Senior Citizen’s Savings (Fourth Amendment) Scheme, 2023

The Senior Citizen’s Savings Scheme, 2019 provides retirement benefits to citizens who has attained the age of fifty-five years or more but less than sixty years, and who has retired on superannuation or otherwise on the date of opening of an account under this Scheme.

Ministry of Information and Broadcasting approves Comprehensive “Digital Advertisement Policy, 2023″

The Policy will enable CBC to empanel agencies and organisations in the OTT and Video on Demand Space. CBC will also be able to leverage the growing number of listeners to Podcasts and Digital Audio platforms through empanelment of Digital Audio platforms. Apart from rationalising its process of empanelling Internet Websites, CBC now for the first time will be able to channelize its public service campaign messages through Mobile Applications too.

Ministry of Information and Broadcasting Proposes Broadcasting Services (Regulation) Bill, 2023

The Bill streamlines regulatory processes, extends its purview to cover the Over-the-Top(OTT) content and digital news, and introduces contemporary definitions and provisions for emerging technologies. It seeks to provide for Content Evaluation Committees and a Broadcast Advisory Council for self-regulation, different program and advertisement code for different Broadcasting Network Operators, Accessibility measures for persons with disabilities, and statutory penalties, etc.