[icernet] Uplinking imbroglio

[Arul Selvan]

  The Cabinet cannot take a policy decision and have it effected for any 
sector or anybody, even if the new Information and Broadcasting Minister 
Ravi Shankar Prasad is keen to be done with the uplinking issue as soon 
as possible. However, there are two schools of thought here, too. One 
says the Cabinet decision on uplinking need not go to Parliament, as it 
is a remodification of an existing policy that anybody can uplink from 
India after having got governmental permission. Good for Star and the 
others, then.The other school of thought opines that since the existing 
policy on uplinking is being changed, and that too in a major way, 
envisaging the capping of foreign investment in news channels, it needs 
to be referred to Parliament.

What does the law say? In simple language, it states that any Indian 
channel can uplink content from India via VSNL or directly to a 
satellite. How do foreign channels such as the BBC and CNN uplink? These 
uplink to a satellite from where content is bounced to another satellite 
and then downlinked at London or CNN headquarters in the US, from where 
the content is packaged differently and uplinked again, to be beamed 
back to India via a PanAmSat satellite.

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