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  • Trai head office sealed in Delhi

    Trai head office sealed in Delhi

    NEW DELHI: In what could temporarily halt industry-related work, the offices of the broadcast regulator were sealed by the Delhi authorities under a drive against illegal construction in the Capital.

    According to a TV news channel, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India’s (Trai) headquarters were sealed today for being in violation of building bylaws and having an office on Africa Avenue, which is predominantly a residential area. Under heavy police protection, the sealing team came to the Trai office and asked the employees to leave.

    The sealings against commercial establishments in residential areas of Delhi resumed this morning with officials of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) descending upon an upmarket mall in South Delhi as part of a Supreme Court-mandated clean-up drive.

    MCD officials, backed by a contingent of Delhi Police personnel, started the drive by sealing CTC Mall in Maharani Bagh near Ashram. They then sealed two other properties in nearby areas, a report by United News of India stated.
    There were no reports of any resistance from anywhere today, though traders have held the city to ransom through protests over the last fortnight.

    Yesterday, the Supreme Court-appointed monitoring committee had said sealing would start from Wednesday.

    Earlier, the apex court had directed the committee to restart sealing and prepare a schedule after consultation with the authorities after the Central government failed to come out with a clear-cut policy on commercial activities in residential areas.

  • CAS rollout: Delhi HC ‘no’ to government plea for more time

    CAS rollout: Delhi HC ‘no’ to government plea for more time

    NEW DELHI: The Indian government yet again pleaded for more time to roll out CAS — six months to be exact — but a Delhi court has refused to accede to the request asking for a final stand by the next date of hearing.

    According to early information available with Indiantelevision.com, even the broadcast regulator pleaded for four to five months time to sort out CAS-related issues like pricing of TV channels.

    The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) submitted to the Delhi High Court today that it has initiated a dialogue with the industry stakeholders on issues related to CAS and which would take few months time to complete and arrive at some consensus.

    However, the court was in no mood to listen to such pleas and fixed the next date of hearing for 19 July.

    The court observed that if the government is unable to sort out CAS matters, then it could also explore the possibility of going ahead with the rollout based on the Chennai model.

    It also said that the government has already used up three month’s time from 10 March when the first directive came to roll out CAS in Kolkata, Delhi and Mumbai within a month’s time.

    Chennai is the only city in India where CAS has been rolled out and running smoothly since 2003.

    Reference to do away with government mandated CAS was also mentioned in the court today during a hearing and reference was made of the relevant section from a draft Broadcast Bill 2006, which is being circulated amongst government organizations for feedback.

    A clutch of MSOs, including Hathway and INCablenet, had filed a case against the government on CAS in the Delhi High Court late 2004, alleging that keeping addressability in abeyance had resulted in financial losses to the petitioners.