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Committee to regulate News portals
April 12 , 2018
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- The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (I&B) has constituted 10-member committee to regulate online portals, including news websites, entertainment sites and media aggregators.
- The committee will include secretaries of departments of Home, Electronics and Information and Technology, Legal Affairs and Industrial Policy and Promotion.
- The CEO of MyGov and representative of Press Council of India (PCI) and National Broadcasters’ Association (NBA) will also be part of committee.
- The committee will look to bring online information dissemination under regulation.
- At present both print and electronic media are regulated but online media (as well as entertainment sites) does not come under any regulatory mechanism.
- The content telecast on television channels are regulated in terms of programme and advertisement codes under Cable Television Networks Rules, 1994.
- Similarly, autonomous body Press Council of India (PCI) regulates the print media.
Need for Regulation
- The social media platforms which are widely used for online information dissemination comes under purview of Department of Telecom, Ministry of Communications and IT.
- It doesn’t fall in domain of Information & Broadcasting ministry, which looks at news, entertainment, infotainment, films and music.
- Regulation of online news content had started because Government felt that there should be some mechanism to check spread of misinformation (fake news) on the internet.
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