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tl;dr After concluding consultations on the Broadcasting Services (Regulation) Bill, 2023 (“Broadcasting Bill, 2023”), the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (“MIB”) reportedly circulated a watermarked copy of the revised draft Broadcasting Bill, 2024 with a select set of stakeholders after holding private, closed-door meetings with them. Although the 2024 Bill was never officially published by […]
tl;dr The Broadcasting Bill, 2023 lists penalties in the First and Third Schedule, i.e. penalties for contravention of provisions not relating to (Clause 34) and relating to (Clause 35) the Programme Code and Advertisement Code and for contravention of Programme Code and Advertisement Code and the penalties and imprisonment terms for contravention of provisions of […]
[Update dated August 07, 2024: Please note that we have redacted personal information from responses we received from individual stakeholders as well as organisations/ companies. The post was also updated to reflect links to the submissions made publicly available by Access Now, Deepstrat, and CCAOI before IFF received these as part of the RTI response.] […]