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- The Information and Broadcasting Ministry has constituted a committee to frame rules to regulate news portals and media websites.
- The committee has been constituted to frame and suggest a regulatory framework for online media/news portals including digital broadcasting and entertainment/infotainment sites and news/media aggregators.
- The committee will be headed by the secretary of the ministry and will include officials from the ministries of home, law, telecom, the department of industrial policy and promotion, representatives of the Press Council of India (PCI), News Broadcasters Association and Indian Broadcasters Federation, and the head of government outreach portal MyGov.
- Terms of the reference (TOR) or scope of the work include to “delineate the sphere of online information dissemination which needs to be brought under regulation, on the lines applicable to print and electronic media”
- The committee will also analyse the international scenario on the existing regulatory mechanism with a view to incorporate the best practices and will recommend “appropriate policy formulation” for online media/ news portal and online content platforms, keeping in mind various norms, including extent of FDI allowed, programmes and advertising code for TV channels and those of the PCI.
