Tenders for government projects are advertised in newspapers almost daily. A single page advertisement can cost nearly Rs. 50 lakhs ($ 100,000) . Often one tender itself extends over several pages and entire sections of the newspaper may consist only of such ads.<\/p>\n
Newspapers today get a lot of revenue from such advertisers and not from their readers, and hence care little about the content that the newspaper carries. Many of these tender ads are for projects that are of a specialised nature and hence are neither read nor understood by other readers.<\/p>\n
Government departments, e.g. Railways, must have a system whereby interested suppliers can empanel themselves so as to be informed whenever there is a new tender.With it being mandatory for every government department to have a website, why should government continue to advertise tenders in newspapers? At the most, a small advertisement announcing a new tender with website details would suffice.<\/p>\n
Government departments must also look at creative and innovative ways to save public money. Discontinuing advertising of tenders in newspapers for government projects can be an important step. What is your view on the current practice? How do you think this impacts the independence of the media? What are your suggestions? \u0938\u093e\u092d\u093e\u0930 : www.karmayog.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tenders for government projects are advertised in newspapers almost daily. A single page advertisement can cost nearly Rs. 50 lakhs ($ 100,000) . Often one tender itself extends over several pages and entire sections of the newspaper may consist only of such ads.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-comment"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t