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UGC: Avoid content promoting terrorism- 18-Jul-2015
Chennai: Journalism and Mass Communication departments in institutions affiliated to universities in India have been advised to promote a media policy that avoids generating content which may advance the agenda of terrorism.
According to a recommendation of the University Grants Commission (UGC), the “media policy should include principles of self-restraint” as there is a raging debate over the freedom of media showing content that may incite terror acts.
“The institutions imparting education in Mass Communication and Journalism need to be sensitised to avoid such elements which may advance the agenda of terrorism,” it said in a communication to all vice-chancellors. The UGC’s recommendation is in line with the Administrative Reforms Commission’s 8th report on combating terrorism.
In a separate communication, the UGC also asked institutes across the country to include in their curriculum issues relating to weapons of mass destruction, disarmament and peaceful use of chemistry as students are largely ignorant about the important international conventions. “India is a prominent signatory to the Chemical Weapons’ Convention (CWC). The National Authority of Chemical Weapons’ Convention (NACWC) has decided that education and awareness should be the thrust area to create mass awareness for chemical disarmament,” the UGC said in the communication. The aim is to help young students gain scientific knowledge and principles about international conventions like the CWC which have a bearing on welfare of entire humankind, it said.
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