New Delhi, Jan. 31 -- The Parliamentary panel on communications and information technology led by Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) lawmaker Nishikant Dubey will recommend that the Union government form an umbrella media regulatory body, Media Council of India, to regulate print, television and online media, functionaries aware of the development said on Friday.

According to a senior member of the panel, an umbrella body is needed given that the same content appears across platforms. "You work for a paper. Your articles in the paper comes under the purview of the Press Council of India. But when the same article appears online edition of the paper, there is no regulatory mechanism."

Currently, two different bodies oversee print and electroni...