levels subject to the conditions prescribed in these rules. In exceptional circumstances newspapers published from outside the State with considerable circulation in Orissa and news agency and News Media Organisations of repute can be given accreditation at the District, Sub-divisional and Block level.
(iii)For granting accreditation in case of weeklies and fortnightlies the main criteria should be content study of the paper and the material published in the paper should justify the necessity for its journalist's day to day collection of news from official sources and day to day contact with such sources.
(iv)Not more than one accredited journalist and one accredited photographer of a newspaper/news agency/news media Organisation shall claim facilities for attending one-official function.