Staff Reproter

Newspaper Owners’ Association of Bangladesh (NOAB) has urged the government to increase its advertisement budget commensurate with the recent increase in advertisement rate.
At a general meeting of the association on Thursday NOAB noted with concern that although advertisement rate was increased recently in the wake of Wage Board Award, there was no indication yet of a corresponding increase in the rate of government advertisements and that of autonomous bodies. It also expressed apprehension that unless advertisement budget was increased the volume of advertisement and the number of insertions would decline from the current level. [Read more]