Shri Naidu announces 2 new
Shortwave Solid State digital transmitters of 100 KW to broadcast across the
border for Afghanistan- Pakistan region
I&B
Minister convenes meeting to review functioning of Media Units in UTs
Minister for Information &
Broadcasting, Shri Venkaiah Naidu has said that the Government under the
leadership of Prime Minister has been working proactively with the States/UTs
to enhance the cooperation in the field of communication & outreach. Cooperation
between Centre and States/UTs in content generation in Indian languages and
local dialects was critical to effectively reach out to people in their own
language. Adopting innovative ways and leveraging New Media in information
dissemination was necessary to keep pace with the changing communication
paradigm. Minister stated this while chairing a meeting to review the
functioning of the media units of Ministry of I&B located in the Union
Territories here today. Col. Rajyavardhan Rathore, Minister of State for
I&B, Prof. Jagdish Mukhi, Lieutenant Governor of Andaman & Nicobar
Islands, Secretary I&B, Shri N K Sinha, representatives from UTs and senior
officers from Ministry were also present during the meeting.
Soliciting cooperation from the
UTs, Shri Naidu stressed upon the need to ensure
effective implementation of Cable TV Act in order to restrict airing of
objectionable content and unauthorized channels. He urged UTs to appoint Nodal
officers who can assist the DMs for this task in the UTs. He also highlighted
that UT
administration was required to direct concerned District Magistrate’s to
investigate the matter for identifying non-existing publications in their
districts and cancel the declarations of such publications as per the PRB Act.
Out of 16,132 registered publications in Delhi, only 3704 publications has
submitted their Annual Returns in the last five years.
During
the review meeting, Shri Naidu announced that the All India Radio would be commissioning
of two new Shortwave Solid State digital transmitters of 100 kW power each for
dissemination of content across the border for Afghanistan- Pakistan region by
the end of August 2017. The transmitters shall be installed in Delhi. For the
Andaman and Nicobar, a new 100 W FM transmitter would be installed in Car
Nicobar by the end of the financial year. He also mentioned that to enhance the
outreach, the 3KW FM transmitter in Daman would be replaced by 6KW transmitter.
Similarly, in Karaikal, Puducherry, the present 6 KW FM transmitter would be
replaced by 10 KW FM transmitter to enhance the reach.
Highlighting the importance of communication in
local dialects, Shri Naidu urged the UTs to give emphasis to setting up of community
radio stations in UTs. He also
mentioned the liberalised subsidy
of 75% by Central Government for
stakeholders in this regard.
Shri Naidu reiterated that the Government
believed in cooperative federalism
and that the centre & states/UTs need to work as Team India in scripting the
development narrative.
Col. Rajyavardhan Rathore,
Minister of State for I&B mentioned that the monitoring of the content
broadcast by cable operators/ channels can be done using a software and that
physical verification was not required.
Earlier today, Secretary I&B
chaired a review meeting with the officials from UTs, senior officials from
Ministry and media units heads to discuss and deliberate on the concerned
issues.
Courtesy:pib.nic.in
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