The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (MIB) is yet to clear a proposal for separate 24-hour Doordarshan (DD) channels for each state in the Northeast.
Confirming this to Indiantelevision.com, a Prasar Bharati source said that the proposal, which has been gathering dust in the MIB for a fairly long time, had been sent to ensure greater coverage of the seven states in the Northeast.
Although DD has a 24x7 Northeast channel at present, it covers all the states with the result that not enough time is available to the programming of each state.
Although Prasar Bharati had initially proposed three more channels for the Northeast around two years ago, this had been revised to one channel per state late last year.
Indian Television Dot Com | MIB yet to clear DD's proposal on 24x7 TV channels in all NE states
Confirming this to Indiantelevision.com, a Prasar Bharati source said that the proposal, which has been gathering dust in the MIB for a fairly long time, had been sent to ensure greater coverage of the seven states in the Northeast.
Although DD has a 24x7 Northeast channel at present, it covers all the states with the result that not enough time is available to the programming of each state.
Although Prasar Bharati had initially proposed three more channels for the Northeast around two years ago, this had been revised to one channel per state late last year.
Indian Television Dot Com | MIB yet to clear DD's proposal on 24x7 TV channels in all NE states