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Government of India

Ministry of Finance

01-October-2012 18:32 IST

The Economic Editors’ Conference (EEC-2012) will be held on 8th and 9^th October, 2012. Union Finance Minister Shri P. Chidambaram will inaugurate the Conference at 11.00 a.m. on October 8, 2012 and interact with media during the opening session.  The venue of the Conference is PIB Conference Hall, Shastri Bhawan, New Delhi. 

Union Ministers for the Ministries of Communication & IT, Railways, Road Transport & Highways, Agriculture, Civil Aviation, Power, Corporate Affairs and Petroleum & Natural Gas will address other sessions of the two day Conference.  The Conference is open to registered delegates only, who have been sent specific invitation for the purpose.  However, sessions on various Ministries can also be attended by the beat correspondents of the concerned Ministry.

 Entry for each session will be on the basis of a specific card.  Beat correspondents covering different Ministries can collect this card from their respective Departmental Publicity Officer (DPO) from October 5, 2012 during office hours. The schedule of the Conference is as under:

 SCHEDULE OF ECONOMIC EDITORS’ CONFERENCE-2012

October 8, 2012 (Monday)

9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.  Registration of delegates

11:00 a.m. to 12:45 p.m.    Inauguration by Union Finance Minister Shri P. Chidambaramfollowed by FM’s address and media interaction

12:45 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.      Lunch

2:30 p.m. to 3.30 p.m.  Ministry of Communication & IT

3:30 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.  Tea

4:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. Ministries of Railways and RT & Highways             

October 9, 2012 (Tuesday)

10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. Ministry of Agriculture

11:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.  Tea

11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.  Ministry of Civil Aviation

12:30 p.m. to 2:15 p.m. Lunch & Reimbursement of claims

2:15 p.m. to 3:15 p.m.  Ministries of Power and Corporate Affairs                              

3:15 p.m. to 3:45 p.m.   Tea

3:45 p.m. to 4:45 p.m. Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas

                                               

(D.S. Malik)

ADG (M&C)

 M/o Finance

1.10.12

 

Access restriction to conference sessions requires specific credentials collected from departmental publicity officers for beat correspondents to attend. An advisory announces a two day economic editors' conference restricted to registered delegates by specific invitation, with session access controlled by a session entry card. Beat correspondents may attend relevant Ministry sessions only upon collecting the entry card from their Departmental Publicity Officer during office hours. The notice sets out ministerial participation, a detailed timetable, registration procedures, credentialing as the operative access mechanism, and administrative arrangements including lunch and reimbursement procedures.