New Delhi – Minister of state for information and broadcasting Anand Sharma assured the media industry that there was no plan to impose a ‘blanket ban’ on live coverage of live incidents. Sharma said that the government was committed to ‘the widest possible’ consultations with stakeholders before taking any plan involving guidelines for the electronic media. Answering questions in Parliament, Sharma said the government had no intention to control the news content of the news channel in any manner. “At no point government contemplated such a move,” he added. The government has already initiated a process of consultation in this regard with several stakeholders including representatives of the electronic media and concerned governmental agencies. He said several meetings had been held with representatives of the News Broadcasters Association (NBA), the Indian Broadcasting Federation (IBF), security agencies and defence forces after the Mumbai terror attacks. Sharma said broadcasters had themselves formulated a self-regulating mechanism and assured the government they would adhere to it. Sharma added that a grievance redressal mechanism under the chairmanship of a former chief justice of India has also been put in place for redressing complaints relating to broadcast of such incidents. He said a standing committee had been set up under the chairmanship of the Secretary in his ministry with representatives from various ministries and news broadcasters, sociologists, and experts from various fields to outline basic guidelines on the content of entertainment that could be allowed to be telecast.
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