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  • Rs 200 mn allocated for free DTH in border areas

    NEW DELHI: An allocation of Rs 200 million has been made for setting up direct-to-home receiver sets of Doordarshan’s FreeDish in tribal, remote and border areas, the Parliament has been told.

    Minister of state for information and broadcasting Rajyavardhan Rathre said 30,000 DTH receiver sets would be distributed in consultation with state governments. He said that DTH receiver sets had been distributed in the past by Doordarshan in selected areas.

    The question in the Parliament related to distributing free DTH connections in Naxal-hit areas.

    An earlier separate report stated that Prasar Bharati may be distributing for free around a million direct- to-home (DTH) set-top boxes in Naxal-hit areas of India.

    Besides a dedicated DD channel for Chhattisgarh, then union minister of information and broadcasting M Venkaiah Naidu had stated that a high-power transmitter would be commissioned in Jagdalpur (Bastar district headquarter) which would beam signal of AIR Jagdalpur to a radius of 200 km.

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  • Rs 100 million added to DD & N-E regional units’ allocation

    Rs 100 million added to DD & N-E regional units’ allocation

    NEW DELHI: Doordarshan News and 30 regional news units (RNU) have been allocated an additional Rs 100.8 million for the current year, taking the total allocation to about Rs 474 million for expenses that include payment to stringers and to the news agencies — United News of India and Press Trust of India.

    Of this, Prasar Bharati has sanctioned a sum of Rs 620,000 for the news agencies which includes an additional Rs 260,000 approved earlier this week.

    Thus, the budget for DD News has gone up to Rs 240 million with the additional Rs 54 million.

    The RNUs getting additional budget from the north-eastern states are — Agartala, Aizwal, Guwahati, Itanagar, Imphal, Kohima and Shillong. Jammu, Leh and Srinagar in Jammu and Kashmir will also benefit.

    The other RNUs are — Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Bhopal, Bhubaneswar, Chandigarh, Chennai, Hissar, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Jallandhar, Kolkata, Lucknow, Mumbai, Panaji, Patna, Raipur, Ranchi, Shimla, Thiruvananthapuram and Vijaywada.

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  • Rs 100 million added to DD & N-E regional units’ allocation

    Rs 100 million added to DD & N-E regional units’ allocation

    NEW DELHI: Doordarshan News and 30 regional news units (RNU) have been allocated an additional Rs 100.8 million for the current year, taking the total allocation to about Rs 474 million for expenses that include payment to stringers and to the news agencies — United News of India and Press Trust of India.

    Of this, Prasar Bharati has sanctioned a sum of Rs 620,000 for the news agencies which includes an additional Rs 260,000 approved earlier this week.

    Thus, the budget for DD News has gone up to Rs 240 million with the additional Rs 54 million.

    The RNUs getting additional budget from the north-eastern states are — Agartala, Aizwal, Guwahati, Itanagar, Imphal, Kohima and Shillong. Jammu, Leh and Srinagar in Jammu and Kashmir will also benefit.

    The other RNUs are — Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Bhopal, Bhubaneswar, Chandigarh, Chennai, Hissar, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Jallandhar, Kolkata, Lucknow, Mumbai, Panaji, Patna, Raipur, Ranchi, Shimla, Thiruvananthapuram and Vijaywada.

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