India may soon become a digital communications hub

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The Information and Broadcasting Ministry is considering steps to make India a teleport hub to send and receive huge quantities of signals and data through satellites, enabling the country become a major centre for digital communication like Hong Kong and Singapore.

The ministry will soon hold consultations with the media and entertainment industry to discuss modalities, challenges and roadmap for making India a teleport hub, Uday Kumar Varma, secretary at I&B ministry, said on Monday.

The empowered group of ministers is looking into some of the grey areas in the auction of 839 new FM radio stations across over 290 towns and cities in the country. "We hope to complete the auction of the first tranche of the stations by the end of the financial year," he said.

Varma said the government would set up a film commission to introduce a single-window clearance system for shooting in India. The I&B ministry has signed an agreement with the Tourism Ministry to work towards promoting India as a global film-shooting destination.

He said the proposed National Film Heritage Mission (NFHM) will undertake frame-by-frame picture and sound restoration of more than 2,500 films.

To fight piracy, the government plans to launch an all-encompassing multi-media campaign during the 12th Plan period involving all stakeholders of film and music industries. The government would also set up centres of excellence to produce technical professionals under public-private partnership with a focus on animation, gaming and VFX industries.

The first such centre would come at Mohali by the end of this financial year. The government also plans to restructure National Broadcasting Corporation by enabling Prasar Bharati to recruit fresh talents and restructuring its financial flows.


With Inputs from ET
 
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