 However, most of its foot-soldiers were low-cost recruits, who had little to do with journalism.In 2000, the NDA government launched a Kashmir-based regional channel—DD Kashir and ANI was allowed to produce its programs; By the end of 2005, ANI's business-model was performing impressively and it had shifted its office out of Gole Market, to a new five-storey building in R.K. Puram.ANI continued to be trusted by the upcoming UPA governments, to the extent of MEA choosing Smita to be a part of the two-member-strong contingent of Indian journalists at both of the joint press conferences between the incumbent prime ministers of India and USA.