Tuesday 22 October 2013

Broadcasters to get MHA Security clearance Every Three Years

Home Ministry has clarified to the I & B Ministry that security clearances given to companies by the Ministry for running TV channels will be considered valid for a period of three years only.
The Home Ministry conveyed this in a letter to the Information & Broadcasting Ministry, which had earlier sent a query to it asking if the security clearance given to broadcasting companies came with a time frame attached.
According to present guidelines, broadcasting licences are granted for a period of 10 years after the security clearance is given by the Home Ministry in which verification of the credentials of all the directors of the company is done.
Putting an expiry date of three years on every security clearance given by Home Ministry would mean that all such clearances given before October 2010 would have to be reviewed again.
Currently there are nearly 300 companies that run around 800 TV channels in the country, and the security of a majority of these entities were cleared more than three years ago.
The I&B ministry had earlier in the year carried out a comprehensive review of all the companies to whom it had given licences and realised that some of them had made changes in their board of directors without informing it.
The ministry has issued show cause notices to nearly half a dozen such companies and even cancelled the registration of a few.

Source: http://cablequest.org/news/national-news/item/3358-broadcasters-to-get-mha-security-clearance-every-three-years.html
Source: http://cablequest.org/news/national-news/item/3358-broadcasters-to-get-mha-security-clearance-every-three-years.html

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