Show cause notice issued to two community radio channels

The Information and Broadcasting ministry has issued show cause notices to two Community Radio channels last month, whose content was prima facie found to be in violation of the norms.
This information was shared by Minister of State for I&B Rajyavardhan Rathore in a written reply to a question in the Rajya Sabha.
According to the Minister's reply, the content of the programmes broadcast by these Community Radio stations was found to be in violation of certain clauses of the Grant of Permission Agreement (GOPA) and also a provision of the AIR code.
"Therefore, show cause notices dated 10.02.2016 were issued to both the community radio stations," Rathore said in his reply.

In a written reply to anorther question, Rathore said that there are sanctioned posts of Special Correspondents of All India Radio and Doordarshan belonging to Indian Information Service Group 'A' in Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and UAE only.
"Earlier there was another post of Special Correspondent at Kabul, Afghanistan which is proposed to be shifted at Beijing, China, subject to clearances from other nodal Ministries of the Government," Rathore said.