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DELHI: Applications of a total of 99 television channels by
59 companies were at different stages of scrutiny in 31 July
last for permission to uplink from within the country.
Information
and Broadcasting ministry sources said no time frame could
be given about issue of permission to these channels as they
also required inter-ministerial comments.
According
to Ministry sources, a total of 31 private satellite TV channels
have been permitted to uplink during the present calendar
year up to July 31. In comparison, a total of 25 and 37 channels
had been allowed to uplink in 2005 and 2006 respectively.
Earlier
in May, Information and Broadcasting minister Priyaranjan
Dasmunsi had told Parliament that a total of 222 private satellite
television channels had been given permission to uplink from
India as on 30 April apart from six channels uplinked from
abroad which have been permitted to downlink in India. In
addition to this, 54 foreign TV channels had been provisionally
permitted to downlink in India.
At
that time, proposals of 71 private satellite channels from
52 different companies were awaiting permission to uplink
from within the country.
The
Uplinking Guidelines issued in November 2005 prescribe two
categories of channels: news and current affairs, or non-news
and current affairs.
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