In order to monitor content by private networks, the Narendra Modi government spent over Rs 9 crore in the last financial year to maintain equipment and pay salaries at the Electronic Media Monitoring Centre.
Responding to an unstarred question by BJP Jaipur MP Ramcharan Bohra, who had sought details of the monitoring centre set up by the government to look at television content, Union information and broadcasting minister Anurag Thakur told the Lok Sabha on Tuesday that all programmes telecast on private satellite TV channels are required to adhere to the programme code and advertising code laid down under the Cable Television Networks (Regulation) Act, 1995.
