The government on Monday said the Communication Convergence Bill covering a wide gamut of broadcasting services is aimed at setting up a regulator to promote, facilitate and develop the content of communication.
Asserting that there was no ad hocism in government's broadcasting policy, Information and Broadcasting Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said the standing committee had given its suggestions on the Communication Convergence Bill, which would be brought up for consideration in the Parliament shortly.
"The Communication Convergence Bill when enacted would set up a single regulator to promote, facilitate and develop in an orderly manner the carriage and content of communication (including broadcasting telecommunication and multimedia)," he said.
"There is no ad hocism in our policy," Prasad said.
On various initiatives taken by the government in broadcasting related to the telecommunication sector, he said these include changes made in the uplinking policy of 2000 followed by the policy for foreign investment in news channel uplinked from India; the amendments in the Cable Act at various times, issue of DTH guidelines in 2001 and the decision to permit private FM stations.
Of late, the government has set up a committee to make recommendations for Phase II FM broadcasting, he added.
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