Indias Information and Broadcasting Minister Ambika Soni today said a lot of broadcast media issues would be resolved if the media houses stringently followed the Cable Regulatory Act of 1995, DailyIndia.com reports.
“I don’t think regulatory bill means that there is going to be censorship on every programme. I go on reminding everybody that each one of you has signed the Cable Regulatory Act of 1995 which has a very defined programme code and a defined advertising code. If we keep that at the back of our minds, a lot of problems would be resolved,” she said.
Speaking at a meeting of broadcasting CEOs in New Delhi, Ms Soni said the media sector in India had grown considerably, even at a time when the world was recovering from economic downturn.
“Despite economic downturn in year 2008-2009, this is one sector, at least in India, which grew. Grew, in the sense that broadcasting grew at a higher rate along with print. This was reconfirmed when we had an international conference of magazines sections in New Delhi and newspapers section in Hyderabad,” she said.
She also said that countries across the world had seen negative figures, while in India it had grown from three percent to almost six percent in the magazine sector.
Ms Soni said the different fields of the broadcasting sector were projected to grow from 13 percent to 19 percent by 2014. (Source: ABU website)