I&B Ministry
Day 7: FM Phase III price touches Rs 827 crore in 56 cities
NEW DELHI: The cumulative provisional winning price has risen to around Rs 827 crore for 83 channels in 56 cities against their aggregate reserve price of about Rs 395 crore at the end of the seventh day of bidding for FM Phase III.
Even as 28 rounds of the e-auction ended with four more rounds today (4 August), the provisional winning prices exceeded the total reserve price of the first batch by about Rs 277.05 crore or 50.35 per cent. There was the total reserve price of Rs 550.18 crore for the first batch of 135 FM channels in 69 existing cities of Phase III.
The Auction Activity Requirement of 80 per cent set at the beginning of the auction continued to remain the same on the seventh day.
There were still no bids in as many as 13 cities on the seventh day and the demand over the price in many cities fell by up to three per cent below the aggregate demand except in Bhubaneswar where it rose to four per cent above the aggregate demand.
The Percentage Price Increment (in INR) applicable for the Next Clock Round was five per cent in Mumbai, Bengaluru, Ahmedabad, Amritsar, Guwahati, Rourkela, Jaipur, Kolhapur, Nagpur, Nasik, Patna, and Rajkot and eight per cent in Bhubaneswar.
As was reported earlier by Indiantelevision.com, the highest Provisional winning price – the same as the Clock round price at the start of the twenty-eighth round – was in Delhi at Rs 123.15 crore, followed by Mumbai at Rs 87.81 crore with both showing marginal increase compared to yesterday.
Among cities recording more than Rs 10 crore, it rose sizeably in Bengaluru to Rs 80.64 crore, Ahmedabad to Rs 42.68 crore, Chennai to Rs 37.72 crore, Patna to Rs 17.04 crore, Jaipur to Rs 12.96 crore and marginally in Chandigarh to Rs 16.24 crore.
Pune at Rs 32.45 crore, Hyderabad at Rs 18 crore, Lucknow at Rs 14 crore and Cochin at Rs 10.21 crore remained static.
I&B Ministry
MeitY & Reliance Foundation launch e-SafeHER cyber training for Women
Programme aims to train one million rural women in cyber safety over three years
NEW DELHI: The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology has partnered with Reliance Foundation and C-DAC Hyderabad to launch ‘e-SafeHER’, a nationwide cyber security awareness programme aimed at empowering one million women across rural India.
Anchored under the Information Security Education and Awareness Programme, the initiative will focus on building digital confidence and safe online practices among women who are increasingly using digital platforms for financial transactions, livelihoods and essential services.
The programme will be rolled out through a community-led model, with training delivered via women’s self-help groups and grassroots networks. C-DAC Hyderabad will develop and localise training content, while Reliance Foundation will drive on-ground implementation using its rural outreach platforms.
Speaking on the launch, Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology secretary S Krishnan said, “e-SafeHER is an exciting opportunity to bring together knowledge and collaboration to build a cyber secure Bharat. Through this initiative, women from even the remotest regions will be empowered to participate safely in the digital ecosystem.”
Echoing this, Reliance Foundation director Isha Ambani said the initiative aims to equip women with the skills needed to navigate the online world safely. She added that the goal is to enable one million “Cyber Sakhis” who can confidently adopt digital tools to improve their lives and livelihoods.
The programme will begin with pilot training in Madhya Pradesh and Odisha, before scaling nationwide through a phased approach. It will use multilingual content, audio-visual modules and blended learning formats to ensure accessibility and engagement.
Designed for long-term impact, e-SafeHER will be integrated into existing digital literacy and women’s empowerment programmes, avoiding the need for parallel infrastructure. The initiative also aims to drive measurable behavioural change, from improved awareness of cyber risks to safer digital transactions.
By combining policy, technology and grassroots reach, the programme looks to bridge not just the digital divide, but the digital safety gap, ensuring that inclusion goes hand in hand with security.
