PRESS INFORMATION BUREAU

The Press Information Bureau (PIB) is the nodal agency of the Government of India to disseminate information to the print and electronic media on its various policies, and programmes. The organisation is headed by the Principal Information Officer. There are 8 regional offices and 35 branch offices for disseminating information. The Bureau at the headquarters has a team of officers attached to various Ministries and Departments for the purpose of assisting them in the management of the media and public relations. The PIB acts as an interface between the Government and the media and the Information Officers serve as official spokesmen for the Government.
The Principal Information Officer is the Media Advisor to the Government of India . The important functions of PIB are:

· The accreditation of Indian and foreign media representatives.
· Press briefings and press conferences.
· Feedback to the Government on the press and public reaction.
· Special service for Urdu and small newspapers
· Conduct of press tours to the development projects, remote and backward areas.
· Organising special workshops, trainings etc.

The information material released by the Bureau in Hindi, English, Urdu and other regional languages reaches to over 8408 newspapers and media organizations. The Bureau at Headquarters has a team of officers who are  attached to various Ministries and Departments for the purpose of assisting them in dissemination of information to the media. They also provide feedback to their assigned Ministries / Departments on people's reaction being reflected in media towards Government policies and programmes. As part of the Special Services the Feedback Cell prepares daily digest and special digests based on news stories and editorials from national as well as regional dailies and periodicals.The Features Unit of the Bureau provides backgrounders, updates, infonuggets, features and graphics. These are circulated on the national network and on the Internet and are also sent to the Regional and Branch Offices for translation and circulation to the local press. PIB arranges photo coverage of Government activities and the photographs are supplied to dailies and periodicals published in English and other Indian languages all over the country. 

PIB is connected to 29 Regional Centres by video conferencing system through  NIC studios. This enables media persons at Regional Centres to participate in Press Conference in New Delhi and also in other parts of the country. 

PIB provides accreditation facility to media persons so as to make easy access to information from the Government sources. 

(For more information visit PIB's home page at www.pib.nic.in)