To run 24×7 YouTube channel showing ‘positive side of govt’, Rajasthan floats Rs 10-crore tender

The bureau volition besides make contented for district-level YouTube channels arsenic good as Instagram, Facebook and X accounts of the Information and Public Relations Department of the Rajasthan government, and besides run and negociate these accounts. It volition besides livestream assorted programmes of the Chief Minister and nonstop approved footage of different developments to assorted quality channels, among different tasks.

“Imagine getting unrecorded updates from the different broadside successful the Samrawata lawsuit from the territory administration. That would person painted a antithetic picture,” an authoritative said, referring to the incidental wherever Deoli-Uniara bypoll campaigner Naresh Meena slapped the section SDM. The incidental flared up and led to arson and violence, allegedly by Meena’s supporters.

And though the program whitethorn miss the upcoming Rising Rajasthan concern acme successful December, officials consciousness the caller measures volition assistance cheque the communicative during definite important moments, specified arsenic the Samrawata case.

Apart from audio/video editors, quality anchors, producers, graphic designers, leafage designers, voiceover artists, camerapersons, dependable engineers, constitution artists, societal media managers, etc, the bureau volition besides beryllium required to person 1 stringer successful each of the 200 Assembly constituencies.

One of the aims of the bureau would beryllium to get a 5 per cent summation successful followers/subscribers connected societal media accounts each quarter. The tender besides includes provisions for penalties, including 0.5 per cent of monthly payment, successful lawsuit the YouTube transmission isn’t increasing by 5 per cent each quarter.

As for stringers, they volition beryllium fixed 3 hours to supply videos aft instructions. If that is not done, past a punishment of Rs 5,000 volition beryllium imposed, going up to Rs 50,000 if the video is not provided astatine all.

With the bureau being authorised to usage the existing method instrumentality of the Information and Public Relations Department, arsenic good arsenic its workplace successful Jaipur, immoderate officials said that “a amended enactment would person been to fortify the Department and its personnel, and supply america with the method instrumentality and manpower instead”.