The Bill aims to improve business operations by shortening the title registration process from a lengthy 2-3 years to a more efficient 60-day period.

The government also plans to roll out an OTT platform and conduct trials of direct-to-mobile television broadcast this year.

The National Film Development Corporation has been allotted Rs 3,0515 crore.

Starting March 1, the channels have been asked by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting to reveal details about their daily ‘public service’ content.

It is mandated as per the newly approved ‘Guidelines for Uplinking and Downlinking of Television Channels in India, 2022’.

Until now, there was no government body to monitor digital news portals or online content providers.

Dr. Shalabh, Professor of StatisticsDepartment of Mathematics and Statistics, IIT Kanpur, Rajkumar Upadhyay executive director C-DOT and professor Pulak Ghosh, decision sciences, Centre for Public Policy will join Vempati in the committee as members.

The former I&B Minister said that the issue should be settled between broadcasters and viewers. The government should stay out of it.

Earlier today, the minister held a video conference with an Indian Broadcasting Foundation delegation.

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