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New Delhi , March 9

THE Information and Broadcasting Ministry has decided to set up a Core Group to draft a Bill for setting up of the Broadcasting Content Regulatory Authority and define its scope, objectives and functions.

The Standing Committee on Information Technology has agreed that it is imperative to check, regulate and prohibit, indecent, immoral content in the guise of aesthetic being telecast by the cable operator and other operator. It has also endorsed the setting up of a regulatory body.

In its action taken report to the Committee, the I&B Ministry has said, "The matter has been taken for inter-ministerial consultation on the need to have a separate Broadcasting Content Regulatory Authority Bill - separate and distinct from the Convergence Bill 2001 which has lapsed."

It further added that the proposed authority would have jurisdiction over all broadcasts of radio, cable, direct-to-home or terrestrial while any authority set up under the Cable Television Networks (Regulation) Act, 1995 would have limited scope.

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