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PHOTO DIVISION

INTRODUCTION
Photo Division, an independent media unit meant for visual support for the varied activities of the
Government of India, is a subordinate office of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting and
the biggest production unit of its kind in the country in the field of photography.

Photo Division was established on 6 th October 1959 as an integrated Photo Unit which was
renamed as Photo Division in the early sixties. Government of India took a decision to establish
this organization in the end of fifties, integrating the photo studio of the Publication Division and
the Photo Unit of the Press Information Bureau & D.A.V.P. in view of the importance of the
medium for right projection of the development of the country and also keeping in view of
eliminating the duplication of the activities.
The Division is responsible for visual documentation and the preparing photographs both in
Black & White and Colour initially for both of internal and external publicity on behalf of the
Government of India.

FUNCTION/PROGRAMME
The major function of the Photo Division is to document photographically, the growth,
Development and the political, economical and social changes in the country and to provide
visuals (still) to the media units of the Ministry of Information & Broadcasting and other Central
and State Government Agencies, Ministries/Departments including President Secretariat, VicePresident Secretariat, Prime Ministers Office, Lok Sabha & Rajya Sabha Secretariats and Indian
Missions abroad through XP Division of the Ministry of External Affairs.
External Publicity Division of the Ministry of External Affairs and the P.I.B get the major chunks of
the services provided by the Photo Division. While PIB uses the picture taken by the Division for
the day-to day feeding to the Press through Internet, DAVP depends on the complete visual
support from the archives of the Division, which is developed during the last four decades for the
preparation/production of various kind of Exhibition/advertising materials to be circulated
amongst the large population of the country. On the other hand External Publicity Division of the
Ministry of External Affairs takes a major chunks of its production for the external publicity of the
Government of India. This includes extensive documentation of the visit of all the Heads of
States/Government of Foreign countries and presentation of the albums of the documentation of
those visits on the departure of VVIPs.

The Division also supplies photographs on payment both in Black & White and Colour to the nonpublicity organizations and general public through its Pricing Scheme.

PHOTO DIVISIONS ORGANISATIONAL SET UP


The Division is headed by a Director, with one Deputy Director, Senior Photographic Officer,
seven Photographic Officers, Administrative Officer, Accounts Officer and technical and nonministerial staff. For use of Rajbhasa as Official Language, the Division has a Hindi Section with
a Hindi Translator (Junior) and Hindi Typist (LDC) working directly under the Director for
implementation of Hindi. The present total sanctioned staff of the Division is 110 including its
regional Offices and its Unit.
Technical Officers including the Director, Deputy Director, Senior Photographic Officer and the
Photographic Officers of this Division have to accompany the VVIPs (Prime Minister, VicePresident etc.) for providing photo coverage of their visit within the country and also the visit to
abroad. Division takes up the documentation work particularly the Developmental activities,
social and economic changes time to time for enriching its collection for the posterity.
One Officer of the Division accompany the visiting Heads of States and a special Album
containing the entire documentation of the visit of the Dignitaries are presented just before their
departure from the country, even it is outside the Headquarter

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