TV channel guidelines: Throwback to command and control

In a bow to babudom and 1970s style censorship, the Union cabinet cleared on Friday a proposal empowering the information and broadcasting ministry not to renew licences of TV channels, if the ministry should deem programmes aired on them to be vulgar, obscene, anti-national et al. The pertinent question is: Can a modern 21st century government hand over a job as sensitive as media monitoring to the bureaucracy, which has its own vested interests to protect, besides having zero expertise in the subject?

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