{"id":3670,"date":"2023-01-12T11:52:37","date_gmt":"2023-01-12T07:52:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ministry1.govmu.org\/gis\/?page_id=3670"},"modified":"2024-11-22T11:31:43","modified_gmt":"2024-11-22T07:31:43","slug":"backgrounder","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/gis.govmu.org\/gis\/?page_id=3670","title":{"rendered":"Backgrounder"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"3670\" class=\"elementor elementor-3670\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-ada00dc elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"ada00dc\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-background-overlay\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-wide\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-9977196\" data-id=\"9977196\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-5b28d46 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"5b28d46\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-42283cb elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"42283cb\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-01df720\" data-id=\"01df720\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4b99fe1 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"4b99fe1\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Backgrounder<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-ca082bc elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"ca082bc\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-34987a3\" data-id=\"34987a3\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-inner-section elementor-element elementor-element-a300490 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"a300490\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-124feb4\" data-id=\"124feb4\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1819ecf elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"1819ecf\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>The Central Information Office (CIO) had been under the wing of the Chief secretary since January 1959. The Ministry of Information, Posts and Telegraphs and Telecommunications was set up in February 1962, and in February 1966 integrated the former CIO to make it operate as a division of the Ministry.<\/p><p>The 1967 Cabinet reshuffle divided the Ministry of Information, Posts and Telegraphs and Telecommunications into two separate ministries i.e. the Ministry of Information &amp; Broadcasting and the Ministry of Communications(also taking charge of Posts, Telegraphs and Telecommunications)<\/p><p>The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting became the Ministry of Information and Cooperatives following the appointment of a new Cabinet in June 1982. In August 1983, it was again split into two separate Ministries, namely the Ministry of Information and Ministry of Cooperatives.<\/p><p>In 1996, the Ministry of Information was abolished in the wake of reforms in the civil service and in its place a Government Information Service was set up.<\/p><p>The Government Information Service operates as a department within the Prime Minister\u2019s Office.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-fd6eea3 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"fd6eea3\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-65adb6a\" data-id=\"65adb6a\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ea5ae4e elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"ea5ae4e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Backgrounder The Central Information Office (CIO) had been under the wing of the Chief secretary since January 1959. The Ministry of Information, Posts and Telegraphs and Telecommunications was set up in February 1962, and in February 1966 integrated the former CIO to make it operate as a division of the Ministry. The 1967 Cabinet reshuffle &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/gis.govmu.org\/gis\/?page_id=3670\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Backgrounder<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3670","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gis.govmu.org\/gis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gis.govmu.org\/gis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gis.govmu.org\/gis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gis.govmu.org\/gis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gis.govmu.org\/gis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3670"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/gis.govmu.org\/gis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4179,"href":"https:\/\/gis.govmu.org\/gis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3670\/revisions\/4179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gis.govmu.org\/gis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}