New set of proposals on media ownership in the works, says TRAI chief

Second time in eight years that TRAI will be issuing guidelines. Comes amid the Adani-NDTV spat. Regulator had released consultation paper in April

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai), which is the regulator for both the telecom and broadcast sectors in the country, is working on a new set of recommendations on media ownership, chairman P D Vaghela said on Wednesday.

Speaking at the CII Big Picture Summit in New Delhi, Vaghela said concentration of media ownership and the challenge it posed to freedom of expression were concerns it was looking to address through the guidelines.

Incidentally, in April this year, Trai had released a consultation paper to discuss ownership issues within the media.

"The concentration of media ownership has been identified