Shimla: The Himachal Pradesh High Court today directed the state government to frame a comprehensive welfare scheme for improving working conditions of the journalists in the state.

A division bench of Justice Rajiv Sharma and Justice Sureshwar Thakur also suggested the government to create a corpus funds for providing pension benefits to journalists and their dependents who have worked as active journalist for at least 20 to 25 years, and asked the government to come out with welfare scheme in three months.