India, March 27 -- The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Communications and Information Technology has suggested that in order to improve the way laws controlling print, broadcast, and internet media are implemented, the government should establish a media council. The committee's report on the grant demand for 2025-2026 included this proposal, and it was delivered to the Lok Sabha on March 21.

In the framework of the Broadcasting Services (Regulation) Bill, 2023, the committee's suggestion would enable the government to control over-the-top (OTT) broadcasting services such as Netflix and Amazon Prime.

The merging of the Department of Telecommunications (DoT), the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), and the Min...