Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (India)

Organisation

• Broadcasting
• * Conditional Access System
• * Community Radio Stations
• * Prasar Bharati
• * Doordarshan
• * Akashvani
• * Broadcast Engineering Consultants India Limited
• * Uplinking / Downlinking of TV Channels
• * Content Regulation on Private TV Channels
• * Direct to Home
• * Internet Protocol Television
• * Headend-in-the-Sky
• *Digital television transition
• *Radio And Television Licence Around The World
• *Broadcasting Authority of India 1977
• Information
• *Directorate of Advertising and Visual Publicity
• * Directorate of Field Publicity
• * Photo Division
• * Publications Division
• * Research Reference and Training Division
• * Song and Drama Division
• * Office of the Registrar of Newspapers for India
• * Press Council of India
• * Press Information Bureau
• * Indian Institute of Mass Communication
• Films
• * Directorate of Film Festivals
• * Films Division
• * Central Board of Film Certification
• * Children's Film Society, India
• * Film and Television Institute of India, Pune
• * Film Certification Appellate Tribunal
• * National Film Archive of India
• * Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute
• * National Film Development Corporation

  Mandate

• News Services through All India Radio and Doordarshan for the people.
• Development of broadcasting and television.
• Import and export of films.
• Development and promotion of film industry.
• Organisation of film festivals and cultural exchanges for the purpose.
• Directorate of Advertising and visual publicity DAVP
• Handling of press relations to present the policies of Government of India and to get feedback on the Government policies.
• Administration of the Press and Registration of Books Act, 1867 in respect to newspapers.
• Dissemination of information about India within and outside the country through publications on matters of national importance.
• Research, Reference and Training to assist the media units of the Ministry to meet their responsibilities.
• Use of interpersonal communication and traditional folk art forms for information publicity campaigns on public interest issues.
• International cooperation in the field of information and mass media.

  Criticism and controversies

• Arbitrary actions taken in the past to ban television channels which ostensibly showed explicit scenes, as well as actions taken to ban general use websites like Yahoo Groups, have been criticised.
• All India Radio is the only radio broadcaster allowed to broadcast news in India, though this is likely to change with the recommendations of the TRAI.
• The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting asked the media not to air a controversial documentary by BBC about rape in India.

  List of I&B Ministers