Written by Jitendra Kumar Sinha
English translation by Kumari Swati.
November 12. Patna : Online news portal will be under the purview of Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. The Central Government has issued notifications related to bringing online content, film and news under the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. The output notification states that the government wants to regulate online news content. For this, the Government had constituted a 10-member committee comprising the Secretaries of Information and Broadcasting, Law, Home, IT and the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion, CEO of My Village, Press Council of India, News Broadcasters Association and Indian Broadcasters Association and was directed to recommend appropriate policies for online media, news portals and online content platforms. The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting has framed a rule to regulate the online news portal and media website and has also issued a notification. According to the notification, now the online news portal, online content provider will come under the purview of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting.
The central government had earlier advocated in a case in the Supreme Court that regulation of online mediums is more important than TV. Now the government has taken the step of bringing news or content through online mediums under the ministry. A disputed order to terminate the recognition of journalists regarding ‘fake news’ is already issued.
