Reporters Without Borders, the Network of Women in Media, India, Free Speech Collective, and the Internet Freedom Foundation, have “10 urgent recommendations” for the NDA government to protect journalists, guarantee media independence, amend laws that restrict the right to information, and safeguard access to the Internet and digital media.
“The erosion of press freedom in India, which has happened over the past decade, is deeply worrying in a country that has joined 52 other nations in signing up to the Partnership for Information and Democracy. It creates a very negative international image of a country billed as the world's largest democracy. As India’s journalists struggle to work in an environment where press freedom is declining, Indian civil society organisations join RSF in calling on the new government to urgently adopt 10 key measures to guarantee the protection of journalists and safeguard Indians’ right to information,” said Célia Mercier, RSF’s South Asia desk.
