Media Certification and Monitoring Committee Cell inaugurated in Karimnagar
The Hindu
Media Centre-cum-MCMC was inaugurated at Karimnagar collectorate to disseminate election information and monitor 'paid news' during Lok Sabha elections.
A Media Centre-cum-Media Certification and Monitoring Committee (MCMC) Cell was inaugurated by Collector and District Election Officer Pamela Satpathy at the District Training Centre in the Collectorate in Karimnagar on Wednesday.
The Media Centre will disseminate the relevant information related to the ensuing Lok Sabha elections to the personnel of both print and electronic media. The MCMC cell has been set up as per the prescribed guidelines of the Election Commission of India to check the menace of ‘paid news’ during the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, official sources said.
Additional Collectors Praful Desai and K Lakshmikiran, Assistant Director, I&PR Department, Lakshman Kumar and others were present.
The voter turnout in the first of the two-phase Lok Sabha polls in Karnataka on Friday, which sealed the fate of 247 candidates, stood at 69.23%, marginally higher than the 68.96% recorded in 2019. Continuing the trend of urban apathy, the three constituencies in the State capital — Bengaluru North, Bengaluru Central, and Bengaluru South — recorded a turnout of 54.42%, 52.81%, and 53.15%, respectively. Mandya recorded the highest turnout at 81.48%.