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18/06/22 07:55 AM IST

Smt. Justice Ranjana Prakash Desai

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  • Retired Supreme Court judge Ranjana Prakash Desai became the first women chairperson of the Press Council of India (PCI) with the government formally announcing her appointment.
About Ranjan Parkash Desai
  • The name of 72-year-old Justice Desai for the post of PCI chairperson was recently cleared by a committee comprising Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu, Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla and PCI member Prakash Dubey.
  • Before her stint in the apex court from September 13, 2011 to October 29, 2014, she was a judge of the Bombay High Court.
  • Justice Desai, 72, had recently headed the Delimitation Commission on Jammu and Kashmir which was set up to redraw the Assembly constituencies of the Union Territory.
  • The post of the PCI chairman was lying vacant since Justice Chandramauli Kumar Prasad (retd) completed his term and demitted office last November.
About PCI 
  • The Press Council of India is a statutory, adjudicating organisation in India formed in 1966 by its parliament.
  • It is the self-regulatory watchdog of the press, for the press and by the press, that operates under the Press Council Act of 1978.
  • The Council has a chairman – traditionally, a retired Supreme Court judge, and 28 additional members of which 20 are members of media, nominated by the newspapers, television channels and other media outlets operating in India.
Source- PIB 

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