NEW DELHI: The Information and Broadcasting (I&B) Ministry is actively considering steps to make India a teleport hub enabling the country to become an up-linking/downlinking centre like Hong Kong and Singapore. The Ministry will soon hold consultations with industry to discuss, modalities, challenges and road map for making India a teleport hub.
This was disclosed by Mr Uday Kumar Varma, Secretary, I&B Ministry while addressing “India-The Big Picture”, the CII Media & Entertainment Summit 2012 in New Delhi. Mr Varma said that India becoming a teleport hub could be instrumental in attracting accelerated flow of foreign direct investment (FDI). State-of-the-art technology and can help move up in the value chain in content generation. The recent decision of the government to allow 74 per cent FDI in DTH, IPTV, mobile TV etc. are some of the steps that have been taken in this direction and underscored that those steps would be game changers to make India a digitally happening place.
Mr Varma said that many positive steps would be taken in revamping the FM Radio to enhance its reach and content. The empowered Group of Ministers are looking into some of the grey areas in the auction of 839 new FM radio stations across over 290 towns and cities in the country.
“We hope to complete the auction of the first tranche of the stations by the end of the financial year,” he added.
The government is also taking steps to restructure National Broadcasting Corporation by enabling Prasar Bharti to recruit fresh talent and restructuring its financial flows.
Mentioning that the government would be celebrating 100 years of cinema of India with the support of the film industry, Mr Varma invited the doyens of the Indian film industry to join the tableaux to be presented at the Republic Day Parade 2013 in New Delhi by walking down the Rajpath that day. He also mentioned about the proposed National Film Heritage Mission (NFHM) with the objectives of undertaking frame-by-frame picture and sound restoration of more than 2500 films that are an important component of the Indian film industry.
India Post News Service
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