India’s ranking on the press freedom index fell further this year, but the Narendra Modi government believes the rankings themselves are dubious.Yesterday (July 19), during the monsoon session of parliament in the upper house, information and broadcasting minister Anurag Thakur said that though the government has seen reports of the press freedom index ranking, it does not consider these relevant (pdf). “The government does not agree to the conclusions drawn by this organisation for various reasons,” Thakur said, which included “very low sample size, little or no weightage to fundamentals of democracy, adoption of a methodology which is questionable and nontransparent, and lack of clear defi
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