Lok Sabha passed a Bill to amend the Cable Television Networks Regulation Act

The Lok Sabha on 13 December 2011 unanimously passed a Bill to further amend the Cable Television Networks Regulation Act, 1995. It replaces a Presidential Ordinance of 25 October, 2011.  As per the amendments, there will be a check on objectionable contents. Doordarshan will be able to provide more free-on-air channels in the DTH mode to audiences across the country. Cable TV operators violating the provisions of the Bill will face penalty. The legislation will reduce dependence on the television rating points, TRP. By 2014, the entire cable network will be digitized. 

Those Cable operators who will violate the Cable Television Network Regulation Act,1995 Government will have the right to consider about the continuity of the Licence of those cable operators. Till date, this kind of provision was not in existence in the form of Act.