The information & broadcasting ministry and the Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) are at loggerheads over an exercise to review the print media policy with regard to foreign involvement.
Both the ministry and the board are interested in setting up their own committees to review a 1955 cabinet note, which does not allow any foreign media house other than Readers Digest to set up an establishment in the country.
The government had last year announced that it was not averse to review the cabinet note and had asked for an expert committee to be set up to look into the issue.
But nothing has been done since that announcement, as the FIPB is interested in undertaking the exercise of reviewing the print media policy vis-
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