What if I tell you that even in media you can have a secured officer class life! Read this…

Students aspiring for a media career usually have a great fear of job! These student always stay behind a bar of thousands of fears & questions which includes the factors like job security, financial aspects of life and much more questions like these. To resolve this “great problem” there is a “great option” called- The Indian Information Services (IIS) .

The Indian Information Services (IIS) Officers are controlled by the Ministry of Defence (Directorate of Public Relations). The their tasks includes-

• Managing government’s print media, electronic media, advertising agency, Union Ministeries (news desk),act as press advisors etc.
• Constitute a press party
• Organise press conferences
• Control official media
• Organise festivals (national and international), etc

The work is interesting as it uses the flare for journalism, public relations and administration all together. There is a special requirement to enter this service. The officer needs to have some previous experience of work in a newspaper or news agency or ad agency. The promotional channel is more or less the same as that of other Services.

The training for Indian Information Service is of two sorts; one is the trough the Civil Service Exam which is conducted by UPSC every year (50%) and the other is upgrading the officers already working at senior position of IIS of Group B (50%).

After the distribution by Department of Personnel & Training, the newly appointed officers have to pursue three months basic training in any of the recognized national academies.The other part of training includes nine months certified training in Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC) and further one year being part of media in several outlets like PIB, DPD, NSD, RNI, AIR, DFP, DDN and NMW under Ministry of Information and Broadcasting.

The scales in this service are exactly the same as in the other services, till the Senior Administrative Grade (SAG). At the top is a grade which is called Selection Grade (not to be confused with the Selection Grade which most services give their officers in their 14th year) and has a fixed salary, equal to what the senior most Additional Secretary would get.Training during probation is at the Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC), New Delhi.

An IIS Officer can be posted in organizations dealing with print media (e.g. Employment News) in the electronic media (e.g. AIR, Doordarshan, Films Division) or in an advertising agency (the Directorate of Audio Visual Publicity is the Country’s biggest advertisement agency).In short, IIS Officers can be posted to any of the several organizations that are controlled by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting or the Ministry of Defence (Directorate of Public Relations).

So, now the people out there getting frustrating, depressed and god knows what, wake up!! Here is the golden option for you all, go run and achieve that, All the best!!!