September 26, 2007	Wednesday	Ramazan 13, 1428

ISLAMABAD, Sept 25: The National Assembly’s standing committee on information and broadcasting observed on Tuesday that the employees of Pakistan Television (PTV) should enjoy equal fringe benefits based on talent and professional skills.

The committee met here under the chairmanship of Rehana Aleem Mashhadi to discuss the discrimination in salary packages for contractual and regular employees of PTV.

The members said senior PTV employees should be facilitated like the contractual ones, who were getting generous remunerations.

Information and Broadcasting Secretary Anwer Mehmood informed the committee that the contractual newscasters and anchors of current affairs programmes were good professionals, therefore, they were being offered competitive salaries to enhance PTV’s performance and compete with the private channels.

The Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) chairman told the committee that a voluntary code of conduct for the electronic media had been formulated after a series of meetings with the different stakeholders. This code of conduct will be implemented by the broadcasting industry voluntarily, he added.—Online