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24 foreign TV channels can't telecast in India for lack of
permission
Wednesday December 12, 2012 08:13:09 AM,
IANS
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New Delhi: The Indian
government Tuesday said 24 foreign TV channels have been denied
permission to telecast in India as they have either not sought
permission for down-linking or such permission has not been given.
External affairs ministry spokesperson Syed Akbaruddin said at a
media briefing that the information and broadcasting ministry in
its Dec 4 reply in the Lok Sabha on the issue had said that under
Indian laws, "you require permission for down-linking of TV
channels to India".
"There are approximately more than 90 TV channels which are of
foreign origin which are down-linked legally in India. Any other
channel which has not sought this permission is technically in
violation of our norms and regulations," he said.
The 24 TV channels are "the ones which neither have sought that
permission nor has such permission been given. That is where it
is," he added.
The spokesperson added that the information and broadcasting
ministry's answer said that "some of these TV channels are, in the
view of some of our agencies, considered to carry anti-national
information".
However, the ministry has "not listed any names as to which of
these 'some' that they pertain to".
"But yes, the fact is correct that none of those 24 channels has
sought permission for down-linking into India and have not been
granted permission. So, to that extent they do not conform to
Indian laws for transmission of TV channels to India," the
spokesperson said.
Over the last three years, the list has remained almost the same,
barring one or two of the channels that had sought permission and
been granted permission for down-linking, Akbaruddin said.
"So, this is neither new information, nor is it targeted towards
any of those channels, nor does it indicate which of these TV
channels are assessed by some of our security agencies as
containing content which is perceived by them as anti-national,"
the spokesperson said.
"But the issue is not whether they are anti-national or not. The
issue is that they do not conform to Indian regulations," he
added.
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