Govt sets up committee to monitor CAS

NEW DELHI: With the D-day for CAS barely a month away, the government on Tuesday constituted a committee to monitor the process of its implementation, availability of set top boxes (STBs) and resolution of the issue of pricing of the channels’ access that is fair to the consumers.
The first meeting of the high-powered committee headed by Vijay Singh, additional secretary in the I&B ministry, is slated to take place in Mumbai.The directive to the committee by I&B minister Ravi Shankar Prasad is to meet every week and review the progress. The next stage of the all-in exercise would be consulting consumer groups, official sources said.
Other members of the committee are Peter Mukherjea (Star), Subhash Chandra (Zee), Kunal Dasgupta (Sony), G. Krishnan (Aajtak), Raghav Behl (TV 18). There will also be representatives of multi-service operators — Hathway, RPG Telecom, Siticable and Sun TV. Independent operators would also find representation. This being a national level exercise, representatives of state governments are also being included.