News Broadcasting
MIB to meet NBA soon on Content Code
NEW DELHI: The Ministry of Information & Broadcasting will soon call the News Broadcasters Association (NBA) for a meeting on the issue of the Code of Content as well as the redressal mechanism. The NBA had submitted these two documents to the Delhi High Court.
Sources said that the NBA had submitted the documents to the court on the last date of hearing on 26 March.
The Court had earlier asked the MIB to hold discussions with the Indian Broadcasting Foundation (IBF) and the Indian Media Group (IMG) regarding the issue of content code, acting on the basis of a writ filed by a person aggrieved by a sting operation.
The court, incidentally, had not named NBA among those to be consulted before the MIB stated its position on the Content Code. The ministry had completed the consultations, leaving the NBA out.
Now the ministry will meet the NBA also, as the Association’s documents is part of the court proceedings, sources said.
Meanwhile, the responses of the IBF and IMG had already been taken before the MIB filed the document with the court. Only NBA will be consulted in this latest round, sources said.
