Delhi Speaker for relaxing licence norms for legislature TVs

Delhi Assembly Speaker Ram Niwas Goel, who has proposed to set up a TV channel for the House, has asked for a mechanism under which every legislature which applies for a licence to set up such a network is granted the same "as a matter of right" and without imposition of I&B ministry pre-conditions.
According to Goel, since the proposed channel will be on the lines of Lok Sabha tv and Rajya Sabha tv, there should not be "any problem" in granting licences to them.
He made the remarks at the 78th Conference of Presiding Officers of Legislative Bodies in India in Gandhinagar.

He told the delegates that the Delhi Assembly has applied for a licence to start a television channel to be totally owned and run by it.
"He appealed to the Speaker of Lok Sabha that as the head of POs Conference, she initiates measures to secure a mechanism wherein every legislature which applies for licence automatically gets it as a matter of right. The I&B ministry pre-conditions need to be scrapped," a Delhi government statement quoted him as saying.
He also demanded from the Centre that a Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha be made as the "smooth functioning" of Opposition in legislative bodies of India is impossible without it. The position of LoP in Parliament has been unoccupied since mid-2014.

He went on to the cite the "example" of Delhi Assembly where Vijender Gupta of BJP, which has three seats out of 70, has been given the status of LoP.

Goel also sought the help of Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan in getting necessary clearances from the Centre in making legislatures paperless through 'e-vidhan project' for which Delhi Assembly is one of the applicants.
He claimed that the Arunachal Pradesh Governor's role in the recent political developments in the state amounted to "encroachment" into rights of the legislature that were guaranteed under Constitution.
"Recalling that Sarkaria Commission had proposed consultation with chief minister of the state, Vice President of India and Speaker, Lok Sabha, he said that there has to be a fair mechanism to appoint Governors to avoid subversion of Constitution by Governors as is witnessed in Arunachal Pradesh," he claimed in the statement.