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FM players approach ministry for AIR towersBS ICE Bureau Private FM players in New Delhi, Madars and Calcutta have evinced interest in taking up All India Radio towers to begin their services and have approached the information and broadcasting ministry for approval. For Bombay, where the AIR tower is not available, the operators have asked for co-location as an interim arrangement. "All FM operators in New Delhi and Calcutta and all except one in Madras have approached us for approval, which means they are willing to take up the towers offered by AIR in these cities to start their services. We have a role in clearing the location of the tower, but since these are AIR facilities and so already approved sites, there will be no problem," information and broadcasting minister Sushma Swaraj told reporters in New Delhi. "Whether the private FM players ultimately go for AIR towers or not is their commercial decision, but it shows that the operators are willing to use the facility," Swaraj said, adding for Bombay, since the AIR infrastructure is not suitable, they are asking for co-location as an interim arrangement. As many as 16 private operators had been given a licence for FM services in December last year with a stipulation to start services within 12 months. The minister also announced that the Simcom (State I&B Ministers' Committee), which met on Thursday, has endorsed the Union I&B ministry's stand on a uniform ceiling of 60 per cent on entertainment tax and parity of the sector with information technology for consideration of concessions and local taxes. "Simcom has unanimously recommended that states should stick to a ceiling of 60 per cent for entertainment tax, with each state having freedom to fix the duty rate below or at this level. Going by the need to have parity for the trinity of all ICE sectors, the committee has also recommended the same concessions and taxes as applicable to the IT sector," Swaraj said.
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