All India Radio expects to commission 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, announced
Union Minister Venkaiah Naidu on Thursday.
Minister for Information
& Broadcasting, Naidu, said that the transmitters will be installed in
Delhi.
The I&B minister was speaking at a meeting in New Delhi to
review the functioning of the media units of Ministry of I&B located in the
Union Territories.
He said that the Government has been working
proactively with the States/UTs to enhance cooperation in the field of
communication and 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, Naidu said.
He
said adopting innovative ways and leveraging New Media in information
dissemination was necessary to keep pace with the changing communication
paradigm.
Col. Rajyavardhan Rathore, Minister of State for I&B, Prof.
Jagdish Mukhi, Lieutenant Governor of Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Secretary
I&B, N K Sinha, representatives from UTs and senior officers from Ministry
were also present during the meeting.
Soliciting cooperation from the UTs,
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 DM’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 3,704 publications has submitted their Annual Returns in the last
five years.
The I&B minister also said that 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, 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.
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 on Thursday, 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.
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