The Press Council of India was first set up in the year 1966 by the Parliament on the recommendations of the First Press Commission with the object of preserving the freedom of the press and of maintaining and improving the standards of press in India.
Ignorance and an inborn antipathy to any external pressure on one’s inclination to do, speak and write that which one pleases, are often responsible for a blind resistance to any law, custom, tradition or norms.