The Central Government issued the Central Media Accreditation Guidelines-2022 on Monday, which state that accreditation will be revoked or suspended if a journalist acts in a way that jeopardises the country's security, sovereignty, and integrity, friendly relations with foreign states, public order, or is charged with a serious cognizable offence.

Other reasons for withdrawal/suspension of accreditation include actions prejudicial to decency or morality, as well as contempt of court, defamation, or incitement to an offence.

Accredited media persons are not permitted to use the words "Accredited to the Government of India" on their public/social media profiles, visiting cards, letter heads, or any other form or published work, according to the guidelines.
The general terms of accreditation would apply to digital news publishers. News aggregators will not be taken into account. The digital news publishers applying for accreditation must have provided the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting with the necessary information required by Rule 18 of the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code), Rules, 2021, and must not have violated the rules. 

The website should have been up and running for at least a year. The news portal's editor should be an Indian national. The website should have an Indian registered office, and the correspondents should be based in Delhi or the National Capital Region.

Freelance journalists working for foreign news organisations will not be granted accreditation.