‘More facilitation than regulation’: Govt on OTT under I&B Ministry

The Centre on Wednesday said that the move to bring online news and over-the-top (OTT) platforms under the ambit of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (I&B) was to ensure that content along all platforms is handled by a single ministry, while the platforms themselves are under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology.

Speaking at the CII Big Picture Summit, I&B Secretary Amit Khare said, “(The) idea behind the change, which was done in the month of November, was to bring content at one place — that is Ministry of I&B, and platforms at another place, that is Ministry of IT.”