	I would like to confine my remarks to some of the issues that have come before us for some time past. I would like to refer to the tendency of monopoly, the policy of the government and the distribution of governmental patronage to newspapers. Before I do that, I would like to make one general observation. The press commission was constituted some time ago by the government and it had made various recommendations which were partly accepted and partly not but today the situation has changed considerably. In their report every year, you find new trends developing in the Indian press and new forces coming into play. I feel the situation has changed considerably now since the first press commission to make a thorough was constituted and I would suggest that there should be a second press commission. I feel, that this is a necessary step to be taken in view of the fact that many of the recommendations made by the Press Commission have become outdated and some of them have not been accepted by the Government of India. Therefore, it is very essential that we should have another press commission to enquire about the Indian press. Now, I would deal with some of the points which I referred to earlier, namely, the tendencies of monopoly in the Indian Press. When one goes through the pages of the report of the registrar of newspapers, one cannot escape the conclusion that tendencies of monopoly have been increasing day by day.
	I might read out a few sentences so that we might be able to understand the dangerous trend that is prevalent so far as monopoly is concerned. The registrar of newspapers says in chapter V that there is a further concentration of newspapers, under common ownership as represented by chains, groups and multiple units. I would like to know whether we should not cry a halt to this growth of monopoly in the press. The constitution provides that parliament in its turn might delegate these powers to the president or to some authority to be named by him, but obviously, when this distinction between the executive and the legislative power was made in the constitution, it is reasonable to suppose that only under exceptional circumstances the parliament was to delegate that power to the president.
