No intention to control media: Maha CM on setting up of monitoring centre

The Maharashtra government does not intend to control the media through the monitoring centre that it plans to set up, Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said on Saturday while asserting the mechanism was to “take note” of what is printed and broadcast for response and clarification purposes.

The media monitoring centre (MMC) to be set up under the state government’s Directorate of Information and Publicity has come in for criticism and is being dubbed as a move to control the media.