It refers to welcome decision to merge Rajya Sabha TV and Lok Sabha TV to a unified Sansad TV. It will save huge funds in running two TV channels with same purpose. Direct telecast of live proceedings of two Houses of Parliament can be done according to importance of proceedings being conducted in two Houses of Parliament. However excerpts of proceedings of two Houses can be shown at prime time not only on Sansad TV but also on various Doordarshan channels.
Same merger-plan can be considered for too many Doordrashan channels according to viewership-statistics of Doordarshan channels. There may be several Doordarshan channels which may not have significant viewership. Continuing with such Doordarshan channels is waste of public-money.
Union Ministry of Information and Broadcast should consider idea of making at least half-an-hour daily on prime-hours for every private news-channel to compulsorily telecast simultaneous news-bulletins and Parliament News (Sansad Samachaar) from Doordarshan, because usually private news-channels provide news-contents on their personal ideology and to achieve more and more TRP rating.
SUBHASH CHANDRA AGRAWAL