[icernet] Govt may reconsider regulator's power in Convergence Bill

[Arul Selvan]

Communications Minister Pramod Mahajan today said the Centre was 'not in 
a hurry' to place the Communications Convergence Bill, 2002 before 
Parliament and may reconsider powers to be delegated to the regulatory 
body proposed in the Bill. "We are not in a hurry to place the Bill. The 
Parliamentary Standing Committee has submitted its report and lot of 
issues have been raised...we will take a decision on these by May next 
year," he told reporters here. "The basic issue is whether the super 
regulator, who will control both the content and carriage of 
information, is desirable or not," Mahajan, who was here to inaugurate 
the 'Infocom 2002' Conference and Exhibition, said.


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