Under the Directorate of Information and Public Relation, the Assam government sets up the SMRT (Social Media Research Team) to combat against the rapid promulgation of ambiguous information. In recent days, a lot of false information has been spread around the state regarding government policies, notices and programs in the social media platform. In order to effectively propose this process, a nodal officer has been assigned from each government department.
SMRT is tasked for recognizing any kind of harmful data, lethal publicizing and other disinformation over social networking sites along with it they are assigned to supervise demeaning comments on the government’s program. The government has taken this step in order to protect the administration’s policies from harmful public opinions.