India to monitor TV content

Ambika Soni, India's information and broadcasting minister, has revealed plans to set up an independent body to monitor television content, reports the Times of India.

The minister disclosed this during the Question Hour last week and said the independent mechanism will monitor content on TV.

She was reported as saying: “We are on the threshold of announcing a self-regulatory mechanism to monitor content on TV”. This body would look at complaints from viewers on objectionable content being aired.

According to FV Current Waves, due to growing vulgarity on TV shows, the government has been forced to develop such a mechanism.

The mechanism will have a panel representing the former judge and various leading names from different fields of the society.

Total Family reveals that presently, there is no censor board for television and all the “content was regulated by the Cable Regulatory Act with some up-linking and down-linking criteria for the broadcasters”.